The House voted Wednesday on a bill to change how antisemitism is investigated in schools. The final tally — 320-91 — masks how controversial the legislation is or that some Democratic lawmakers voted for it while effectively under duress. Seizing on the pervasive “chaos on campus” narrative, lawmakers passed a bill that doesn’t work to protect Jews on college campuses as its supporters claim, but to stifle dissent around the United States’ Israel policies and criticism of the Israeli...
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) announced she was voting against a bill to combat antisemitism, and in her reasoning, she invoked an antisemitic trope. The House voted to pass the bipartisan Antisemitism Awareness Act on a 320 to 91 vote, with 70 Democrats and 21 Republicans voting against the bill. CNN’s Melanie Zanona reports.
Seeing videos of anti-Israel mobs harassing, intimidating, and even assaulting Jewish students on campuses nationwide, it is tempting simply to write off those institutions of “higher education” as irredeemable. To an extent, the United States would be a better place if Columbia, Harvard, and Yale were ignored. But as unappealing as many universities have become, […]
Wednesday night the U.S. House passed a bill that would broaden the definition of antisemitism giving colleges and universities more cover to regulate discriminatory rhetoric on campus.
Over the past two weeks, American college and university campuses have witnessed an explosion of antisemitic rhetoric and conduct that once had been thought to Read More
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Campaign Against Antisemitism's chief knew what he was getting into when he confronted the police at a protest. The approach helps nobody.
Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York said during floor debate on the bill Wednesday, “There is no excuse for bigotry, threats or violence directed at anyone, anywhere, and it is imperative that we confront the scourge of antisemitism, and Congress can help, but this legislation is not the answer.”
If history proves anything, it shows that if civil rights, human rights, equality and even the right to live are to be denied to a class of people, they must first be stripped of their inherent value as human beings.
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