On January 16, 2017, the leaders and experts of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress participated in the European Forum on Antisemitism, which was organized by the German branch of the American Jewish Committee and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. The EAJC was represented at the event by Secretary General Michael Chlenov, General Council Chairman Josef Zissels, the head of the EAJC antisemitism monitoring and analysis program Vyacheslav Likhachev, and representatives of several Jewish communities taking part in the Congress.

Representatives of Jewish communities and researchers from various European countries spoke about the situation with antisemitism in their respective regions. Professor Michael Chlenov proposed a typology of different European countries, where manifestations of antisemitism differ in their character, intensity and dynamics for various cultural, social, and political reasons. Vyacheslav Likhachev presented a report on antisemitism in Ukraine.

The Forum’s discussions focused on the recent definition of antisemitism, which was recently adopted at the plenary session of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) in Bucharest and whose adoption as the possible official definition of antisemitism was discussed at the meeting of OSCE Ministers of Foreign Affairs in Hamburg. The key element of the new definion is that radical anti-Israeli views are also defined as antisemitic. The definition was not formally accepted because of the stance taken by Russia.