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Source: https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/12/02/anti-semitism-awareness-bill-passes-senate
Anti-Semitism Awareness Bill Passes Senate
(Inside Higher Ed) Colleen Flaherty - The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, which seeks to adopt the U.S. State Department's definition of anti-Semitism so that the Education Department may consider it in investigating reports of religiously motivated campus crimes. The bill was proposed by Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Tim Scott (R-SC). The bill is supported by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Federations of North America and the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Among the examples of anti-Semitism listed by Casey include demonizing Israel and judging it by a double standard that one would not apply to any other democratic nation.