An Arizona bill requiring the state’s schools to teach about the Holocaust and other genocides passed earlier this year by the Arizona House of Representatives has become stuck in limbo in the state Senate over an amendment to include the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism.
Republican State Senator Paul Boyer has stated that the bill must include the IHRA definition because the bill is not only about Holocaust education but also about the present and the future, and fighting against all forms of current anti-Semitism, especially Holocaust inversion. The term describes the anti-Semitic trope of accusing Jews or Israel of being Nazis or oppressors. The IHRA definition covers such contemporary forms of anti-Semitism.
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