I have my reservations about the IHRA Definition. It was developed in Europe, in order to standardise the recording of antisemitic crime across various European police forces, and as such it is strikingly Eurocentric, founded in a deep awareness of Christian and post-Christian forms of Jew-hate, but saying nothing about the virulent forms of antisemitism that are native to the Middle East. However, it does at least concede that antisemitism may be expressed through “the targeting of the state of Israel, conceived of as a Jewish collectivity” – and, as such, it represents a baby step out of the liberal comfort zone...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
