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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Committee chair Virginia Foxx (R-NC) led the hearing. On December 5, 2023, the United States House Committee on Education and the Workforce held a hearing on antisemitism on college campuses. The committee called a few university leaders to testify, including the presidents of Harvard University ...
The House passed by a large margin a bill by Rep. Mike Lawler of Rockland County that would set one definition of antisemitism for colleges to police.
The White House subsequently announced on December 12 the formation of the Interagency Policy Committee on Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Related Forms of Bias and Discrimination coordinated by the Domestic Policy Council and the United States National Security Council to "address antisemitism and other forms of religious bigotry." The group's ...
A bipartisan bill called the Protecting Students on Campus Act, recently reintroduced in the Senate, aims to make it easier for students to file civil rights complaints against their schools. Sens.