Ira Forman, the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism at the State Department, recently addressed the third conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Coalition for Combatting Antisemitism (ICCA). Against a backdrop of increased anxiety around the surge of antisemitism in Europe, he offered a hopeful perspective: “We may not be able to turn it totally off, but we can turn down the faucet of anti-Semitism.”

Forman recognized that antisemitism “is evolving into new, contemporary forms of hatred, racism, and political, social, and cultural discrimination against Jews.” He specifically noted incidents in Scandinavia where criticism of Israel was used as a pretext for antisemitic attacks. He argued that a carefully crafted working definition of antisemitism will aid democratic governments and civil society in Europe to more effectively combat antisemitism.

http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/blog/ira-forman-addresses-rising-tide-antisemitism-inter-parliamentary-coalition-combatting

Jews, I guess are not familiar with the hyphen…