Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism - Revision history

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 *Phil Bevin (British socialist writer) criticised the JDA in a detailed post (widely shared and promoted by David Miller on X). He wrote: “Rather than pinning down antisemitism as a specific form of racism, the Jerusalem Declaration opens it up for specious argument and debate.” Bevin argued that by seeking compromise with liberal-Zionist scholars, the document restricts the left’s ability to thoroughly scrutinise Israel’s role in global military and financial structures.<ref name="BevinPost">Phil Bevin, quoted in X post by @Tracking_Power (promoted by David Miller), 2021, https://x.com/Tracking_Power/status/1959219818596368621</ref>
 *BDS Movement / Palestinian civil society stated: “Palestinians, the Palestine solidarity movement, and all progressives are urged to approach the JDA with a critical mind and caution due to its flaws… it is focused on Palestine/Israel and Zionism, unjustifiably reinforcing attempts to couple anti-Jewish racism with the struggle for Palestinian liberation.” They criticised the exclusion of Palestinian scholars from drafting.<ref name="BDSJDA">BDS Movement, "A Palestinian civil society critique of the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism", 24 March 2021, https://bdsmovement.net/A-Palestinian-Civil-Society-Critique-JDA</ref>
-*[[Muhannad Ayyash]] (M. M. Ayyash), Associate Professor of Sociology at Mount Royal University. “The JDA is an orientalist text that fails to produce true opposition to the core problem of the IHRA definition: the silencing and erasure of Palestine and Palestinians.” “I am saying that they all have signed an orientalist text.” Ayyash criticises the preamble and guidelines for framing Palestinian hostility to Israel as potentially “an emotion that a Palestinian person feels” rather than a legitimate political response to occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid.<ref>Mark Muhannad Ayyash, “The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism is an orientalist text”, Al Jazeera, 21 April 2021. Direct link: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/4/21/the-jerusalem-declaration-on-antisemitism-is-an-orientalist-text</ref>
+*[[Muhannad Ayyash]] (M. M. Ayyash), Associate Professor of Sociology at [[Mount Royal University]]: “The JDA is an orientalist text that fails to produce true opposition to the core problem of the IHRA definition: the silencing and erasure of Palestine and Palestinians.” “I am saying that they all have signed an orientalist text.” Ayyash criticises the preamble and guidelines for framing Palestinian hostility to Israel as potentially “an emotion that a Palestinian person feels” rather than a legitimate political response to occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid. He argues that the declaration presents Palestinians as unreasonably "hostile, reactionary, and emotional". Ayyash also challenges the declaration's 10th guideline, which categorizes "Denying the right of Jews in the State of Israel to exist and flourish, collectively and individually, as Jews, in accordance with the principle of equality" as inherently antisemitic, arguing that "there is very little substantive difference between this guideline and the IHRA definition's claim that arguing that Israel is a racist endeavour constitutes antisemitism".<ref>{{Cite news|last=Ayyash|first=Mark Muhannad|date=April 21, 2021|title=The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism is an orientalist text|work=[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]]|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/4/21/the-jerusalem-declaration-on-antisemitism-is-an-orientalist-text|access-date=May 22, 2021}}</ref>
 *[[Palestine Solidarity Campaign]] (PSC) warned that the JDA’s hyper-focus on speech regarding Israel risks a “chilling effect” on Palestinian advocacy and mistakenly separates anti-Jewish hatred from white-supremacist roots.<ref name="PSCJDA">Palestine Solidarity Campaign, "PSC response to the Jerusalem Declaration on antisemitism", 26 March 2021, https://palestinecampaign.org/psc-response-to-the-jerusalem-declaration-on-antisemitism/</ref>
 *[[Tom Suarez]] warned that the JDA validates the flawed IHRA definition and is “structurally defective” because it allows Zionism to dictate the boundaries of anti-racist criticism. He also criticised the “all-Jewish affair” drafting process that excluded Palestinian input.<ref name="SuarezMondoweiss">Tom Suarez, "The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism: a critical view", 31 March 2021, https://mondoweiss.net/2021/03/the-jerusalem-declaration-on-antisemitism-a-critical-view/</ref>

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 *[[Community Security Trust]] (CST) stated: “The Jerusalem Declaration has some serious flaws… Instead, it reads like guidelines for an academic seminar on Israel and Palestine… calling this a definition of antisemitism and suggesting it could replace a widely-accepted practical tool used by investigators and hate crime monitors is irresponsible and risks setting back genuine efforts to tackle antisemitism.”<ref name="CSTBlog">Community Security Trust, "The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism: a flawed definition that risks setting back efforts to tackle antisemitism", 1 April 2021, https://cst.org.uk/news/blog/2021/04/01/the-jerusalem-declaration-on-antisemitism-a-flawed-definition-that-risks-setting-back-efforts-to-tackle-antisemitism</ref>
 *[[BESA Center]] ([[Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies]]) published an article titled “The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism Is Itself Antisemitic”.<ref name="BESA">BESA Center, "The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism Is Itself Antisemitic", 3 October 2021, https://besacenter.org/the-jerusalem-declaration-on-antisemitism-is-itself-antisemitic/</ref>
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 | Professor Dr., Director of the [[Center for Research on Antisemitism]], Technische Universität Berlin
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-== Signatories ==
+=== Signatories ===
 The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism was initially signed by around 210 scholars and has since grown to over 370 signatories. The full updated list is maintained on the official JDA website: https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/signatories/

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	==People==		==People==
		+	=== Coordinators ===

		+	The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism was coordinated by the following scholars:<ref name="JDAOfficial"/>
		+
		+	{\| class="wikitable"
		+	! Name
		+	! Affiliation
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[Seth Anziska]]
		+	\| Mohamed S. Farsi-Polonsky Associate Professor of Jewish-Muslim Relations, [[University College London]]
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[Aleida Assmann]]
		+	\| Professor Dr., Literary Studies, Holocaust, Trauma and Memory Studies, [[Konstanz University]]
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[Alon Confino]] (Z"L)
		+	\| Pen Tishkach Chair of Holocaust Studies, Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Director [[Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies]], [[University of Massachusetts, Amherst]]
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[Emily Dische-Becker]]
		+	\| Journalist
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[David Feldman]]
		+	\| Professor, Director of the [[Institute for the Study of Antisemitism]], [[Birkbeck, University of London]]
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[Amos Goldberg]]
		+	\| Professor, The Jonah M. Machover Chair in Holocaust Studies, Head of the Avraham Harman Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry, [[The Hebrew University of Jerusalem]]
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[Brian Klug]]
		+	\| Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, St. Benet’s Hall, Oxford; Member of the Philosophy Faculty, [[Oxford University]]
		+	\|-
		+	\| [[Stefanie Schüler-Springorum]]
		+	\| Professor Dr., Director of the [[Center for Research on Antisemitism]], Technische Universität Berlin
		+	\|}
	== Signatories ==		== Signatories ==

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 *Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL) described the JDA as “a useful corrective” but maintained that any formal definition risks being weaponised by party elites to suppress dissent on the socialist left.<ref name="JVLJDA">Jewish Voice for Labour, official statement on the Jerusalem Declaration, March 2021, https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/jerusalem-declaration-on-antisemitism/</ref>
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 | [[Peter Beinart]]
-| Professor of Journalism and Political Science, The City University of New York (CUNY); Editor at large, Jewish Currents
+| Professor of Journalism and Political Science, [[The City University of New York]] (CUNY); Editor at large, [[Jewish Currents]]
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 | [[Elissa Bemporad]]
-| Jerry and William Ungar Chair in East European Jewish History and the Holocaust; Professor of History, Queens College and The City University of New York (CUNY)
+| Jerry and William Ungar Chair in East European Jewish History and the Holocaust; Professor of History, [[Queens College]] and [[The City University of New York]] (CUNY)
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 | [[Sarah Bunin Benor]]
-| Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
+| Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies, [[Hebrew Union College]]-Jewish Institute of Religion
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 | [[Wolfgang Benz]]
-| Professor Dr., fmr. Director Center for Research on Antisemitism, Technische Universität Berlin
+| Professor Dr., fmr. Director Center for Research on Antisemitism, [[Technische Universität Berlin]]
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 | [[Doris Bergen]]
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 | [[Werner Bergmann]]
-| Professor Emeritus, Sociologist, Center for Research on Antisemitism, Technische Universität Berlin
+| Professor Emeritus, Sociologist, Center for Research on Antisemitism, [[Technische Universität Berlin]]
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 | [[Michael Berkowitz]]
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 | [[Louise Bethlehem]]
-| Associate Professor and Chair of the Program in Cultural Studies, English and Cultural Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
+| Associate Professor and Chair of the Program in Cultural Studies, English and Cultural Studies, The [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]]
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 | [[David Biale]]
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 | [[Daniel Blatman]]
-| Professor, Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
+| Professor, Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, The [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]]
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 | [[Omri Boehm]]
-| Associate Professor of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research, New York
+| Associate Professor of Philosophy, [[The New School for Social Research]], New York
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 | [[Daniel Boyarin]]
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 | [[Christina von Braun]]
-| Professor Dr., Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin
+| Professor Dr., Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies, [[Humboldt University]], Berlin
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 | [[Micha Brumlik]]
-| Professor Dr., fmr. Director of Fritz Bauer Institut-Geschichte und Wirkung des Holocaust, Frankfurt am Main
+| Professor Dr., fmr. Director of [[Fritz Bauer Institut-Geschichte und Wirkung des Holocaust]], Frankfurt am Main
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 | [[Jose Brunner]]
-| Professor Emeritus, Buchmann Faculty of Law and Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science, [[Tel Aviv University]]
+| Professor Emeritus, Buchmann Faculty of Law and [[Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science]], [[Tel Aviv University]]
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 | [[Darcy Buerkle]]
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 | [[John Bunzl]]
-| Professor Dr., The Austrian Institute for International Politics
+| Professor Dr., The [[Austrian Institute for International Politics]]
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 | [[Michelle U. Campos]]
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 | [[Naomi Chazan]]
-| Professor Emerita of Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
+| Professor Emerita of Political Science, The [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]]
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 | [[Bryan Cheyette]]
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 | [[Raya Cohen]]
-| Dr., fmr. Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University; fmr. Department of Sociology, University of Naples Federico II
+| Dr., fmr. Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University; fmr. Department of Sociology, [[University of Naples Federico II]]
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 | [[Alon Confino]]