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Get email notification for articles from Jonathan Shamir Follow Apr. 18, 2021 7:24 PM Last month, two new definitions of antisemitism – The Nexus Document and the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (JDA) – sought to challenge the widely-accepted International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. Both documents focus on the area that is increasingly dividing global Jewry: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its relationship to antisemitism. The IHRA working definition has been adopted by governments and institutions the world over, including the U.S. State...

143 shares Activists outside a meeting of the Labour National Executive Committee in London, with signs protesting the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, September 4, 2018. (Stefan Rousseau/PA Images via Getty Images/ via JTA /SUE) JTA — A group of liberal US Jewish scholars has offered a definition of anti-Semitism that grants more leeway to Israel criticism than the one that Jewish groups are pressing governments to adopt. The key difference between the definition posted Tuesday by the Nexus Task Force, a project of the Knight Program in Media and Religion at the University of Southe...

The new definition could serve as an alternative to one from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance that has been promoted by several major American Jewish groups who want Biden to use it to enforce federal anti-discrimination laws, although the group behind the new document said it is not intended to be used in IHRA’s place. “The big mistake people are making about IHRA is that it’s the final word,” said Jonathan Jacoby, who directs the Nexus group, “and there are many words and perspectives.” The IHRA definition has been endorsed by the American Jewish Committee, Jewis...