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This bill — the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act of 2019 — would aim to combat anti-Semitism taking place on college campuses. It would use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, which includes the demonization and delegitimization of Israel, and mentions that subjecting Israel to a double standard is an example of anti-Semitism. It’d direct the Department of Education (DOE) to use this definition of anti-Semitism when it’s reviewing whether there’s a violation of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act on campus.

Among the actions that this bill would consider anti-Semitic are:

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.
Judging Israel by a double standard that one would not apply to any other democratic nation.

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