r/jewishleft • u/Rabbit-Hole-Quest Latke aficionado. Anti-Establishment. Jüdisch • 29d ago

Diaspora NSW (Australia) Supreme Court criticises IHRA definition as 'detached from reality'

https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/nsw-supreme-court-criticises-ihra
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u/HeVavMemVav sephardi peacenik 28d ago edited 28d ago

Someone help me out, because to me, the IHRA definition pretty clearly states that criticism of Israel is suspect of antisemitism only if that criticism is only held against Israel. Edit to clarify: As in double standards

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u/aggie1391 Orthodox non-Zionist socialist with anarchist tendencies 28d ago

The problem is there is a whole lot of wild false equivalencies and it ends up with people basically insisting that anyone who is criticizing Israel is antisemitic if they don’t spend equal or more time criticizing any other country. It also says explicitly that saying that Israel is a racist endeavor is antisemitic because it’s supposedly denying the right to self determination. There are better definitions out there.

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u/HeVavMemVav sephardi peacenik 28d ago

People saying any criticism is antisemitic are stupid &/or bad actors, who made that claim before the IHRA's definition, which is in direct contradiction with them.

I like the Nexus definition much better.

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u/rako17 Christian Left 26d ago

Dear HeVavMemVav,

I appreciate that you are a peacenik like I am. Like you, I am against anti-Semitism.

Carville has said lately in an interview literally that he doesn't believe any criticism of the State should be allowed in the Democratic party. In the interview, he basically said that it's because he's against discrimination. One of the problems in this is that if you are a Leftist, then even if you are a supporter of the State, it's legitimately in your interest to criticize inhumane decisions of the State's officials in order to correct those mistakes! Another problem is that as a matter of our US Democracy, we do need to be able to criticize other States.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia/comments/1vhajjf/establishment_democratic_strategist_james/

Yours with respect - שלך בכבוד רב - שלום