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Defining Antisemitism or 'Jew-Hatred'

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In 2016 the International Holocaust Remembrance Committee adopted the following definition of Antisemitism: https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism

 

“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”  

 

This definition has since been adopted by many US States, the US State Department and a growing list of universities and other entities.  Examples of what is (and is not) antisemitism under this definition include:

 

  1. Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion.

  2. Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective — such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions.

  3. Accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group, or even for acts committed by non-Jews.

  4. Denying the fact, scope, mechanisms (e.g. gas chambers) or intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of National Socialist Germany and its supporters and accomplices during World War II (the Holocaust).

  5. Accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.

  6. Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations.

  7. Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.

  8. Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.

  9. Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g., claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize Israel or Israelis.

  10. Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.

  11. Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.


However, criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic.


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