'Blatant giveaway': Columnist says GOP's 'antisemitism' bill is a stalking horse

'Blatant giveaway': Columnist says GOP's 'antisemitism' bill is a stalking horse

House Republicans' "antisemitism" bill is a thinly-veiled effort to target left-wing organizations and criticism of Israel, global affairs journalist Emily Tamkin wrote in a column for MSNBC published on Wednesday evening — and a last-minute amendment they slipped in is a "blatant giveaway" of this fact. "That bill — the Antisemitism Awareness Act — would codify the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism as the…

A last-minute GOP amendment to an antisemitism bill is a blatant giveaway

The Senate HELP Committee took up a bill on antisemitism with a remarkable amendment from Sen. Bill Cassidy: protection for the right to say that Jews killed Jesus.

GOP alters antisemitism bill after Christian conservatives object – The Forward

https://forward.com/fast-forward/716347/antisemitism-bill-congress-jews-jesus/ «The added language, … proposed by the committee’s chair, Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, states that the legislation would not “diminish or infringe upon any right protected under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, including the free exercise of religion.”» Oh, ok, that’s… uh… good? We can still say the Jews killed Jesus? Yay? Pretty sure …