Adopting the IHRA Definition of “Antisemitism”: A Brief Overview of What this Means and Entails by Hanzala Ali

In the last few years, there have been concentrated efforts in Europe and North America to make institutions adopt International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of “antisemitism”1. Though the calls have been only to adopt the “definition” (just the definition), the “definition” serves as synechdoche for the guidance document that accompanies it even when there’s a lack of formal position(s) on the guidance document in these states. It has deservedly created an outcry. This beckons us to look closely into the issue. This paper is an attempt to take a brief but hopefully, a succinct overview of the debate surrounding it and lasting implications of attempts to adopt it.

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