1/ #Harvard just adopted the #IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) definition of #antisemitism for the purpose of campus rules on harassment and discrimination.
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/01/harvard-settles-antisemitism-lawsuits
If you're new to these definitional difficulties, there are many prominent and non-equivalent definitions of antisemitism, and the debates about them can be bitter.
I'm a Harvard employee of Jewish descent who lost family in the Holocaust, and I'm not happy with the recent decision.
The IHRA definition (2016) is not careful to distinguish criticism of #Jews from criticism of #Israel. On the contrary, most of its 11 examples of antisemitism deliberately mix the two.
https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism
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https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/01/harvard-settles-antisemitism-lawsuits
If you're new to these definitional difficulties, there are many prominent and non-equivalent definitions of antisemitism, and the debates about them can be bitter.
I'm a Harvard employee of Jewish descent who lost family in the Holocaust, and I'm not happy with the recent decision.
The IHRA definition (2016) is not careful to distinguish criticism of #Jews from criticism of #Israel. On the contrary, most of its 11 examples of antisemitism deliberately mix the two.
https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism
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What is antisemitism?
With the IHRA working definition of antisemitism, the IHRA built international consensus around an answer to the question, what does antisemitism mean?IHRA
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Yours,
E Eu C Asian Jew who help SHUT THE VIETNAM WAR DOWN.
PS. I repeat. DON'T BE POLITE OR THEY'LL JUST SHIT ON YOU.
CC @yogthos
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