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The International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) has purchased Rockingham Speedway, a historic motorsports venue, with plans to restore and enhance it as a multi-use entertainment destination, including hosting major racing events and community activities, starting with an Easter weekend NASCAR event in 2025.
The Biden administration has launched a 60-page National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism, which includes 100 new actions to raise awareness of antisemitism and its threat to American democracy, protect Jewish communities, reverse the normalization of antisemitism, and build cross-community solidarity. The plan embraces a “working definition” of antisemitism advanced by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, whose examples of antisemitism include using “double standards” when criticizing Israel and calling it a “racist endeavor.” The plan also calls on tech companies to establish a zero tolerance policy for hate speech and pledges increased funds to physical security of synagogues.
Sixty human and civil rights organizations have urged the United Nations Secretary-General not to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, stating that it has been used to suppress criticism of Israel. The groups have asked the UN to ensure that its efforts to combat anti-Semitism do not undermine fundamental human rights, including the right to speak and organize in support of Palestinian rights. The IHRA definition has been used to wrongly label criticism of Israel as anti-Semitic, and thus chill and sometimes suppress non-violent protest, activism, and speech critical of Israel and/or Zionism, including in the US and Europe.