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Residents press Select Board to amend proclamation language on antisemitism definition
Summary
Multiple public commenters urged the Select Board to amend the town proclamation on antisemitism to clarify that examples in the IHRA/IRA framework should not be used to restrict criticism of Israel; callers recommended the Jerusalem Declaration as an alternative and asked for a revised proclamation rather than only meeting notes.
During public comment the Select Board heard repeated calls to revise language tied to the town’s proclamation denouncing antisemitism and to clarify whether examples in the IHRA/IRA framework are intended to be binding.
A commenter (speaker 9) argued that the IRA examples are often used to suppress criticism of Israel and asked the board to ‘explicitly reject…
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