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‘The UN Report on Com­batting Antisemitism to Eliminate Dis­crim­in­a­tion and Intol­er­ance Based on Religion or Belief’, to which the ECAJ con­trib­uted, was released on 23 September 2019. It includes, at para­graphs 33 and 38, detailed citations from the ECAJ’s Annual Report on Antisemitism in Australia: https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Religion/A_74_47921ADV.pdf.

This is one of the rare times that the UN has addressed the issue of antisemitism, including left-wing antisemitism, seriously and in detail.  It condemns as antisemitism certain forms of anti-Israel discourse and pro-BDS discourse and provides support for the IHRA Working Defin­i­tion of Antisemitism.  The report “stresses that antisemitism, if left unchecked by gov­ern­ments, poses risks not only to Jews, but also to members of other minority com­munit­ies. Antisemitism is toxic to democracy and mutual respect of citizens and threatens all societies in which it goes unchal­lenged.”

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