Recently the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem came out with a definition/declaration of antisemitism that challenged the now widely used definition/guidelines published ten years ago by IHRA. The original is perceived by many progressives as too restrictive of the right to criticize Israel, for some a blow to Palestinian rights to freedom of expression.
it threatens free speech and academic freedom and constitutes an attack on both the Palestinian right to self-determination, and the struggle to democratise Israel.
Van Leer, an institute that consistently supports the Palestinian “narrative” that the Nakbah of 1948 is comparable to the Holocaust of 1941-45, came out with a declaration they called the “Jerusalem Declaration” that attempted to redress the perceived restraints on legitimate criticism of Israel. (Out of lack of deference to their pretension, I will henceforth refer to it as the
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What would you do if, out of the blue and more than sixteen years after the fact, three former colleagues posted an open letter falsely accusing you of making up a significant professional accomplishment – in my case being the lead drafter of the “working definition of antisemitism?” (First known as the EUMC “working definition of antisemitism,” it is now called the IHRA “working definition of antisemitism.”)
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In January of 2019, the Academic Freedom Committee of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) wrote a letter to Benyamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, and several other ministers and officials. In that condemnatory letter, MESA, an organization that has been obsessively and chronically anti-Israel, chastened Israel, with the purpose of the complaint “. . . to urge a halt to the Israeli army and security forces conducting arbitrary arrests at and incursions into Palestinian universities, assaulting students, faculty, and staff and obstructing the education of thousands of students.”
Despite a collapsing Lebanese economy and considerable political turmoil, Hezbollah continues to threaten Israel. These threats must be taken seriously,.
Nusseibeh’s narrative is far from unique. When higher education institutions worldwide carry the name “college” or “university,” we often assume that these institutions are roughly similar everywhere. It’s true that an accounting or engineering course in one country will resemble courses in the same subject elsewhere. But a Religion course in a theocracy that imposes a state religion on its people will be different from a course of that same name in countries where religious and democratic freedoms prevail. Similarly, a course on Government or Politics in a dictatorship will not resemble comparably named courses elsewhere.
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