House approves bill to define anti-Semitism, 320-91
0 DEM no
21 Republican Party no
Protecting Israel from criticism is more important than freedom of speech.
The following examples of anti-Semitism will be applied, which can include public life, the media, schools, the workplace and in the religious sphere, taking into account the general context, to name a few:
Advocacy to help or justify the killing or harming of Jews in the name of an extremist ideology or an extremist view of religion.
✅️ Making false, inhuman, demonizing or stereotypical claims
About the Jews as such or the power of the Jews as a group - such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about
The global Jewish conspiracy or Jews who control the media, economy, government, or other societal institutions.
✅️ Accusing Jews as a people of responsibility for real or imagined offenses committed by one Jewish person or group, or even for actions committed by non-Jews
✅️ Denial of the fact, scope, mechanisms (such as gas chambers)or intent of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of National Socialist Germany, its supporters and accomplices during World War II (the Holocaust)
Accusing Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.
✅️ Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews around the world, than to the interests of their states.
✅️ Depriving the Jewish people of their right to self-determination, for example, by claiming that the existence of the state of Israel is
A racist endeavor.
✅️ Applying double standards by demanding behavior that is not expected or required of any other democratic country.
✅️ The use of symbols and images associated with classical anti-Semitism (for example, claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to describe Israel or Israelis.
✅️Draw comparisons between contemporary Israeli politics and the policy of the Nazis.
✅️ Holding Jews collectively responsible for the actions of the state of Israel.
✅️ Anti-Semitic acts are criminal when they are defined by law (for example, denial
The Holocaust or the distribution of anti-Semitic material in some countries
