Subject:
Title
Resolution Recognizing the Growing Problem of Antisemitism in the United States and Adopting the Non-Binding International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism
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Fiscal Impact:
N/A
Dept/Office:
District 5 Commission Office
Requested Action:
Recommendation
It is requested that the Board of County Commissioners adopt the Resolution recognizing the growing problem of antisemitism in the United States and adopt the non-binding International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism.
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Summary Explanation and Background:
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance unites governments and experts to strengthen, advance and promote Holocaust education, research, and remembrance and to uphold the commitments to the 2000 Stockholm Declaration.
The IHRA (formerly the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research, or ITF) was initiated in 1998. Today the IHRA’s membership consists of 35 member countries, each of whom recognizes that international political coordination is imperative to strengthen the moral commitment of societies and to combat growing Holocaust denial and antisemitism.
In the spirit of the Stockholm Declaration, in 2015, the IHRA adopted the following non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism:
“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”
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