International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Definition, Anti-Semitism Awareness Act
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill requiring the Department of Education to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-semitism for Title VI enforcement. Critics argue the legislation empowers a foreign NGO to control American speech policy and could lead to federal investigations against students and public institutions. The bill incorporates a specific list of contemporary examples of anti-semitism into federal law.
international holocaust remembrance alliance· anti-semitism awareness act· department of education· title vi· civil rights act
00:00 The International Criminal Court in The Hague is contemplating issuing arrest warrants against senior Israeli government and military officials as war criminals. Israel expects the leaders of the free world to stand firmly against the ICC's outrageous assault on Israel's inherent right of self-defense. We expect them to use all the means at their disposal to stop this dangerous move. anti-Semitism in all of its forms without equivocation and without delay. This is our moment. The U.S. House passed a bill 32291, and a group of representatives say they want to protect their Jewish constituents. And the bill would essentially make it easier for the Department of Education to enforce anti-discrimination laws at public institutions. So this bill would require the Department of Education to use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition of anti-Semitism.
01:13 Many of the Republicans and Democrats said adding this type of regulation infringes on free speech. Criminal behavior is criminal behavior. Violating people's civil rights is violating people's civil rights. But when we want to insert the government into what you're thinking and what motivates you, you are empowering that which should never be empowered. the ability of the government to police thought. If implemented, the White House says they will, of the Department of Education. It puts a foreign, multinational NGO of the UN out of Israel and Europe in control of the policy and says not only their current definitions, but when they change it, that will be law. So it's saying it's like a blank check veto to control legislation. It's like a new Congress over speech.
02:03 and overall the educational systems of primary school and secondary. It's staggering. So I've read the bill twice. So they get into the act and why they're doing it, the definition of it in federal law, and then how they apply federal law is according to this new definition of anti-Semitism in Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. They go on here to give power to this group, a foreign group, to then define and direct federal agencies and the Department of Education, FBI against anyone that does what they say is anti-Semitic. And they give a big laundry list of the current definition. And they say they can also change it whenever they want. So it's an open check legislation just like the CIA got in 47 to do whatever they want. Said that this is one of the worst pieces of legislation we've ever seen.
