La Trobe University shamefully adopts Jerusalem Declaration alongside deficient version of International Definition of Antisemitism 

La Trobe University, in Melbourne, Victoria, has adopted a deficient version of the International Definition of Antisemitism, and has also adopted the Jerusalem Declaration alongside it. 

The Jerusalem Declaration is a wrecking document intended to undermine the globally-recognised Definition.

The University’s adoption of the Definition omits the eleven integral examples, and is therefore deficient. 

A statement on the University’s website reads: “The University was concerned that adoption of the [International Definition] with the eleven examples could pose potential limitations to academic freedom and reasonable political debate which could be misclassified as antisemitic behaviour.”

Britain was the first country in the world to adopt the International Definition, something for which Campaign Against Antisemitism and Lord Pickles worked hard over many meetings with officials at Downing Street. 

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