“Here is a partial list of current accusations against Israel that we believe cross the line into antisemitism:”
Read the list in Nelson and Saenger’s “When Discourse about Israel Becomes Antisemitic: A Guide for the Perplexed” (Fathom)
“The first question Mr. Biden’s working group should answer is whether it supports the IHRA definition. With clear guidance about what anti-Semitism means, federal agencies, as well as other jurisdictions and organizations such as colleges and universities, would then know what they should be looking out for. The public would also have a better understanding of how, when and where anti-Semitism is arising.”
Source: Alvin Rosenfeld and Leslie Lenkowsky, “Can the Biden Administration Define Anti-Semitism?” (The Wall Street Journal)
Last week, “Identity/Crisis: The Ideas Behind the News,” a podcast of the Shalom Hartman Institute, dropped an episode on “Antizionism at Berkeley Law”:
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“We have inherited a household of furniture from the Jewish past. We must now decide what will go into the attic, and what will go into the living room.”
Source: Amos Oz, quoted by Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin in a beautiful piece adapted from a Yom Kippur sermon (Religion News Service)
“This will be our first Yom Kippur in true exile from the place we called our home for three decades.
Source: Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, “My First Yom Kippur in Exile” (The New York Times; gift link will take you behind the paywall)