Miguel Afonso Caetano"It’s a shame that definitions of antisemitism are being weaponized as a way to attack legitimate criticism of Israel, because antisemitism is one of the worst ideological scourges our species holds. Given the hideous history of the treatment of Jews in the world, culminating in the unfathomable act of evil that was the Holocaust, we must always be vigilant against anti-Jewish bigotry. The Municipal Action Index is on solid ground when it recommends hosting Jewish cultural events and teaching Jewish history to children, and the IHRA identifies plenty of genuine examples of antisemitism like “making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective.” But it’s clear that a lot of this is about trying to silence those who are rightly critical of Israel for its mass killing of Palestinians, not about antisemitism.
There would be nothing wrong with adopting a “working definition” of antisemitism if it confined itself to clear examples of actual antisemitism. But the IHRA definition is badly in need of revision. It needs to expunge “examples” that are not cases of antisemitism. And until it is revised (“working” implies provisional, after all), nobody should support the use of this definition and should instead stick to the perfectly serviceable definition “bigotry against Jewish people.”"
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/aoc-and-the-question-of-defining-antisemitism
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