Judgment Approved by the court for handing down.
[2025] EWHC 1170 (Admin)
AC-2024-LON-001310
HUSAIN v SRA
European Union Member States) and 8 observer countries. In 2016, it decided to adopt
a “non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism”:
“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.”
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On its website, after setting out the definition, the IHRA says this:
“To guide IHRA in its work, the following examples may serve as
illustrations:
Manifestations might include the targeting of the state of Israel, conceived
as a Jewish collectivity. However, criticism of Israel similar to that levelled
against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic. 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.
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.