“This bill threatens to chill constitutionally protected speech,” Rep. Jerry Nadler said.
“Now more than ever, it’s critical the federal government’s definition of antisemitism is clear and uniform,” House Rules Chair Michael Burgess said after pointing to several protests on campus. | Francis Chung/POLITICOLawmakers on the House Rules Committee advanced a bipartisan bill Monday night attempting to codify a definition of antisemitism — after the panel’s Democrats bashed the measure at length.
“Now more than ever, it’s critical the federal government’s definition of antisemitism is clear and uniform,” House Rules Chair said after pointing to several protests on campus. “Congress must clearly define antisemitism, so universities are empowered to take appropriate and decisive steps to keep Jewish students safe and respond to exercises of speech so hostile and discriminatory that it is not covered by the protections enshrined in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Nadler, who was brought in to testify against the bill, had previously supported a similar one that would have codified multiple definitions of antisemitism. But after being pressed on that support, Nadler said: “I was mistaken to do so.”
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