The Highland Park City Council voted 7-0 to adopt both the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of Jew-hatred and the accompanying contemporary examples of antisemitism on Monday.

Annette Lidawer, whose official council biography lists affiliations with Jewish Women’s Foundation of Chicago, Jewish Child and Family Services and Aitz Chaim Center for Jewish Living, introduced the ordinance , which she called “true landmark legislation.”

The bill “helps our staff and city identify and prevent antisemitic behavior and further protects our residents,” she said during the council meeting.

“Why in a city as tolerant and clearly committed to protecting its residents do we need to define antisemitism, and why now?” she asked. “The answer is painfully evident in

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