“Jews” are an ethnic, religious, national identity and heritage. There are approximately 15 million Jews in the world today, and they are the historical continuation of the national identity described in the Bible. 

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“Judaism” is the historic, biblical faith and way of life of Jews. 

“Israel” denotes the nation of the Jews, its ancestral homeland, and the only Jewish state in the modern world, home to roughly half the Jews in the world. 

“Zionism” is the belief that, like other nations, the Jewish people have a legitimate right to national self-determination and independence in their ancestral homeland. 

“Jew-hatred” (antisemitism). The best, most accepted definition of "antisemitism" is the IHRA Working Definition, which lists contemporary examples of antisemitism in public life, the media, schools, the workplace, and in the religious sphere that could, taking into account the overall context, include, but are not limited to:

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• Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion.
   

• Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as 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.
   

• 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.
   

• 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).
   

• Accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.
   

• 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.
   

• Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.
   

• Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.
   

• Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g., claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize Israel or Israelis.
   

• Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.
   

• Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.