How the record is built
How records are established, what gets published, what never does.
Scope
The record covers acts in the physical world: damage, desecration, arson, theft, assault, delivered threats. A material target must have been hit. Speech, publications, demonstrations and online content are excluded — not because they are trivial, but because a record of facts must be able to say where and when.
Who characterises
TorahGuard never characterises an act as antisemitic. Each record reports who did — police, prosecutor, court, monitoring organisation, news outlet, community representative — and reproduces their exact wording, in their language. The definition of antisemitism is subject to documented disagreement; taking sides would mean leaving the record for commentary.
What gets listed
Every record is listed, with no reliability ranking. The site attaches no "verified" or "unverified" label: each record carries its sources, says who characterised the facts, and leaves the reader to judge. A record resting on a single local outlet appears alongside one confirmed by a prosecutor — the difference is legible in the sources, not in a verdict we would pass.
What is never published
No personal name, neither alleged perpetrator nor victim. No role that would let someone be recognised. No origin, nationality, religion or immigration status attributed to a perpetrator. No judgemental adjective in the site own prose. These prohibitions are enforced by fixed rules, on top of model review: a legal safeguard never rests on a machine judgement alone.
Correcting a record
An error, a source that retracts, a fact reclassified: report it as a contribution under the record concerned. A withdrawn record leaves a trace of its withdrawal rather than disappearing.