Summer Concepcion is a politics reporter for NBC News.
The House is set to vote Wednesday on an antisemitism bill amid rising tensions at pro-Palestinian protests at colleges throughout the country. The bill, titled the Antisemitism Awareness Act, would mandate the Education Department adopt a broad definition of antisemitism used by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, an intergovernmental group, to enforce anti-discrimination laws. Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y.
“It’s an American issue that must be addressed in a bipartisan manner with the fierce urgency of now.” Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, told reporters on Tuesday that she won’t support the antisemitism bill and argued that Republicans are weaponizing antisemitism. She argued the bill led by Lawler is “doing real harm to the issue of antisemitism, which I feel very strongly about.
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