President Joe Biden’s new “antisemitism strategy” has been criticized for excluding extreme criticism of Israel, in deference to radical left-wing groups that are a core part of the Democratic Party coalition. The strategy has also been attacked for potentially targeting conservatives.
But the biggest problem with the strategy is that it will not work, because it leaves out the most powerful tools for empowering Jewish communities to discourage hate.
Israel. The strategy fails to recognize that a strong U.S.-Israel relationship and a positive image of Israel are crucial to the security and well-being of Jews in America, both communally and individually. The strategy not only excludes the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which says that singling out Israel is potentially discriminatory, but also fails to say anything positive about Israel.
The fact is that Israel’s success has, over several decades, given American Jews…
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