House to vote on antisemitism bill amid unrest on college campusesThe bill was introduced by a bipartisan group of lawmakers calling to add a more specific definition of antisemitism than what exists in the Civil Rights Act.
House to vote on antisemitism bill amid unrest on college campusesThe bill was introduced by a bipartisan group of lawmakers calling to add a more specific definition of antisemitism than what exists in the Civil Rights Act.
Ken Stern, the person who wrote the definition adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, testified against a basically identical version of the bill in a previous Congress. He basically said it was meant to help governments collect data on antisemitism and was never intended to be enshrined in law since some of the examples in the definition aren’t automatically antisemitism. He was concerned making the Dept. of Education use it would chill legitimate speech on college campuses.
Unfortunately, chilling legitimate speech on college campuses is the true goal of the bill so here we are.