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LONDON: Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have joined more than 100 human rights groups in telling the UN not to adopt or endorse the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism.

60 human and civil rights organizations on Tuesday released a joint open letter urging the United Nations not to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. Signatories to Tuesday’s letter include the Palestinian NGOs al-Haq, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, and Defense for Children International - Palestine – groups that

60 human rights organisations have urged the United Nations not to adopt the controversial and inaccurate definition of anti-Semitism created by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)...

Dear UN Secretary-General António Guterres and Under Secretary-General Miguel Ángel Moratinos: Our coalition of 60 civil society organizations is writing to you to voice our strong support for the United Nations’ commitment to combatting antisemitism in line with international human rights standards. Antisemitism is a pernicious ideology that poses real harm to Jewish communities around the world and requires meaningful action to combat it. Our organizations call on world leaders to condemn ...

LONDON: A group of 60 human and civil rights groups have written to the UN asking it to respect the human rights of all people, including Palestinians and their supporters, as part of its efforts to tackle antisemitism.

A letter to UN secretary-general says the definition is often used to wrongly label criticism of Israel as anti-Semitic.

From the blog of Steve Sheffey at The Times of Israel

(RNS) — A 2016 definition has lent itself to a range of uses — some positive, others not so much. 

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Get email notification for articles from Ben Samuels Follow May. 4, 2021 7:10 PM WASHINGTON – Several of the leading organizations in the American-Jewish establishment have begun to fight back against efforts to incorporate new definitions in the U.S. government’s fight against antisemitism, appealing directly to the Democratic lawmakers pushing the move as the Biden administration prepares to appoint a special envoy on antisemitism. While the lawmakers do not explicitly reject the curren...