This past week the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C united with scores of institutions and nations in taking up the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definitions of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial.

 

The announcement of support came after a High Level Forum on Global Antisemitism hosted by the United Nations. The museum joined delegations from Canada, the EU, Israel, and the United States to confront the increasing sentiments of anti-Semitism globally.

As Robert Williams, the Museum’s senior representative on the US delegation to IHRA declared, “These (IHRA) definitions provide guidance for international bodies, governments, businesses, and NGOs to understand contemporary forms of antisemitism, so that they can bolster their responses to this particularly vicious form of hate.”