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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. 

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, A caricature of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump published in The New York Times international edition on April 25, 2019, which the paper later acknowledged 'included anti-Semitic tropes.' (Raoul Wootliff/Times of Israel) Two newly proposed definitions of antise...

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 current definition based on the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition, which was...