Quarterly Updates for (1 Jan 2019 — 31 Mar 2019)
After an increase in anti-Semitic incidents in France, the French President Emmanuel Macron announced in a speech on 20 February that France is adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism. This definition of anti-Semitism is controversial as it conflates criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism (for more on the conflation of criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism and the IHRA working definition of anti-Semitism, see the IPS publication, Zionism, Israel, and Anti-Semitism: Dangerous Conflation).