
LA — The Los Angeles City Council’s 11-0 vote on Tuesday to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)’s Working Definition of Antisemitism has drawn widespread praise.
Rabbi Meyer H. May, executive director of the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, said, “The unanimous L.A. City Council vote to adopt the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism is a clear and powerful statement by the council that anti-Semitism has no place in our city.