Over 100 scholars specializing in Jewish history, the Holocaust and anti-Semitism have urged the United Nations not to adopt a controversial definition of anti-Semitism propagated by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). The statement, signed by 128 scholars, denounced the IHRA definition as “politicized” and said it could be used to “discredit and silence legitimate criticism of Israel’s policies”. The signatories included prominent Jewish and Israeli academics such as David Feldman, the Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism, and Omer Bartov, a l…