States Adopt IHRA Definition of Anti-Semitism
(2022)
The following states have advanced a proclamation or executive order recognizing the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism.
In a “Sense of the Council Condemning Antisemitism Resolution of 2022” adopted in April 2022, the District of Columbia denounced anti-Semitism and all hateful speech and bias-motivated violent actions in the District of Columbia.
The resolution acknowledged that the IHRA definition provides a road map to defining and rooting out Antisemitism.
Sources: “US States Move to Adopt IHRA Definition of Antisemitism,” JNS, (January 28, 2022).
Proclamation of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, (February 18, 2022).
“Reynolds signs anti-BDS of Israel and antisemitism bills into law,” Iowa Torch, (March 24, 2022).
Zvika Klein, “Kansas becomes 20th US state to endorse IHRA antisemitism definition,” Jerusalem Post, (March 24, 2022).
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