Montgomery County is Maryland's most populous region, encompassing the heavily Jewish town of Silver Spring as well as several heavily populated places in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area.
BDS has made no secret about its ultimate agenda: demonizing, delegitimizing and singling out Israel, with the ultimate goal of destroying it.
At a conference by the Combat Antisemitism Movement. the WZO and NGO Monitor, world leaders discussed the misappropriation of the term "apartheid" and its use against Israel.
The multi-pronged plan calls on governments and public officials to take on a number of tasks.
The IHRA’s working definition fits the contemporary definition of antisemitism, holding that hatred toward Israel is antisemitic.
Israel’s year of IHRA presidency coincides with the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and the end of World War II.
DAIA, an umbrella organization of Argentine Jewish communities, will investigate whether Bodart's comments violated Argentine anti-discrimination laws.
The state is also the 27th to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism.
The year 2025 will mark the 25th anniversary of IHRA’s establishment and 80 years to the end of World War II.
In Executive Order 2022-06D, called “Defining and Combating Antisemitism”, Governor DeWine encouraged “all federal and local governments and governmental agencies and entities to adopt it as well.”