Posts Tagged ‘definition’

When Corporations Become More Powerful Than The Government, Our Definition Of “Big Brother” Needs To Change

Throughout human history, our God-given liberties and freedoms have often been brutally crushed by oppressive governments, and that is still happening all over the world today.  But in our time, an additional threat to our liberties and freedoms has emerged.  Global corporations just continue to get larger and more powerful, and in recent years they […]

Rep. Bob Wittman on Lloyd Austin: ‘What Is the Definition of Extremism?’

Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak asked Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA) about Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s claim that “extremism in the military” necessitates a 60-day “stand down” order across the armed services to address. Last week, Austin issued a military-wide order for commanders to spend the next 60 days discussing “extremism” with military personnel. […]

Embrace of IHRA’s Definition is One of Biden’s Early Policy Victories

This week, the Biden/Harris administration boldly declared that it “embraces and champions” the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. The announcement reflects the administration’s appropriate commitment to protecting minority communities that feel extraordinarily vulnerable after the last 4 years. And yet, the IHRA definition has become a point of tension in parts of […]

Paris adopts the IHRA definition of antisemitism

The city of Paris adopted the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism during a session of the Council of Paris on Thursday, joining a growing number of cities around the world, including London and more recently the French city of Nice, to make the move.The decision was taken by the Council of Paris, headed by Paris’ Mayor […]

Biden administration embraces antisemitism definition that includes some criticisms of Israel

Earlier this week, a U.S. State Department official declared that the Biden administration “embraces and champions” the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism. That definition notably defines certain criticisms of Israel as antisemitic. Addressing an Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) conference on combating antisemitism, US Deputy Assistant Secretary […]

US accepts IHRA’s definition of antisemitism, Biden official says

WASHINGTON – The conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations and the American Jewish Committee (AJC) welcomed on Tuesday the State Department’s support for the IHRA definition of antisemitism. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kara McDonald addressed an expert committee meeting on combating antisemitism in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, voicing support […]

Biden administration ‘embraces’ international definition of anti-Semitism

Browse > Home / News / Biden administration ‘embraces’ international definition of anti-Semitism February 3, 2021 by JNS Read on for article The Biden administration has said it will adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism, a key tool in fighting anti-Semitism at home and abroad. President Joe Biden in the […]

Montreal Borough Votes to Adopt IHRA Definition of Antisemitism in Wake of Synagogue Vandalism

Caption: Swastikas deface the doors of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Montreal. Photo: Simon Wiesenthal Center. Councillors in Montreal’s most populous borough voted on Wednesday to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, joining hundreds of civic organizations, city councils and national governments around the world who have already done the same. […]

Why the IHRA Handbook on Antisemitism — Not Just Its Definition — Is Needed

March of the Living participants pass through the gates of Auschwitz in 2016. Photo: MOTL. The year 2020 will be marked as, among other distinctions, a time of unbridled global antisemitism. The phenomenon is growing from three sources — the radical Left, the extreme Right, and Islamists — but while that doesn’t tell the full […]

NGO Monitor Highlights Using IHRA Definition For Funding

The NGO Monitor watchdog hosted a webinar on January 26 discussing the report they realized that day on how the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism can be used to vet NGO funding. The Deputy Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Ellie Cohanim (2019-2021) explained that IHRA was first used by […]

Major American Jewish coalition adopts IHRA definition of antisemitism

Nearly all of the members of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations are adopting a common, but hotly debated, definition of antisemitism. The conference, an umbrella group of Jewish organizations, announced Tuesday that 51 of its 53 members have adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism, a 500-word document […]

IHRA definition of antisemitism helpful but shouldn’t be part of law

A common and increasingly controversial definition of antisemitism is helpful but should not be given the force of law. That’s what the Reform movement, America’s largest Jewish religious denomination, had to say in a statement published Monday about the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism. The definition includes 11 examples of how antisemitism […]

IHRA definition of anti-Semitism divides US Jews ahead of Biden presidency

JTA — When is it anti-Semitic to criticize Israel? Anti-Semitism signifies hatred of Jews and the ways that hatred is perpetuated through age-old conspiracy theories and their modern variants. But what about when that hatred is expressed through rhetoric about the Jewish state? Is anti-Zionism anti-Semitism? Those questions have divided American Jews in recent years […]

Farmers in protest: Learning from the past and creating history with a real definition of nationalism

The following excerpt is taken from Bhagat Singh’s “Letter to Young Political Workers” (The Bhagat Singh Reader, pp. 224-245), written on February 2, 1931: The real revolutionary armies are in the villages and in factories, the peasantry and the labourers. But our bourgeois leaders do not and cannot dare to tackle them. The sleeping lion […]

In October 20202 WHO quietly Changed the Definition of Herd Immunity

Story at-a-glance Herd immunity occurs when enough people acquire immunity to an infectious disease such that it can no longer spread widely in the community WHO’s definition of herd immunity long reflected this, but in October 2020 it quietly revised this concept in an Orwellian move that totally removes natural infection from the equation Immunity […]

Why are people fighting the IHRA definition of antisemitism?

When is it antisemitic to criticize Israel? antisemitism signifies hatred of Jews and the ways that hatred is perpetuated through age-old conspiracy theories and their modern variants. But what about when that hatred is expressed through rhetoric about the Jewish state? Is anti-Zionism antisemitism? Establishment Jewish groups want Joe Biden’s administration to treat some anti-Israel […]

CSUN Student Government Adopts IHRA Definition of Anti-Semitism

The student government at California State University Northridge (CSUN) unanimously passed a resolution adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism on December 7. The resolution states that anti-Semitic incidents have increased in the United States by 12% from 2018 to 2019 and that in 2018, there was graffiti threatening a mass shooting […]

Left-wing Jewish alliance calls on Biden to reject antisemitism definition that includes anti-Zionism

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Left-Wing Jewish Groups’ Rejection of Holocaust Alliance Antisemitism Definition Meets Criticism

Part of an exhibit on the Holocaust supported by the IHRA. Photo: courtesy of IHRA. A statement from a coalition of progressive Jewish groups rejecting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism because it included anti-Zionism among its examples encountered criticism on social media on Tuesday. The statement from the Progressive Israel Network, […]

European Commission publishes IHRA antisemitism definition handbook

The European Commission began using the IHRA definition in 2017 and the European Parliament adopted it for use in the same year. Source

WHO Changes Definition of “Herd Immunity” to Eliminate Pre-COVID Consensus

Two leading virologists are concerned that new strains of the COVID virus could make vaccines currently being rolled out “ineffective,” according to NBC News reporter Richard Engel. “Two leading virologists (one UK, one USA) tell me this mutation won’t be the last and worry about a change that fundamentally alters the virus structure, making the […]

The declining credibility of Palestinian objections to the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism

Browse > Home / Featured Articles / The declining credibility of Palestinian objections to the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism December 5, 2020 by Ben Cohen – JNS.org Read on for article A group of Palestinian and Arab intellectuals, 122 in all, endorsed a statement last week published by The Guardian newspaper that attacked the International […]

Top English Soccer Club Under Fire for Not Endorsing International Antisemitism Definition

Sheffield United’s George Baldock rues a foiled attempt on goal during a Premier League clash with West Bromwich Albion. Photo: Reuters / Lindsey Parnaby. Top-flight English soccer club Sheffield United took a hammering from British Jewish leaders on Friday, after a UK newspaper reported that its management had not signed up to the definition of […]

English Premier League and clubs adopt definition of anti-Semitism

Browse > Home / News / English Premier League and clubs adopt definition of anti-Semitism December 4, 2020 by JNS Read on for article The English Premier League and its clubs adopted on Thursday the widely accepted International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism. The announcement follows efforts spearheaded by the U.K. Government’s Independent Adviser on […]

English Premier League adopts IHRA definition of antisemitism

The English Premier League, the highest level of soccer in England, has adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, the organization said on Thursday.In a press release, the league said it had adopted the definition as a part of its “ongoing commitment to promote equality and diversity, and to combat discrimination […]

Statement on the IHRA definition and the question of Palestine

We, the undersigned, Palestinian and Arab academics, journalists, and intellectuals, are hereby stating our views regarding the definition of antisemitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), and the way this definition has been applied, interpreted and deployed in several countries of Europe and North America. In recent years, the fight against antisemitism has been increasingly instrumentalized […]

UK’s Buckinghamshire New University adopts IHRA antisemitism definition

Buckinghamshire New University has become the latest higher learning institution in the United Kingdom to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism.The decision was made by the university’s senate and council last week in order to advance the institution’s “historic mission to create a learning community that is truly inclusive,” according to […]

Flawed IHRA antisemitism definition reaches Ontario

On October 25, Doug Ford’s Conservative government, through an Order in Council, adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) “Working Definition of Antisemitism.” Not only is this unilateral move in keeping with the Ford government’s anti-democratic tendencies, the flawed IHRA definition poses a direct threat to freedom of expression. It also fails, as David Feldman […]

Nevadans Vote to Remove Definition of Marriage as ‘Between Male and Female’ From Constitution

Photo Credit: Jonatas Domingos/Unsplash Voters in Nevada approved a ballot initiative on Tuesday that removes language from the state Constitution defining marriage as being between a man and a woman and replacing it with text stating that the State will issue marriage licenses “regardless of gender.” Question 2 read: “Shall the Nevada Constitution be amended to: (1) […]

Same Story, Different Decade: How WHO’s Definition of a Global Pandemic Benefits Big Pharma

The Facts: Sangulani (Maxwell) Chikumbutso has invented an electric system that runs off a battery. The unique thing is the battery charges itself with electromagnetic radiation that’s present naturally in the environment. It can run forever. Reflect On: Why do these technologies never see the light of day? Why are they usually ridiculed and brushed […]

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