TradCatKnight: Antisemitism bill passes, let the censorship begin.....

Rhetorical and physical manifestations of anti-Semitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”
The bill was proposed by Senators Bob Casey, a Pennsylvania Democrat, and Tim Scott, a South Carolina Republican, to “ensure the Education Department has the necessary statutory tools at their disposal to investigate anti-Jewish incidents,” according to a news release. The senators say the act is not meant to infringe on any individual right protected under the First Amendment, but rather to address a recent uptick in hate crimes against Jewish students. The bill is supported by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Federations of North America and the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Casey listed the following examples of anti-Semitism in his explanation of the bill:

• Calling for, aiding or justifying the killing or harming of Jews
• Accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust
• Demonizing Israel by blaming it for all interreligious or political tensions
• Judge Israel by a double standard that one would not apply to any other democratic nation

The bill has attracted criticism from groups including Palestine Legaland Jewish Voice for Peace, who say the proposed definition of anti-Semitism wrongly conflates any criticism of Israel with anti-Jewish sentiments. The definition was rejected by the University of California earlier this year after similar complaints from free speech advocates, faculty and students. Kenneth Stern, who helped write the European Monitoring Center’s “working definition on anti-Semitism” on which the State Department definition is based, at that time argued that it would do “more harm than good” on college campuses.
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Anti-Semitism Awareness Bill Passes Senate by Colleen Flaherty:  A bill to force awareness and all that it might entail.  A FOOT IN THE DOOR TOWARD SUPPRESSION of free speech!  Enforcement is their goal:  ”Official Titles as Introduced:  A bill to provide for the consideration of a definition of anti-Semitism for the enforcement of Federal antidiscrimination laws concerning education programs or activities.”  How about infringement on the Bill of Rights, like, oh, say the first amendment:  ”Nothing in this Act, or an amendment made by this Act, shall be construed to diminish or infringe upon any right protected under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.”  (Diane)

My comments:  I said this would happen. First they start with resolutions.  http://www.voy.com/241653/40.html  After they got brain dead legislatures to accept that then they go to LAW which will have enforcement powers by the police or whatever means they have to enforce this nonsense. This is outright censorship especially the part about the holocaust “exaggeration” part. People like myself aren’t exaggerating the holocaust we only want free speech to talk about it. The Jews know they have a problem now defending some of the holocaust lies and nonsense so they now need foolish laws to protect their lies. We are now entering a new age in our country, hang on for the ride people, this is not going to be good… (Joe Rizoli)