When news of the impending executive order leaked, many rushed to criticize it without understanding its purpose. The executive order does not define Jews as a nationality. It merely says that to the extent that Jews are discriminated against for ethnic, racial or national characteristics, they are entitled to protection by the anti-discrimination law.<\/p>\n
This new order adopts as its definition of anti-Semitism the language put forth in 2016 by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, while also accounting for other forms of anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n
For example, the alliance defines \u201cthe targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity,\u201d and those who deny \u201cthe Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a state of Israel is a racist endeavor\u201d or those who compare \u201ccontemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis\u201d as examples of anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n
The Remembrance Alliance definition makes clear what our administration has stated publicly and on the record: Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism. The inclusion of this language with contemporary examples gives critical guidance to agencies enforcing Title VI provisions.<\/p>\n
Anti-Semites have grown increasingly brazen in claiming that attacks on Israel \u2014 and even on Jewish students who may or may not support Israel \u2014 are not anti-Semitic. It has become fashionable among Jew haters to characterize any discriminatory behavior \u2014 no matter how loathsome \u2014 not as criticism of Jews, but of Israel. This is a lie. Especially on college campuses, where discrimination, harassment and intimidation of Jewish students has become commonplace and is routinely, but wrongly, justified.<\/p>\n
Article source: https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/11\/opinion\/jared-kushner-trump-anti-semitism.html?emc=rss&partner=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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