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Community | The IHRA definition isn’t perfect. But its critics aren’t making things better.

JL;DR SUMMARY Mark Goldfeder critiques the efforts of the Nexus Task Force in proposing a replacement for the established IHRA definition of antisemitism. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Freedom Of ExpressionFirst AmendmentWhite SupremacyInternational Holocaust Remembrance AllianceCriticism Of IsraelIhra DefinitionNexus Task ForcePolitical CriticismLegal Framework

Places mentioned

Jerusalem, Israel
"Jerusalems Western Wall, the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa mosques By AHMAD GHARABLI/Getty Images"
Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
"In 2017, a German court decided that the 2014 firebombing of a synagogue in Wuppertal, Germany was not antisemitic, because the criminals claimed that the act was just the way that they chose to express their anti-Israel politics."
United States
"adopted by a growing number of universities both in the U.S. and abroad."
Germany
"Germany embraced the IHRA definition.) The final concern the Nexus task force expressed is that Important aspects of contemporary antisemitism"
Serbia
"of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and all European Union member states, as well as Serbia, Bahrain and Albania."
Bahrain
"of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and all European Union member states, as well as Serbia, Bahrain and Albania."
Albania
"of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and all European Union member states, as well as Serbia, Bahrain and Albania."

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