An-Najah News - A group of 122 Palestinian and Arab academics, journalists, and intellectuals expressed their concerns about the anti-Semitism definition in Europe and North America.

The United Nations-declared International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People and their struggle for freedom, self-determination, and independence from the decades-old Israeli occupation.

The legitimate struggle of the Palestinian people and their supporters against the Israeli occupation and apartheid system.

The letter said, “We, the undersigned Palestinian and Arab academics, journalists and intellectuals are hereby stating our views regarding the definition of antisemitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).

“The fight against antisemitism has been increasingly instrumentalized by the Israeli government and its supporters in an effort to delegitimize the Palestinian cause and silence defenders of Palestinian rights in recent years.

Diverting the necessary struggle against antisemitism to serve such an agenda threatens to debase this struggle and hence to discredit and weaken it,” added the letter writers.

The letter said that the IHRA definition conflates Judaism with Zionism in assuming that all Jews are Zionists and that the state of Israel in its current reality embodies the self-determination of all Jews. 

The fight against antisemitism should not be turned into a stratagem to delegitimize the fight against the oppression of the Palestinians, the denial of their rights, and the continued occupation of their land.”“We profoundly disagree with this.