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But to “The Progressive Israel Network,” a hodgepodge of organizations including J Street and T’ruah
, this was intolerable. These organizations insisted that the IHRA definition of antisemitism “silences criticism of Israel” on college campuses, and is therefore inappropriate.
That is false. The definition specifically states:
“Criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic.”
When we discuss adopting IHRA on campus, we are not promoting a McCarthyist program that cracks down on anybody who speaks ill of Israel. We are promoting a resource for student organizations and faculty to help them understand that forcing a Jewish student to resign from student government because of her or his Zionism, or holding a BDS resolution vote in which pro-Israel students are called Nazis and racists, are acts of antisemitism.