IHRA definition of antisemitism

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The IHRA definition of antisemitism is a "non-legally binding working" definition of antisemitism that was adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) in 2016. It is also known as the IHRA working definition of antisemitism (IHRA-WDA). Accompanying the working definition are 11 illustrative examples, seven of which relate to criticism of Israel, that the IHRA describes as guiding its work on antisemitism. The definition was first published in 2005 by the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC), a European Union agency, and was known as the EUMC definition or EUMC working definition, and was developed during 2003–2004, and was published without formal review by the EUMC on 28 January 2005. The EUMC's successor agency, the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), removed the working definition from its website in "a clear-out of non-official documents" in November 2013. On 26 May 2016, the working definition was adopted by the IHRA Plenary (consisting of...

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