Anti-Semitism is easy to recognise

IF there is a double-standard when discussing Israel (or Jews) and other countries (or people), if Israel is being demonised, or if calls are made for Israel’s destruction, then that is anti-Semitism.

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance has provided a guide for recognising anti-Semitism.

Contemporary examples of anti-Semitism in public life, the media, schools, the workplace and in the religious sphere could, taking into account the overall context, include — but are not limited to:

calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing, or harming, of Jews in the name of a radical ideology, or an extremist view of religion;

making mendacious, dehumanising, demonising, or stereotypical allegations about Jews, or the power of Jews as a collective — such as the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy, or of Jews controlling the media;

accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real, or imagined, wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person, or group, or even for acts committed by non-Jews;

denying the fact, scope, mechanisms (for example, gas chambers) or intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of National Socialist Germany and its supporters and accomplices during the Second World War (the Holocaust);

accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing, or exaggerating, the Holocaust.

LEN BENNETT By email