Oltre 200 studiosi liberali affermano che sostenere il boicottaggio di Israele non è antisemita
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JTA - Un gruppo di oltre 200 studiosi ha rilasciato una definizione di antisemitismo che esclude esplicitamente i tentativi di boicottare Israele , Ciò evidenzia l'opposizione , anche ebraica, contro una campagna di un certo numero di gruppi ebraici dell'establishment ,finalizzata a etichettare le campagne di boicottaggio contro Israele come antisemite.
La Dichiarazione di Gerusalemme sull'antisemitismo pubblicata giovedì arriva poco più di una settimana dopo la dichiarazione di un gruppo liberale di studiosi ebrei che ha affermato : i doppi standard applicati a Israele non sono necessariamente antisemiti.
La Dichiarazione di Gerusalemme va oltre la precedente dichiarazione della Nexus Task Force, affermando esplicitamente che il movimento per boicottare Israele non è di per sé antisemita.
"Boicottaggio, disinvestimento e sanzioni sono forme comuni e non violente di protesta politica contro gli stati", secondo la Dichiarazione di Gerusalemme, firmata da studiosi nel campo dell'antisemitismo, dell'Olocausto, del pensiero ebraico, di Israele e di altre discipline . "Nel caso israeliano, non sono, di per sé, antisemiti".
Entrambe le dichiarazioni cercano di respingere la richiesta di gruppi ebraici tradizionali di far adottare ai governi statali e nazionali la definizione del 2016 elaborata dall'International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
"Poiché la definizione IHRA è poco chiara sotto gli aspetti principali e ampiamente aperta a diverse interpretazioni, ha causato confusione e generato controversie, indebolendo quindi la lotta contro l'antisemitismo", afferma la dichiarazione.
Among the signatories to the Jerusalem Declaration are well-known critics of current Israeli policies, including Ian Lustick of the University of Pennsylvania, and the writer Peter Beinart, as well as others in the mainstream of modern Jewish scholarship, including Susannah Heschel, the chairwoman of the Jewish studies program at Dartmouth; A.B. Yehoshua, the Israeli novelist; and Dov Waxman, the chairman of Israel studies at UCLA.
Among the declaration’s lead drafters are anti-Semitism scholars in the United States, Israel, Germany and Britain.
JTA — A group of over 200 scholars has released a definition of anti-Semitism that explicitly excludes efforts to boycott Israel — the latest pushback against a campaign by a number of establishment Jewish groups to label boycotts campaigns against Israel as anti-Semitic.
The Jerusalem Declaration on Anti-Semitism released Thursday comes just over a week after a separate statement by a liberal group of Jewish scholars said that double standards applied to Israel were not necessarily anti-Semitic.
The Jerusalem Declaration goes further than the earlier declaration by the Nexus Task Force in explicitly saying that the movement to boycott Israel is not in and of itself anti-Semitic.
“Boycott, divestment, and sanctions are commonplace, non-violent forms of political protest against states,” according to the Jerusalem Declaration, which was signed by scholars in the fields of anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, Jewish thought, Israel and other disciplines. “In the Israeli case, they are not, in and of themselves, anti-Semitic.”
Both statements seek to push back a bid by a number of mainstream Jewish groups to have state and national governments adopt the 2016 definition crafted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. The most controversial component of the IHRA definition defines as anti-Semitic “Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.”
The Jerusalem Declaration, so named because it is the initiative of a group of scholars who came together in 2020 under the auspices of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, makes clear that it was spurred in part by objections to the IHRA definition.
“Because the IHRA Definition is unclear in key respects and widely open to different interpretations, it has caused confusion and generated controversy, hence weakening the fight against antisemitism,” the declaration says.
Among the signatories to the Jerusalem Declaration are well-known critics of current Israeli policies, including Ian Lustick of the University of Pennsylvania, and the writer Peter Beinart, as well as others in the mainstream of modern Jewish scholarship, including Susannah Heschel, the chairwoman of the Jewish studies program at Dartmouth; A.B. Yehoshua, the Israeli novelist; and Dov Waxman, the chairman of Israel studies at UCLA.
Among the declaration’s lead drafters are anti-Semitism scholars in the United States, Israel, Germany and Britain.
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