Last night the US House of Representatives voted 320-91 to pass HR 6090, aka the “Antisemitism Awareness Act”. This bill, dropped in 2023, was rushed to the House floor in response to the anti-Israel protests happening on college campuses around the country.
The bill defines “antisemitism” as hate speech, but the actual definition of antisemitism is not in the text of the bill. Instead, you must go to https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism to find the definition. Below are some of the examples from the Holocaust Remembrance website that would be considered “hate speech” and “antisemitism” and would be prosecuted under HR 6090.
Charlie Kirk, Founder & CEO of TPUSA, had this to say on X :
This bill would make it illegal to compare Israeli policies to Nazi policies. It would make it illegal to describe Israel as racist. It would make it illegal to accuse an American citizen of being more loyal to Israel than to the United States. All of those behaviors might be stupid or repugnant, but they are indisputably protected by the First Amendment. Yet now, Congressional Republicans are rushing to gut the First Amendment in order to pass a Europe-style ban on supposed "hate speech." Rioters should be arrested. Unhinged Israel-hating students who take over buildings and refuse to leave should be expelled.
In the final section of the bill it states: “Nothing in this Act shall be construed to diminish or infringe upon any right protected under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.”
How does that work? How do you criminalize speech without infringing upon free speech protected by the First Amendment? The bill itself is a direct violation of the constitution.
While we wholeheartedly agree that antisemitic speech is abhorrent, we do not agree with laws that go against our First Amendment and criminalize free speech. This is a dangerous precedent to set and this bill must be stopped in the US Senate. You can track HR 6090 HERE
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Not good - no end to the virtue signaling.