60 groups urge UN to avoid IHRA antisemitism definition – Signatories include the U.S. Presbyterian Church, the United Methodist Church, the American Civil Liberties Union, B’Tselem, Human Rights Watch and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights. | JNS.org

(April 10, 2023 / JNS) Sixty groups that often oppose Israel urged the United Nations to reject the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism.
The definition—adopted by 39 countries, including the United States and Israel—“has often been used to wrongly label criticism of Israel as antisemitic,” the groups stated.
Signatories include the U.S. Presbyterian Church, which has some 1.19 million members, and the global ministry arm of the United Methodist Church, which has a membership of more than 12 million, as well as the American Civil Liberties Union, B’Tselem, Human Rights Watch and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.