Some Disorderly Thoughts on Antisemitism and Related Matters
1 In response to protests at American universities against Israelβs genocidal βwarβ in Gaza, the United States House of Representatives accepted the βAntisemitism Awareness Actβ on April 30. This act codifies the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism as well as its attached list of eleven βcontemporary examples of antisemitismβ. Most of those examples are antisemitic indeed by any reasonable interpretation of the term, but three of those β namely, examples 7, 8, and 10 β are a bit more dubious, largely due to their ambiguity. The text of these examples is the following: (7) β Denying...