{"id":1938103,"date":"2023-05-25T17:16:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T21:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-caves-to-anti-israel-pressure-on-anti-semitism-rollout\/"},"modified":"2023-05-25T17:19:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T21:19:57","slug":"white-house-caves-to-anti-israel-pressure-on-anti-semitism-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-caves-to-anti-israel-pressure-on-anti-semitism-rollout\/","title":{"rendered":"White House bows to anti-Israel pressure on anti-Semitism plan."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-caves-to-anti-israel-pressure-on-anti-semitism-rollout%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1938103&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><blockquote>\n<h2>Biden Administration Embraces Watered-Down Definition of Anti-Semitism<\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption>Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Biden administration has released its report on combating Jew hatred, and it&#8217;s making a concession to anti-Israel activists by embracing a watered-down definition of anti-Semitism. This definition says it&#8217;s okay to hold Israel to higher standards than other countries. <\/p>\n<p>This announcement is a significant blow to mainstream Jewish groups, which had lobbied the White House to exclusively endorse the stronger International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism. While the White House says the United States &#8220;has embraced&#8221; the IHRA definition, it also praises the conflicting &#8220;Nexus&#8221; definition, which states that it is not anti-Semitic to denounce Israel&#8217;s creation or treat the Jewish state more harshly than other countries.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-Israel groups such as J Street and Americans for Peace Now had pushed the White House to mention <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/covid-restrictions-in-public-schools-might-be-over-but-the-failures-they-revealed-are-not\/\" title=\"Covid Restrictions In Public Schools Might Be Over, But The Failures They Revealed Are Not\">multiple definitions<\/a> of anti-Semitism in the report to avoid giving legitimacy to the IHRA standard, which prominent Biden administration officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, have endorsed. <\/p>\n<h3>Multiple Definitions of Anti-Semitism<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The most prominent is the non-legally binding &#8216;working definition&#8217; of anti-Semitism adopted in 2016 by the 31-member states of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), which the United States has embraced.<\/li>\n<li>In addition, the administration welcomes and appreciates the Nexus Document and notes other such efforts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Advocates for the IHRA have argued that supporting the &#8220;Nexus&#8221; statement would undermine efforts to fight anti-Semitism and coalesce global leaders around a strong definition. But the Democratic-leaning Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and Greenblatt appeared to fall in line with the White House&#8217;s Thursday decision to include Nexus, writing on Twitter that they &#8220;applaud the [Biden] administration, and we are excited to continue to collaborate in the execution of this plan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations\u2014which also lobbied for the IHRA definition\u2014said on Thursday that the group &#8220;wholeheartedly applaud[s] the Biden administration&#8217;s continuing embrace of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, which is the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/josh-hammer-the-new-age-of-orwellianism\/\" title=\"Josh Hammer: The New Age of Orwellianism\">universally accepted definition<\/a> of anti-Semitism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, the decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-caves-to-anti-israel-pressure-on-anti-semitism-rollout\/\" title=\"White House bows to anti-Israel pressure on anti-Semitism plan.\">include dueling definitions drew criticism<\/a> from other anti-Semitism watchdogs. Liora Rez, executive director of StopAntisemitism.org, said the Biden administration &#8220;grossly missed its chance to make a clear statement on what constitutes anti-Semitism, and America&#8217;s Jews will suffer as a result.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, called the report an &#8220;important and impressive blueprint&#8221; but said he was concerned that the White House didn&#8217;t enshrine IHRA in its definition of anti-Semitism. &#8220;The fight against anti-Semitism cannot be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/high-school-english-teacher-downplays-holocaust\/\" title=\"High School English Teacher Downplays Holocaust\">multiple-choice question<\/a>,&#8221; he said. &#8220;IHRA was, is, and remains the definition that needs to be adopted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Partnership with CAIR<\/h3>\n<p>The White House said on Thursday that it is also partnering on the initiative with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has a long history of anti-Semitism. CAIR &#8220;will launch a tour to educate religious communities about steps they can take to protect their houses of worship from hate incidents&#8221; as part of the initiative to combat anti-Semitism, the White House said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration&#8217;s report on combating anti-Semitism welcomes a diluted definition that allows holding Israel to higher standards than other nations. This move is seen as a concession to anti-Israel activists. 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