As the descendant of a survivor of a genocide, the Holocaust, I refuse to be a bystander to another genocide
Careful, per the IHRA definition of antisemitism, when one says:
As the descendant of a survivor of a genocide, the Holocaust, I refuse to be a bystander to another genocide
they might be antisemitic:
Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.
This is the definition adopted by the United States.
To clarify, in 2016 they adapted definition, but it was still non-binding.
This year, they are trying to make it official and binding. So far it passed the House, but still needs to pass the Senate and be signed by the president.
US House passes controversial bill that expands definition of anti-Semitism
That’s alarming…I did not know the US had even that as part of their antisemitic laws.
They didn’t until after this genocide got extremely obvious
When you say laws, does this mean there are penalties for this kind of speech? I was under the impression it just defined the term antisemitism.
Adding IHRA’s definition to the law would allow the federal Department of Education to restrict funding and other resources to campuses perceived as tolerating anti-Semitism.
It says “would” because as the other guy said it still needs to pass the Senate and the White House.
I’m aware of the current bill before the Senate but was thinking you meant there were laws currently on the books that had punitive measures against antisemitism. Sorry for the confusion!
More people should know about the JDA definition of antisemitism, it is much clearer, much more sensible and not as self-contradictory as the deeply flawed IHRA definition: https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/
The US has been buddies with Israel over 80 years. I would go as far to say it’s like America placed in the middle east.
In 1999, the U.S. government signed a commitment to provide Israel with at least US$2.7 billion in military aid annually for ten years; in 2009 it was raised to $3 billion; and in 2019 raised to a minimum of US$3.8 billion
In addition to financial and military aid, the U.S. provides large-scale political support, having used its United Nations Security Council veto power 42 times against resolutions condemning Israel, out of 83 times in which its veto has been used. Between 1991 and 2011, out of the 24 vetoes invoked by the U.S., 15 were used to protect Israel
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–United_States_relations
