Agenda item

To receive a report of the Executive Director Core Services requesting the Council to consider the adoption by the Council of the Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of Anti-Semitism.

The report of the Executive Director Core Services requesting the Council to consider the adoption by the Council of the Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of Anti-Semitism was:

Moved by Councillor Sir Steve Houghton CBE – Seconded by Councillor Andrews BEM; and

RESOLVED that the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of Anti-Semitism be adopted as follows:

‘Anti-Semitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred towards Jews.  Rhetorical and physical manifestations of Anti-Semitism are directed towards Jewish of non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious families’.