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The House is set to vote Wednesday on an antisemitism bill as pro-Palestinian protests roil colleges throughout the country.. The bill, titled the Antisemitism Awareness Act, would mandate that ...
Many Jews and Jewish and Israeli organizations oppose the antisemitism definition in House Bill 1002.
The House passed legislation Wednesday that would establish a broader definition of antisemitism for the Department of Education to enforce anti-discrimination laws, the latest response from ...
If passed by the Senate and signed into law, the bill would broaden the legal definition of antisemitism to include the “targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity." Critics say the move would have a chilling effect on free speech throughout college campuses.
The bill has bipartisan support and bipartisan opposition.
Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Senator George Voinovich (R-OH) introduced a less strenuous version of Lantos' bill, which called for a one-time State Department report on antisemitism and required the inclusion of antisemitism in the State Department's Annual Report on International Religious Freedom and Country Reports on Human Rights ...
The House voted on Wednesday to pass the bipartisan Antisemitism Awareness Act, a vote that comes amid heightened concerns over antisemitism with Israel at war with Hamas and as pro-Palestinian ...
The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote this week on a bipartisan bill aimed at cracking down on antisemitism on college campuses amid a wave of pro-Palestinian protests.