local governments and antisemitism, November 2026
City Plans on Anti-Antisemitism
Since 2015, cities and other local governments in Europe, North America, Australia and Latin America have issued plans and strategies on antisemitism. Kraków's plan of 2015 is the earliest we found; New York City, Glen Eira and Port Phillip issued theirs in 2026. Over the same years, the lists of adoptions record 545 local governments adopting the working definition of antisemitism of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), most of them British councils between 2017 and 2020.
We collected 45 local plans from 42 places in 15 countries, the 29 national and regional plans above them, every local decision on the definition that we could date, and the census or community figures on each place's Jewish population. The site describes what the plans contain and what the councils' own records show was decided. It does not judge whether a plan or a measure succeeded, since the documents do not record what followed from them.
The site is data-based. Every quotation, count and comparison on it comes from the documents and cites its page. An AI agent coded each plan from the Lab's codebook; the team has not yet checked those codes.
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The page asks twelve questions about a plan: what kind of plan it is, which definition of antisemitism it adopts, whether it treats antisemitism as distinct from other hatreds, whom it draws on, how it describes the problem, how it describes the answer, whether it sets antisemitism in the city's own past, how it treats Israel, whether it mentions Zionism, whether it states a sum of money, whether it names other places as models, and which measures it includes. The possible answers are the ones given by the 45 local plans on antisemitism that we collected. Beside each answer, the page lists the plans that give it and quotes a passage from one of them. At the end, the site assembles a draft plan, with each measure worded as an existing plan words it, and names the plans most and least like it.
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The plans
Every plan with its editions, the strategies the plans commit to, the passages on each city's own past, and the words each plan uses.
the IHRA definition
IHRA definition
Each dated local decision on the IHRA definition, what the council's own record shows was decided, and how adoption spread.
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Set any two variables against each other, such as the Jewish share of residents and the definition a plan names, and see which places fall in each cell.
Map of the plans
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the documents
- Browse the documentsFilter every document by country, kind and definition.
- Search the textSearch every page of every saved document in its original language.
- DownloadThe documents as zip files by country, with the tables behind each page.
the plans
- The plansEvery plan, shown by its first page, with the date of each edition.
- Anti-antisemitism strategiesThe actions the plans commit to, by strategy and by the body that carries them out.
- The city's own pastThe passages in which plans refer to their city's history.
- Word profilesHow often each plan uses the words of 15 topics.
- MapPlans, IHRA decisions and pledges, month by month since 2015.
the IHRA definition
- IHRA adoptionsEach dated local decision, with the council's own record.
- DiffusionThe share of councils that adopted in Britain, Canada and Australia.
- DefinitionsEach definition of antisemitism the documents name, and others in circulation.
- PledgesCities that signed multi-city pledges and declarations.
context and method
- Jewish communitiesThe places with a plan, beside the size and make-up of their Jewish communities.
- Coding frameworkThe codebook, its categories, rules and the team's decisions.
- MethodsHow the documents were found and sorted.
The corpus records which documents each government issued and when, without assessing the measures in them or how far any was carried out. A place absent from the corpus may still have a plan, since several council websites block automated downloads.
a project of
Lab for the Global Study of Antisemitism
This site is a team project of the Lab for the Global Study of Antisemitism, housed in the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto.
Ron Levi and Sol Goldberg
ron.levi@utoronto.ca
Research Team: Cypress Chernik, Lir Josefsohn, and Arianna Seijts, all of whom are undergraduate interns at the Lab for the Global Study of Antisemitism.
This is a work in progress. Corrections are welcome.