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The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism is an orientalist text Mark Muhannad Ayyash © Under international law, settlements are considered illegal [Mohamad Torokman/Reuters] A representation of a map with the colours of the Palestinian flag reading Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Palestine is placed on a fence during a protest, in the village of Bilin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank [Mohamad Torokman/Reuters]
In a 2000 interview for the Israeli daily Haaretz, journalist Ari Shavit asks Palestinian literary theorist and anti-colonial writer Edward Said whether he thinks “the idea of a Jewish state is flawed”.
In response, Said asks his own questions about the notions of “Jewishness” and “who is a Jew” in this state. Shavit abruptly stops that line of thinking, stating “But that’s an internal Jewish question. The question for you is whether the Jews are a people who have a right to a state of their own?”
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Last month, two new definitions of antisemitism – The Nexus Document and the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (JDA) – sought to challenge the widely-accepted International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. Both documents focus on the area that is increasingly dividing global Jewry: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its relationship to antisemitism.
The IHRA working definition has been adopted by governments and institutions the world over, including the U.S. State Department and the British Labour Party, as a way to define the manifestations of hate against Jewish people. It is comprised of a core text, stating: “Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish com
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I am personally grateful to the 200 plus signatories of the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism. The publication of their idiosyncratic (non) definition of antisemitism has offered opportunities for so many good jokes. What else can you expect from a definition of antisemitism where the expression “hate crime” is nowhere to be found, but as Dave Ruch pointed out it mentions “Palestine” almost 10 times.
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