The Jerusalem Declaration defines the 'community of the good', not antisemitism

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Hirsh, David. 2021. The Jerusalem Declaration defines the 'community of the good', not antisemitism. The Jewish Chronicle, [Article]

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Here's what's happening with the "Jerusalem Declaration". Jews who hate Trump and Netanyahu are trying to cement their membership of the larger community that hates Trump and Netanyahu. Because they feel that their membership is precarious; and that feeling is very frightening.

It is in this context that IHRA looks like a right wing "pro-Israel" instrument. Some of the clever ones concede that IHRA isn't that in its essence, in its text, but they say that IHRA is right wing in its use. They fight IHRA as though it is a tool of Trump.

What the Jerusalem Declarationists are trying to avoid is what happened to us in Britain. They don't want to find themselves politically and intellectually homeless, excluded both from an antisemitic left and a populist racist right. They don’t want to be vilified, branded as racists, and (especially) treated as vulgar and unscholarly...

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