The Jerusalem Declaration on Anti-Semitism is not, as some argue, ‘an Orientalist text’.
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Chair, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
The Jerusalem Declaration on Anti-Semitism is not, as some argue, ‘an Orientalist text’.
![Demonstrators take part in protests outside a meeting of the Labour Party during the party's discussion of the definition of anti-Semitism [File: Reuters/Henry Nicholls] (Reuters)](https://aljazeeranews-3fuh52rgrl.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2018-09-04T101810Z_470609054_RC1E42412F30_RTRMADP_3_BRITAIN-POLITICS-LABOUR.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)