New research charts a five-year campaign by highly partisan, pro-Israel lobby groups to mislead the international community about the nature of what has been widely described as the “gold standard” definition of antisemitism.

While “Woke Zionism,” which seeks to conflate anti-Zionism and antisemitism, is a relatively modern innovation, the erasure of Palestinian existence, both physically and discursively, is one of Zionism’s fundamental features. We must respond by reaffirming the subjectivity of Palestinians living under apartheid. One way to do this is to support the BDS movement which represents Palestinians’ demands for equality, freedom, and justice.

The NDP’s new pro-Palestine resolution is a victory and we must also continue to fight back against the Israel lobby’s efforts to delegitimize the Palestine solidarity movement by intensifing the work on all our campaigns – one struggle, many fronts.

Playing the “antisemitism” card against progressives is the Israel lobby’s weapon of choice. But we can fight back, here’s how.

Since its development the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism has been used as a cudgel to stifle and suppress Palestine activism. Recently a group of over 200 Jewish scholars published the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism, which takes direct aim at the IHRA.

The JDA is an overwhelmingly positive contribution to detoxifying the debate over antisemitism and the dishonest attempts of Israel’s supporters to conflate antisemitism and anti-Zionism. It should therefore be welcomed as a wholly positive contribution to demystifying the question of antisemitism and anti-Zionism, Tony Greenstein writes.

Canada’s pro-Israel lobby is pressuring New Democratic Party leadership to suppress debate around a resolutions that seeks to rebuke the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism.

The new “Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism” offers a needed alternative to the fraudulent IHRA definition of antisemitism, but it sill contains crucial flaws.

A group of over 200 Jewish scholars have released a definition of antisemitism in a direct response to the contentious International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, which included some criticisms of Israel. While many Palestine activists are applauding the new Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism for taking on the IHRA, they’re also pointing to problems with its framing and voicing concerns over its potential impact.

Rabbi David Saperstein exemplifies PEP, progressive except for Palestine. In an hour-long talk, he expressed outrage over ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, apartheid in South Africa and countries that don’t separate religion and state. But never mentioned Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, the new charges that Israel practices apartheid, and Israel’s law that gives Jews exclusive land and language rights.