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“Jewish members of Congress should know better,” the Jewish groups wrote to Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
One Jewish student criticized the decision not to name offending schools in the report.
The only thing missing? Democrat co-sponsors, said Daniel Pollak of the ZOA.
“Antisemitism is in the DNA of CAIR,” author of the report Steve Emerson said of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
“I’m disappointed and appalled that CAIR—an organization that has peddled antisemitic tropes and has ties to extremist, anti-Israel groups—played any role in the U.S. national strategy to counter antisemitism,” Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) told JNS.
A draft of the plan that JNS reviewed gives equal weight to the IHRA, Nexus and Jerusalem Declaration definitions of antisemitism.
No matter what happens, SUNY “did not serve us in time, or it did not consider our well-being and the urgency of the matter,” one of two student complainants told JNS.
Reactions are proving mixed; while groups finally have something to see, some are disappointed with the inclusion of a progressive alternative to the widely accepted definiton put forth by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
The strategy includes 100 actions the administration will take “to raise awareness of antisemitism and its threat to American democracy, protect Jewish communities, reverse the normalization of antisemitism and build cross-community solidarity.”
The two women leaders from Croatia also want the public to know about the group’s working definitions on Holocaust denial and anti-Roma discrimination.
A definition that suggests it isn’t necessarily antisemitic to apply double standards to Israel is part of the current plan, according to a news report.
Ariel Gelblung of the Simon Wiesenthal Center said the adoption is significant because it comes from the congresses of governments across the continent.
