StopAntisemitism is extremely disturbed by several key aspects of the White House’s antisemitism strategy. Our country’s crisis of Jew-hatred needs to be addressed clearly, completely, and as a phenomenon unto itself, and the Biden Administration’s plan falls short on all counts.
Against the advice of major antisemitism advocacy organizations, the plan does not use the IHRA definition to delineate what counts as antisemitism, instead relegating it to a brief paragraph that also includes the inferior, competing Nexus definition. This flies in the face of the plan’s assertion that “If we cannot name, identify, and admit a problem, we cannot begin to solve it.”
Not using IHRA as a foundational guide creates a gaping hole; while the plan acknowledges that Jews have been targeted because of their connection to Israel, it fails to name anti-Zionism as a primary form of antisemitism.
The plan also does not allow antisemitism to stand alone, as it repeatedly mentions planned executive actions to fight “antisemitism, Islamophobia, and related forms of bias and discrimination.” Fighting Islamophobia and other bigotries is an excellent goal, but it does not belong in this particular antisemitism strategy."
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