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    Working Definition of anti-Semitism The purpose of this document is to provide a practical guide for identifying incidents, collecting data, and supporting the implementation and enforcement of legislation dealing with antisemitism. Working definition:“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.” Antisemitic acts are criminal when they are so defined bylaw (for example, denial of the Holocaust or distribution of anti-Semitic materials in some countries). Criminal acts are antisemitic when the targets of attacks, whether they are people or property—such as buildings, schools, places of worship and cemeteries—are selected because they are, or are perceived to be, Jewish or linked to Jews. Antisemitic discrimination is the denial to Jews of opportunities or services available to others and is illegal in many countries.

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    Working Definition of anti-Semitism The purpose of this document is to provide a practical guide for identifying incidents, collecting data, and supporting the implementation and enforcement of legislation dealing with antisemitism. Working definition:“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.” Antisemitic acts are criminal when they are so defined bylaw (for example, denial of the Holocaust or distribution of anti-Semitic materials in some countries). Criminal acts are antisemitic when the targets of attacks, whether they are people or property—such as buildings, schools, places of worship and cemeteries—are selected because they are, or are perceived to be, Jewish or linked to Jews. Antisemitic discrimination is the denial to Jews of opportunities or services available to others and is illegal in many countries.

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    Working Definition of anti-Semitism by the European Union Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) , predecessor of the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA)

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    Working Definition of anti-Semitism The purpose of this document is to provide a practical guide for identifying incidents, collecting data, and supporting the implementation and enforcement of legislation dealing with antisemitism. Working definition:“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.” Antisemitic acts are criminal when they are so defined bylaw (for example, denial of the Holocaust or distribution of anti-Semitic materials in some countries). Criminal acts are antisemitic when the targets of attacks, whether they are people or property—such as buildings, schools, places of worship and cemeteries—are selected because they are, or are perceived to be, Jewish or linked to Jews. Antisemitic discrimination is the denial to Jews of opportunities or services available to others and is illegal in many countries.

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    Working Definition of anti-Semitism The purpose of this document is to provide a practical guide for identifying incidents, collecting data, and supporting the implementation and enforcement of legislation dealing with antisemitism. Working definition:“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.” Antisemitic acts are criminal when they are so defined bylaw (for example, denial of the Holocaust or distribution of anti-Semitic materials in some countries). Criminal acts are antisemitic when the targets of attacks, whether they are people or property—such as buildings, schools, places of worship and cemeteries—are selected because they are, or are perceived to be, Jewish or linked to Jews. Antisemitic discrimination is the denial to Jews of opportunities or services available to others and is illegal in many countries.

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    WORKING DEFINITION OF ANTISEMITISM

    The purpose of this document is to provide a practical guide for identifying incidents, collecting data, and
    supporting the implementation and enforcement of legislation dealing with antisemitism.

    Working definition: Antisemitism is a certain perception of J ews, which may be expressed as hatred toward
    J ews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward J ewish or non-J ewish
    individuals and/or their property, toward J ewish community institutions and religious facilities.

    In addition, such manifestations could also target the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity.
    Antisemitism frequently charges Jews with conspiring to harm humanity, and it is often used to blame Jews for
    why things go wrong. It is expressed in speech, writing, visual forms and action, and employs sinister
    stereotypes and negative character traits.

    Contemporary examples of antisemitism 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.
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    Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the
    power of Jews as collective such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish
    conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions.
    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 (e.g. gas chambers) or intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish
    people at the hands of National Socialist Germany and its supporters and accomplices during World War
    II (the Holocaust).
    Accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.
    Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than
    to the interests of their own nations.

    Examples of the ways in which antisemitism manifests itself with regard to the state of Israel taking into account
    the overall context could include:

    Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State
    of Israel is a racist endeavor.
    Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other
    democratic nation.
    Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g., claims of Jews killing Jesus or
    blood libel) to characterize Israel or Israelis.
    Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.
    Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.

    However, criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic.

    Antisemitic acts are criminal when they are so defined by law (for example, denial of the Holocaust or
    distribution of antisemitic materials in some countries).
    Criminal acts are antisemitic when the targets of attacks, whether they are people or propertysuch as
    buildings, schools, places of worship and cemeteriesare selected because they are, or are perceived to be,
    Jewish or linked to Jews.
    Antisemitic discrimination is the denial to Jews of opportunities or services available to others and is illegal in
    many countries.

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