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45 COUNTRIES HAVE ADOPTED THE DEFINITION

In total, 45 countries, including most Western democracies, have adopted the definition—33 IHRA member states, 5 IHRA observer states, and 7 nations unaffiliated with IHRA.

Following nations such as the United States, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and France—among other previous adoptees, the newest additions to this group in 2023 were Latvia, Croatia, and Panama.

312 NGO'S, INSTITUTIONS AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS HAVE ADOPTED THE DEFINITION

37 NGOs, corporations, religious organizations, student clubs, political parties, and other groups adopted the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism in 2023, including 36 public and 1 private entities, bringing the all-time total to 312 (254 public and 58 private).

Another important development in 2023 was the adoption of the definition by the Latin American Parliament, known as the “Parlatino.” In its declaration, the transnational assembly described the adoption of the definition as “an active way of combating hate speech” and “a tribute to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust,” as well as a means to “act specifically against antisemitism in our days and on all other forms of discrimination.”

345 EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
HAVE ADOPTED THE DEFINITION

A key category of the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism adoptions has been institutions of higher education, with 345 overall, and 8 colleges and universities worldwide adopted the definition in 2023.

Despite the troubling increase in antisemitism on campuses, only one U.S. higher education institution, Boston University, adopted the IHRA’s Working Definition of Antisemitism this year. This adoption, however, was only facilitated by the student government, thus limiting its overall efficacy.

However, there is a model for fighting collegiate antisemitism that is worth emulating in the United States and elsewhere. In the United Kingdom, following a sustained campaign spearheaded by the government, 236 colleges and universities adopted the definition from 2019 through 2021. This has given educational institutions in the United Kingdom a critical tool necessary to define and subsequently punish incidents of antisemitism, as the incorporated the definition in the Student Code of Conduct and implemented it at the administrative level.

514 NON-FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ENTITIES
HAVE ADOPTED THE DEFINITION

514 non-federal government entities (including regional, provincial, state, county, and municipal bodies) have adopted the definition, with 47 doing so in 2023. These sub-national governmental bodies include the Polish cities of Warsaw and Plosk; Florence, Italy; and Kansas City, Cincinnati, and Dallas in the United States. Notably, the city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida did so shortly before hosting the 2023 North American Mayors Summit Against Antisemitism organized by CAM this past November.

In the United Kingdom, 271 regional, local, and municipal governments have adopted the definition, as have 123 in the United States, 55 in Argentina, 20 in Canada, 13 in Italy, nine in Germany, eight in France, five in Australia, three each in Spain and Venezuela, and two each in Brazil and Poland.