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“We hope that it can serve as an easily adaptable reference point to address the needs of all vulnerable communities on the receiving end of online harm,” said the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.
“We can’t fight what we can’t define,” said Gavriela Geller, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Bureau, American Jewish Committee in Kansas.
“The question of Jerusalem is not a political matter. It is a biblical issue,” says Knesset member Gila Gamliel.
“We must promote civil discourse and a high-quality, inclusive cultural education that lifts up marginalized communities rather than teaching antagonistic values in our public schools,” said Rep. Josh Gottheimer.
865 entities have adopted IHRA anti-Semitism definition since 2016, reveals new report
The report by the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University and the Combat Anti-Semitism Movement “demonstrates clearly that there is already a steady consensus … created by academics, experts and activists.”
“It’s very important that our understanding of the issue reflects cultural realities,” said Troy A. Miller, CEO of National Religious Broadcasters. “An accurate and contemporary definition of anti-Semitism helps us to recognize and combat this form of hatred wherever it emerges.”
Biggest group of Christian broadcasters adopts IHRA definition of anti-Semitism
National Religious Broadcasters is a nonpartisan, international association of communicators with 1,100 member organizations.
Georgia House of Representatives votes to adopt IHRA definition of anti-Semitism
The resolution, which was sponsored by six lawmakers, in part requires state agencies and departments to consider the IHRA definition “when determining whether an alleged act was motivated by discriminatory anti-Semitic intent.”
The Baker administration also released its 2020 Massachusetts Hate Crimes Report, compiled from data submitted by law-enforcement agencies across the state.
Jacob Baime, Israel on Campus CEO, told JNS that the Jewish community “is tired of trying to explain and justify what does and does not constitute hate and discrimination towards Jews.”
The move comes after anti-Semitic fliers were distributed last month to hundreds of homes in there and in Miami Beach.
Holocaust historian and Emory University professor Deborah Lipstadt dismissed partisanship, saying she has called out anti-Semitism on both sides of the aisle. She did acknowledge that some of her posts had not been “as nuanced” as she would have liked.
