Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism

There's what's called the Nexus Document, which a group of scholars, I think primarily in the US, I don't know if exclusively in the US, came together to create.

And then there's the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism, which is also a, you know, created by academics and scholars.

And so there's this sort of like conversation both within and outside the Jewish community about, like, how do you define antisemitism, and, like, what does this thing mean? And we just sort of, like, ignore all of that for the reasons [laughs] that we've been mentioning already, and we'll get into more.

Go ahead, Oren.

One of the things that one of the experts who we produced a report for for the Royal Commission, David Feldman, who is an eminent scholar in antisemitism, has said that one approach that the Commission could take is simply putting this debate about definitions to the side and adopting what everyone agrees is anti-Semitic, the consensus approach to anti-Semitism.

There are a range of definitions such as the Jerusalem Declaration, the Nexus document, these other definitions of anti-Semitism that have been adopted in the wake of the IRO definition to mitigate against some of the harms of the IRO definition by sort of explicitly stating that calls for a single binational state in Palestine, anti-Zionism, this does not equate to anti-Semitism, so pushing back against the IRA definition.

We've used at the Jewish Council the very high line definition of anti-Semitism that is the single sentence without the examples of the Jerusalem Declaration, which describes anti-Semitism.

I don't know if you know, is discrimination, hatred, animosity towards Jewish people because they're Jewish people.

So a very simple definition, which I think is fairly uncontestable and the way in which, you know, sort of a lot of different forms of racism are defined.