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CAUT opposes the adoption of or reliance on the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism and the Canadian Handbook on the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism as a basis for defining what constitutes antisemitism or for otherwise suppressing speech deemed as controversial, troubling, or offensive in Canadian universities.

Independent Jewish Voices (IJV), United Jewish People’s Order (UJPO), and the Jewish Faculty Network (JFN) steering committee, object to the publication today of a handbook offering guidelines for the application of the widely-discredited International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) redefinition of antisemitism. The handbook was mandated by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2021 and issued today by Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism, Deborah Lyons.

As members of the Steering Committee of the Jewish Faculty Network, we write with regard to Bill 166, the “Strengthening Accountability and Student Support Act, 2024” which amends the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities Act.

Jewish Faculty Against the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism

Arabic translation of Jewish Faculty Against the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism