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Defining Antisemitism: Is IHRA Inclusive or Divisive?

  • Jackman Hall, AGO 317 Dundas Street West Toronto, ON, M5T 1G4 Canada (map)
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Bill 168, currently before the Ontario legislature, calls for the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of Antisemitism, inclusive of its list of illustrative examples. Jewish organizations of many stripes, including JSpaceCanada, have lobbied parliamentarians to pass the bill. Pro-Palestinian and civil liberties groups have called for the opposite. Why is the IHRA definition engendering such opposing reactions? And how can we, as Canadian communities, work together to heal divisions and counter all forms of discrimination?