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CUJF Board Adopts IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism
On October 15th, 2024, the CUJF Board voted to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism, with examples, as its policy.
The document is comprised of three parts, a preamble, the working definition, and examples that may serve as illustrations of antisemitism. The examples includes a paragraph of “manifestations of antisemitism”, a bulleted list of eleven “Contemporary examples of antisemitism in public life, the media, schools, the workplace, and in the religious sphere could, taking into account the overall context,” and three clarification of terms.
The Preamble and Definition is as follows, and the entire document including contemporary examples that may serve as illustrations, may be found at holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism
In the spirit of the Stockholm Declaration that states: “With humanity still scarred by ...antisemitism and xenophobia the international community shares a solemn responsibility to fight those evils” the committee on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial called the IHRA Plenary in Budapest 2015 to adopt the following working definition of antisemitism.
On 26 May 2016, the Plenary in Bucharest decided to adopt the following non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism:
“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”
