{"id":73013,"date":"2018-07-17T14:10:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T18:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=73013"},"modified":"2018-07-17T18:16:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T22:16:13","slug":"bbc-chief-rabbi-labour-should-toughen-up-anti-semitism-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=73013","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Chief rabbi: Labour should toughen up anti-Semitism code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The code does endorse the IHRA&#8217;s working definition of anti-Semitism and includes behaviours it lists as likely to be regarded as anti-Semitic &#8211; but critics point out that it leaves out four examples from that definition:<\/p>\n<p>Accusing Jewish people of being more loyal to Israel than their home country<br \/>\nClaiming that Israel&#8217;s existence as a state is a racist endeavour<br \/>\nRequiring higher standards of behaviour from Israel than other nations<br \/>\nComparing contemporary Israeli policies to those of the Nazis<\/p>\n<p>Chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis attacked the omission of these examples and said it was &#8220;astonishing that the Labour Party presumes it is more qualified&#8221; to define anti-Semitism than the Jewish community.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-politics-44853391\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The code does endorse the IHRA&#8217;s working definition of anti-Semitism and includes behaviours it lists as likely to be regarded as anti-Semitic &#8211; but critics point out that it leaves out four examples from that definition: Accusing Jewish people of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=73013\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,199,168,429,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-judaism","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73014,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73013\/revisions\/73014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}