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Special commission debates IHRA, Jerusalem Declaration and tone of prefatory statement for final report
Summary
The commission spent a substantial portion of the meeting focused on the draft report's prefatory statement, including whether to anchor the document to the IHRA working definition of antisemitism and how (or whether) to note alternative definitions such as the Jerusalem Declaration.
The commission spent a substantial portion of the meeting focused on the draft report's prefatory statement, including whether to anchor the document to the IHRA working definition of antisemitism and how (or whether) to note alternative definitions such as the Jerusalem Declaration.
"I would suggest that we remove the final sentence that refers to definitions that are not included in The US National Strategy to Counter Anti Semitism," Commissioner David Friedman said, urging caution about naming alternative definitions that could be used in bad faith. Friedman and others argued IHRA serves as a…
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