Europe can’t fight Jew-hatred without a working definition of anti-Semitism – OPINION: A German court’s failure to rule a synagogue torching an anti-Jewish act illustrates the urgent need to adopt the IHRA Definition | Timesofisrael

In the summer of 2014, a synagogue in Wuppertal, Germany was firebombed. Accepting the explanation of the three Palestinian Germans who committed the arson but told the court they were demonstrating against Israel’s war in Gaza, the judge ruled the attack an act of protest rather than anti-Semitism.