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International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Working definition of Anti-Semitism

Meeting: 06/03/2019 - Council (Item 73)

73 International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Working definition of Anti-Semitism (Minute EXB 98 refers) pdf icon PDF 72 KB

Executive Board considered the attached report.

 

RECOMMENDED: That Council adopt the IHRA working definition of Anti-Semitism.

 

 

Minutes:

          The Council considered a report of the Strategic Director, Enterprise, Community and Resources, on the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and working definition of Anti-Semitism.

 

          The IHRA was an intergovernmental organisation which strengthened, advanced and promoted Holocaust education worldwide. The Council had been approached by the Jewish Leadership Council to adopt this definition.

 

          RESOLVED: That Council adopt the IHRA working definition of Anti-Semitism.


Meeting: 21/02/2019 - Executive Board (Item 98)

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Minutes:

The Board considered a report of the Strategic Director, Enterprise, Community and Resources, on the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and working definition of Anti-Semitism.

          The Board was advised that the IHRA was an intergovernmental organisation which strengthened, advanced and promoted Holocaust education, research and remembrance worldwide. It also upheld the commitments of the Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust. The IHRA working definition of Anti-Semitism was set out in the report. It was reported that the Council had been approached by the Jewish Leadership Council to adopt this definition.

          RESOLVED: That Council be recommended to adopt the IHRA working definition of Anti-Semitism.