A/74/358 things go wrong”. It is expressed in speech, writing, visual forms and action, and employs sinister stereotypes and negative character traits; (b) Contemporary examples of antisemitism in public life, the media, schools, the workplace and in the religious sphere could, taking into account the overall context, include, but are not limited to: (i) Calling for, aiding or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion; (ii) Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or about the power of Jews as a collective, such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions; (iii) Accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group, or even for acts committed by non-Jews; (iv) Denying the fact, scope, mechanisms (e.g. gas chambers) or intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of National Socialist Germany and its supporters and accomplices during World War II (the Holocaust); (v) Accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a State, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust; (vi) Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations; (vii) Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g. by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavour; (viii) Applying double standards by requiring of Israel a behaviour not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation; (ix) Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g. claims of Jews killing Jesus or “blood libel”) to characterize Israel or Israelis; (x) Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis; (xi) Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the State of Israel. 52. According to the working definition, antisemitic acts are criminal when they are so defined by law (e.g. denial of the Holocaust or distribution of antisemitic materials in some countries). Criminal acts are antisemitic when the targets of attacks, whether they are people or property, such as buildings, schools, places of worship and cemeteries, are selected because they are, or are perceived to be, Jewish or linked to Jews. Antisemitic discrimination is the denial to Jews of opportunities or services available to others and is illegal in many countries. 53. The definition has been adopted by a number of countries and agencies, 77 some of which have taken diverse approaches in the ways they have utilized it. It has been endorsed by the European Parliament, which has recommended its adoption by States __________________ 77 19-16257 As at August 2019, the working definition had been adopted by Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czechia, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Lithuania, North Macedonia, the Netherlands, the Republic of Moldova, Romania, Slovakia and the United Kingdom. It is also used by the United States Department of State and Department of Education, and by the Ministry of Education of Greece. 15/23