On December 4th a report titled “France anti-Semitism: Jewish graves defaced with Nazi swastikas” was published on the ‘Europe’ page of the BBC News website.
Towards the end of that report – throughout which the BBC once again used the wrong spelling of the word antisemitism – readers were told that: [emphasis added]
“On Tuesday night, France’s National Assembly passed a draft resolution that includes hatred of Israel as an example of anti-Semitism.
The definition, by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, has already been adopted by the European Parliament and several other countries.
A number of MPs from President Emmanuel Macron’s ruling party voted against the resolution.”
The IHRA definition of course does not include “hatred of Israel” as an example of antisemitism. It does include the following:
- Accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.
- Accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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