Requires Education Dept. to consider a set definition of antisemitism in bias cases

§1What it does

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This bill would make it a requirement under federal law that the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights take into account the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's working definition of antisemitism when it reviews or investigates discrimination complaints.^2,3 The requirement applies to complaints, under the civil rights law covering programs and activities that receive federal funding, of discrimination based on race, color or national origin that involve a person's actual or perceived Jewish ancestry or ethnic characteristics.^2,3 Under the alliance's working definition, antisemitism is a particular perception of Jewish people that can show itself as hatred toward them.³ The bill's definition also takes in the alliance's list of contemporary examples of antisemitism, and the bill says it may not be read to diminish or infringe on rights protected by the First Amendment.²

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