The embattled Columbia College within the US introduced formally adopting the definition of anti-Semitism promoted by the Worldwide Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), which classifies criticism of the state of Israel as anti-Semitic.
A large description of anti-semitism on IHRA’s web site contains “focusing on of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity,” and “denying the Jewish folks their proper to self-determination, eg, by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavour.”
In March, the Trump administration issued 9 calls for to Columbia College earlier than discussing lifting the cancellation of $400m in federal funding, together with that the college undertake the IHRA definition of antisemitism.
Lecturers and members of the Jewish neighborhood criticised the definition as conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism.
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