Senate Dems Gut Antisemitism Act to Protect Hamas Supporters - Dr. Rich Swier

What’s Holding Up the Antisemitism Awareness Act?

1. Everyone Wants to Fight Antisemitism. But How? The Antisemitism Awareness Act should have been a no-brainer. After all, who in Congress doesn’t think there’s a need to be aware of antisemitism and to fight it in every possible way? Who doesn’t believe that a dramatic rise in antisemitic incidents in the past two years requires Congress to take action? Well, it isn’t that simple. The bill was first introduced in the previous Congress, where it…

Senate Dems Gut Antisemitism Act to Protect Hamas Supporters - Dr. Rich Swier

The Democrats have become systemically antisemitic. Democrats turned against the Antisemitism Awareness Act because their party had become increasingly antisemitic. But unwilling to directly vote against it, Sen. Bernie Sanders and other Dems and one Libertarian Republican, Sen. Rand Paul, joined forces to gut it by taking a bill meant to fight antisemitism and packing it with carve-outs for antisemites. Their antisemites. Notably campus Hamas s…