No it isn't legally binding in itself. But the police and CPS can use it to demonstrate antisemitism.
I understand the reason for having the IHRA and let it never happen again, to anyone.
But, admittedly if taken out of historical context, it does read like a total outlawing of criticism to anything Jewish or Israeli.
I don’t get some of the definitions. Why can you not criticise anything Jewish but not equally recognise the same definitions for any religion or ethnicity.
I am not belittling anti-semitism. I just don think every criticism of, for example, a right wing government’s policy is antisemitic.
Perhaps it’s a critic of how they are in danger of becoming what they hate, while remaining the victim.
I looked at the IHRA definitions and noted Ireland are signed up to them, and couldn’t help thinking how a similar list of antiIrish or even anti-Catholic definitions that had they been signed up to in Britain alone, would have come in handy in the last century.
And before you say it, I am not comparing any one event between our countries, even the famine, or the penal laws or the emigration ship deportations, to anything like the holocaust.
But do you understand my point?
The holocaust happened. The IHRA has just reason to pursue their aims, but can you see that there are a lot of other ‘peoples’ that would like the same protections, either now or in the past.