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Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) speaking during a seminar on anti-Semitism hosted by Jewish Voice for Peace. Source: Screenshot.

Anti-Semitism webinar features pro-Palestinian activists railing against Jews and Israel

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Anti-Semitism watchdog groups called out “disingenuous efforts” to address hatred against Jews displayed this week by anti-Israel panelists on a webinar. A virtual event on Tuesday night—titled “Dismantling Anti-Semitism: Winning Justice” and hosted by the...
The Dutch parliament building. Credit: Michiel Jelijs/Flickr.

Holland creates role of anti-Semitism coordinator

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Holland will appoint a national coordinator to tackle anti-Semitism, announced Dutch Minister of Justice and Security Ferdinand Grapperhaus on Sunday. The newly created role will consist of advising the Dutch government about handling hatred against Jews. It...
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English Premier League and clubs adopt definition of anti-Semitism

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The English Premier League and its clubs adopted on Thursday the widely accepted International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism. The announcement follows efforts spearheaded by the U.K. Government’s Independent Adviser on Antisemitism Lord John Mann,...
Healy Hall at Georgetown University. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Anti-Semitism watchdog urges Georgetown to act over article insulting Kristallnacht

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The Combat Anti-Semitism Movement, an anti-Semitism watchdog group, is calling on Georgetown University to take concrete action over an article in a publication of one of its programs. The article, written by Austrian political scientist...
Orillia City Hall in Orillia, Ontario, Canada. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Ontario city council adopts universal definition of anti-Semitism

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A city council in Ontario, Canada, unanimously adopted the widely accepted International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism on Monday. The Orillia City Council adopted the definition following an hour-long presentation by Holocaust survivor Max Eisen,...
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Largest NGO of imams worldwide adopts universal definition of anti-Semitism

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The largest nongovernmental organization of imams in the world, the Global Imams Council (GIC), has adopted the widely accepted International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism. The council’s governing board, senior imams committee and advisory committee...
U.S. Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism Elan Carr partakes in an event hosted by the Combat Anti-Semitism Movement on Sept. 16, 2020. Source: Screenshot.

US, UN, UK, German officials hear anti-Semitism incidents, call for adoption of definition

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Officials from the United States, the United Nations, the United Kingdom and Germany called for greater adoption of the widely accepted International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, describing it as a critical tool...
U.S. deputy envoy on anti-Semitism Ellie Cohanim. Credit: Screenshot.

Anti-Semitism monitor to women’s group: Advances in Argentina, concern in Yemen

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In an online briefing about anti-Semitism earlier this month, Ellie Cohanim, deputy special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism at the U.S. State Department, discussed the situation in South America and Yemen, where Iran...
Holly Huffnagle, U.S. director for Combating Antisemitism for the American Jewish Committee. Credit: Courtesy.

AJC new anti-Semitism director: Jew-hatred must be held to same standard as other prejudice

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Israel and the Jewish people are always looking for friends, and they seemed to have found one in Holly Huffnagle. A Christian now employed to help tackle anti-Semitism in the United States, she has more...
Survivors at the Dachau concentration camp cheer their liberation by U.S. soldiers. Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.

Bills pass on anti-Semitism envoy, assistance to Israel, marking Dachau liberation

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The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed bills on Thursday benefiting the Jewish and pro-Israel community, and instilling a resolution to remember the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp in April 1945. One bill would...