Farnoush Amiri – AP May 1, 2024
The proposed new legislation comes as widespread protests over Israel’s actions in Gaza have rocked U.S. universities.
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 lawmakers to a nationwide student protest movement over the Israel-Hamas war.
The proposal, which passed 320-91 with some bipartisan support, would codify the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism in Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a federal anti-discrimination law that bars discrimination based on shared ancestry, ethnic characteristics or national origin. It now goes to the Senate where its fate is uncertain.
Action on the bill was just the latest reverberation in Congress from the protest movement that has swept university campuses. Republicans in Congress have denounced the protests and demanded action to stop them, thrusting university officials into the center of the charged political debate over Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza. More than 33,000 Palestinians have been killed since the war was launched in October, after Hamas staged a deadly terrorist attack against Israeli civilians.
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.
“Speech that is critical of Israel alone does not constitute unlawful discrimination,” Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said during a hearing Tuesday. “By encompassing purely political speech about Israel into Title VI’s ambit, the bill sweeps too broadly.”
Advocates of the proposal say it would provide a much-needed, consistent framework for the Department of Education to police and investigate the rising cases of discrimination and harassment targeted toward Jewish students.
“It is long past time that Congress act to protect Jewish Americans from the scourge of antisemitism on campuses around the country,” Rep. Russell Fry, R-S.C., said Tuesday.
The expanded definition of antisemitism was first adopted in 2016 by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, an intergovernmental group that includes the United States and European Union states, and has been embraced by the State Department under the past three presidential administrations, including Joe Biden’s
Previous bipartisan efforts to codify it into law have failed. But the Oct. 7 terrorist attack by Hamas militants in Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza have reignited efforts to target incidents of antisemitism on college campuses.
Separately, Speaker Mike Johnson announced Tuesday that several House committees will be tasked with a wide probe that ultimately threatens to withhold federal research grants and other government support for universities, placing another pressure point on campus administrators who are struggling to manage pro-Palestinian encampments, allegations of discrimination against Jewish students and questions of how they are integrating free speech and campus safety.
The House investigation follows several high-profile hearings that helped precipitate the resignations of presidents at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. And House Republicans promised more scrutiny, saying they were calling on the administrators of Yale, UCLA and the University of Michigan to testify next month.
The House Oversight Committee took it one step further Wednesday, sending a small delegation of Republican members to an encampment at nearby George Washington University in the District of Columbia. GOP lawmakers spent the short visit criticizing the protests and Mayor Muriel Bowser’s refusal to send in the Metropolitan Police Department to disperse the demonstrators.
Bowser on Monday confirmed that the city and the district’s police department had declined the university’s request to intervene. “We did not have any violence to interrupt on the GW campus,” Bowser said, adding that police chief Pamela Smith made the ultimate decision. “This is Washington, D.C., and we are, by design, a place where people come to address the government and their grievances with the government.”
It all comes at a time when college campuses and the federal government are struggling to define exactly where political speech crosses into antisemitism. Dozens of U.S. universities and schools face civil rights investigations by the Education Department over allegations of antisemitism and Islamophobia.
Among the questions campus leaders have struggled to answer is whether phrases like “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” should be considered under the definition of antisemitism.
The proposed definition faced strong opposition from several Democratic lawmakers, Jewish organizations as well as free speech advocates.
In a letter sent to lawmakers Friday, the American Civil Liberties Union urged members to vote against the legislation, saying federal law already prohibits antisemitic discrimination and harassment.
“H.R. 6090 is therefore not needed to protect against antisemitic discrimination; instead, it would likely chill free speech of students on college campuses by incorrectly equating criticism of the Israeli government with antisemitism,” the letter stated.
Jeremy Ben-Ami, president of the centrist pro-Israel group J Street, said his organization opposes the bipartisan proposal because he sees it as an “unserious” effort led by Republicans “to continually force votes that divide the Democratic caucus on an issue that shouldn’t be turned into a political football.”
Seriously, if anyone needed any proof that the USA is bought and is ruled by Jews, this is it. A “superpower” is bringing legislation to ban the criticism of a small foreign state at the other side of the planet…. This can only be explained in one way, the Jews own the USA, it is property to them. And this has wild ramifications for the whole world, not just americans. I don’t care about americans, they can rot in Hell for all i care, after all, they allowed this themselves. But they are still a significant military and nuclear power and they are acting like Israel’s dog and drag us into Armageddon. We need to destroy the USA, it is the only way. The rest of the world will never be safe as long as USA exists. I have no trust in americans to throw the jews out. They don’t care as long as they have their big trucks/suvs and their stuff from amazon, paid by credit cards and debt….
To paraphrase Voltaire, “To discover who rules over you, simply found out who it is now illegal for you to criticise.”
Xth generation psychological warfare .. like announcing Transday on Easter .. It creates headlines .. since military operations are covert and the msmedia are under wartimecode 47 ..
Quite obviously what passes for ahem..law… isn’t fit for purpose..of course you don’t really have that anyway, what you have is a semitic asiatic kritarchy.. they always bare the same complexion.. despotic, poxed…tyrannical, murderous..uncivilised…
One good thing about all of this though, even the the most sedant of imbeciles, can no longer deny the overarching ‘jewe’ influence on the West.. and can no longer excuse obvious ‘jewe’ perfidy, which deliciously turns the lefties into allies…and exposese the sordid underbelly of Zion and it’s mythological babble…
Which I’m sure you will agree, is the beginnings of removing it.. like the cancer it is…
Quite obviously what passes for ahem..law… isn’t fit for purpose..of course you don’t really have that anyway, what you have is a semitic asiatic kritarchy.. they always bare the same complexion.. despotic, poxed…tyrannical, murderous..uncivilised…
One good thing about all of this though, even the the most sedant of imbeciles, can no longer deny the overarching ‘jewe’ influence on the West.. and can no longer excuse obvious ‘jewe’ perfidy, which deliciously turns the lefties into allies…and exposes the sordid underbelly of Zion and it’s mythological babble…
Which I’m sure you will agree, is the beginnings of removing it.. like the cancer it is…
Interesting how some bogus IDF-Hamas blackop ‘terror attack’ that didn’t even occur in America, but in Israel, is the cause celebre for criminalizing free speech & further eroding the civil liberties of Americans. And these Commie Republican-Democrat politicians are supposed to be your ‘representatives’ not Israels…oh yeah..that’s how its supposed to work…lol. Notice how all this anti-semitic legislation is always traced back to Oct 7–the opportune justification or sine qua non for all of this.
Problem: Oct 7
Reaction: Protests
Solutions: Anti-semitic laws
The “Jews control everything” types are missing the plot. Jews don’t have to create opposition to themselves, opposition to Jews is a natural phenomenon given Jewish awful behavior, it’s inevitable. However when it grows they expect to control and destroy it from within.
That’s when the ‘good Jew’ shows up to infiltrate. Jewish playbook never changes. “Hey, I’m pro-Palestine, I’m a good Jew. May I come in?” When the stupid goy invite the vampire inside his destiny is sealed.
The Jew is an organism and every Jew is a cell of this organism, they are trained to be part of this organism since birth. Some are useful idiots which provide cover for informers, spies, saboteurs. Sooner or later Jews assume command of the initially organic political movement, and them they lead it to the precipice.
It goes beyond criticism of Israel. According to this article on (would you believe) Gateway Pundit (which is as Zio-Shill as one can get!), the bill will also persecute Christians who bring up certain Bible scripture verses that “criticize Jews”, such as verses in the Gospels that truthfully claim the Jews (Pharisees) had Christ crucified (the Romans were just proxies…further, Pontious Pilate claimed Christ did nothing wrong!), and verses such as Christ saying (John 8:44) that the Pharisees “are of” their “father, the devil.” and Revelation 2:9 and 3:9 claiming “those who say they are Jews and are not, but are of the Synagogue of Satan”, and more.
In other words, this “law” says the WORD OF GOD and statements by Christ will be BANNED?!
Link: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/house-gop-passes-controversial-bill-labeling-certain-christian/
@cChesterton–hopefully (as with many young American Christians today), this apostacy backed by Christian Zionism will bring about the END of Christian Zionism! These days, most Christian Zionists are either Boomers or GenX. Boomers are dying off, and maybe GenX will finally wake up to the garbage spewed by (largely) supporters of Palestinian genocide (including Palestinian Christians!), the “Christian” Zionists. Christ said it: they know not what they do. Because Christian Zionists are brainwashed into (2 Thessalonians Chapter 2) “strong delusion, that they believe a lie.”
“After WWII, many Americans wondered “How could such an advanced country like Germany, with so many patents and advanced technology be taken over by the Nazis?” That of course was not the correct question. The correct question was “How could an advanced country like Germany be taken over by the Jews?” The answer is the timeless combination of war and usury that worked nearly everywhere it was tried, as well as a way of thinking that was completely foreign to the Germans. The Nazis were a response to the Jewish takeover of Germany. A similar process is occurring in the United States today as well, and a similar outcome should be expected.” – Henry Makow Ph.D.
chesterton
the ‘lefties’ are Commies..led by ‘anti-Zionist’ Jews.. Non-Zionist Jews are ‘great people’. The main thing or impulse that unites these gentile commies & Jews is that they both want the white man gone. So they will never ally themselves with white fascist/nationalist types.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
I think university administrators in the US are using lawfare to end the student anti-genocide protests. First tell the protesting students they’re barred from university property; then the police move in to arrest them (and before too long that will include all of them); then release them on a bail condition they do not return to campus from where they’re banned or face charges for breach of bail and probably trespass or ‘nuisance’.
That ol’ gal Aunty SemiJism sure seems to be doing the “milk rounds” these days! 😅
Worth noting in the actual text of the bill:
“Section 6: 3b:
Nothing in this Act shall be construed to diminish or infringe upon any right protected under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.”
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@ Crowley..
Yes..I know all that Mr Crowley..but I try to engage the subject matter from a variety of perspectives, that way..1. I keep myself flexible, interested and ready my thrust for the opposing parry..and 2. Dont’t have to endlessly repeat myself like you do… under various fictitious pseudonyms…
Frater Nico…
So never forget..Love is the Law… A∴A∴ and all that…and clean your teeth regularly..and thoroughly..
JEWS ARE JESUS DENIERS
the huge kickup about white actors blacking up to play the pars of black people
is ridiculous, what about all the hollywood jews who plays the parts of white people ?
@TEMPLAR GR
USA is not bought . USA is fucked by jew
since atleast 100 years and most americans
still dont know or ignore . same here in europa .
but you americans have guns guns guns . that
is the difference .
@NBTT
since the white goyim [not the blacks] by their clean
character are unable to form a tricky insidious mafia
like the jews are it is strictly recomended that any
white patriotic group abstains to absorbe so called
“good” jews . there should always strict separation
and SURELY NO INTERMARRIAGE !
them are not to trust ! NEVER !
@TEMPLAR GR
YES USA must be destroyed, the whole system !
from outside [russia or islam power] or from
inside by race/civil war/crime/drugs or anything
else . insofar I am even in solidarity with Soros
and Pfitzer jews [A Bourla, B Gates,Fauci]
The 320 criminal degenerates who voted for this treasonous slop deserve to be dragged down the steps of the Crapitol face-down by their ankles, stripped naked, vigorously flogged and rolled in pig shit and salt in front of the building, then hanged from streetlight posts and highway overpasses.
The “International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance” is behind this attempted anal rape of the cuntry and the citizen-slaves, huh? I’m sure any jackal member of the alliance would be up for a debate about the veracity of that alleged historical event…of course, they’d actually avoid that like the plague, as truth and facts make such creatures exceedingly nervous or they wouldn’t be working so hard all the time to bury open discourse.
somethinghappeninghere,
The Jews have not only stolen the identity of the Israelites (as they are Japethites and Hamites – Ashkenazi and Canaanite Jews) but they now use our book (that has nothing to do with them, regardless of the multitude of morons on here who think Jews were Israelites and Hebrews, incapable of critical thinking) against us.
Who’s to blame? Well, obviously so called Christians in the west, that is those who follow the heretic Schofield and his rewriting of the bible, along with the King James VI, which although easier to read is full of of, so many, mistakes, because they are incapable of understanding the truth, having turned Christianity into a hippie cult instead of the teachings of Jah, to keep his peoples safe.
The Shemites, the Japethites and the Hamites, the three patriarchs, were the last three remaining survivors of mankind (and humankind) after the flood. All went their own way to become the many peoples of this earth, bar the Negro and Mongoloid peoples, as they clearly came from somewhere else. Cranial shape denotes this. Both are HU-mankind and many are mixed with mankind.
And finally, John 8:44 is a good passage that I use all the time because, again, it’s been changed. It originally stated – “those who say they are JUDAHITES and are not, but of the synagogue of Satan”. The Jews have successfully managed to merge the Judahites into the Jewish ideology (which is nothing more than Babylonian deity worship, being the Cainites that they are, who of course is the son of Satan). And this is where people fail to see the reality. Jews have nothing to do with the bible. They are not Israelites. They are therefore not Hebrews (of Eber) and certainly not Shemites (even though they attack those who criticise them as anti Semites).
Once people understand the truth, that the Jews are those Jah commanded the Isralites to destroy in Deuteronomy 20:16-18, then they’re toast. The Jews are the spawn of Satan and they know this, but their deception of being Israelites and Chosen people, protects them from extinction. Europeans KNEW who they were in the past and hence why Jews were constantly kicked out of the lands, as no matter where they went, the devil always came out, revealing itself to the kind hearted Christian Isralite Hebrew descendant, European peoples. And they also exposed themselves to the Japethites and Hamites as well, who did the very same things to them as well as the Europeans, evicting them from their lands.
The Jews are the masters of lies and deception. Their time is almost at an end and they’re doing their best to try to stop the inevitable. Too many lies means too many slip ups and eventually, even the dumbest moron wakes up and sees who they are – like quite a few on this very forum.
Crowley–you keep giving us that paradox: what if my will is to ignore all laws?