Distinguishing prejudice from political disagreement

There are good reasons for institutional resistance to the IHRA definition of antisemitism

Here is a piece in the Jewish Independent taking on a truly awful attempt to accuse universities and the public media (but of course not the Murdoch press), of antisemitism because they won’t enforce a very narrow interpretation of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism. It appears that some people like what I have said.

”Slonim appears to give insufficient attention to alternative explanations for institutional hesitation toward expansive interpretations of the IHRA working definition. His article tends to assume that resistance reflects an unwillingness to listen to Jews or take Jewish concerns seriously.

Yet the argument moves further than that. It implies that anything short of adopting a particular Zionism-linked understanding of antisemitism undermines the “moral seriousness” with which Jewish rights are treated.”