Why The Definition Of Anti-Semitism Does Not Belong In The Hands Of Israel’s Enemies
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Why The Definition Of Anti-Semitism Does Not Belong In The Hands Of Israel’s Enemies

Mark Goldfeder

As Jews around the world commemorated Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) last week, 100+ organizations signed onto a Human Rights Watch letter asking the United Nations not to use the most accepted definition of anti-Semitism, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition, as part of its efforts to make sure that Never Again isn’t just an empty phrase. 

In the international theater of the absurd in which words have little meaning and terrorist organizations (including several of the signatories) are free to brand themselves as “human rights” groups, HRW urged the U.N. to a) fight against “anti-Semitism,” but then b) let anti-Semites have the final say in defining what “anti-Semitism” means.

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