City hall declines to adopt antisemitism definition
City hall has declined to adopt a definition of antisemitism that has been found controversial. Inevitably Lionel Perez and Marvin Rotrand are enacting outrage, Perez even saying the decision sends a message of hate.
Note that neither Calgary nor Vancouver have adopted the definition either.
I’m getting tired of the politics of extremes in our time. Nobody really thinks city hall is a nest of antisemites, and it cheapens the seriousness of the real existence of antisemitism to play a game pretending it is.
Ian 20:19 on 2020-01-28 Permalink
When I see people trying to define antisemitism in this way I often feel uncomfortable.
It ties in very much to an extremely specific view of what Israel is, who it is for, and what it is that even excludes a lot of Jews. It’s intellectually disingenuous and manipulative.
Worse, it leads to situations like the JDL harassing the “wrong” kind of Jews in the streets, threatening to cut the “sideburns” and trim the beards of Hassidim.
https://twitter.com/RadicalStreets/status/1221942753245966337
No one group should get to define who is a “good” Jew and call everyone else antisemitic… the relationship between pro-Israel and white power orgs is very disconcerting,