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JNS.org – Syracuse University’s Student Association tabled a resolution on Monday to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism after several members expressed concern regarding the definition’s language.
SA president Justine Hastings, along with others, said antisemitism should not be equated with anti-Zionism and worried about how the IHRA definition affects Palestinian rights.
“Due to the widespread critique and the wording used by the IHRA and its implications on limiting academic freedom, and potentially doing harm to Palestinians and questions of Palestinian human rights, I personally did not feel it was SA’s place to endorse this definition,” Hastings said after the meeting, according to the university’s student-run publication
SA tables resolution condemning anti-Semitism over concerns with definition
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Student Association indefinitely tabled a resolution condemning anti-Semitism on Monday because several members expressed concerns over the bill’s definition of anti-Semitism.
The bill, which assembly member Noah Wagner introduced last Monday, would adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism within SA. Members of SA, including President Justine Hastings, were concerned that the bill’s language equated anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism, or opposition to the Jewish movement for self-determination in Israel.
“Due to the widespread critique and the wording used by the IHRA and its implications on limiting academic freedom, and potentially doing harm to Palestinians and questions of Palestinian human rights, I personally did not feel it was SA’s place to endorse this definit
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