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“‘The goal here has long been to refocus the fight against antisemitism — and there is real antisemitism out there, which needs to be fought — to redefine it and make the central focus of this battle the shutting down of criticism of Israel and anti-Zionism,’ said Lara Friedman, the president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace. Friedman has spent years documenting legislative and lobbying efforts in the U.S. to restrict speech on Israel and pass the IHRA definition into federal law. Many states have already passed resolutions or adopted laws to embrace this framing, according to the Foundation’s data. ‘This has been fought since long before October 7, and it hasn’t passed in Congress because it is so obviously controversial,’ Friedman said. ‘You have major organizations that are not Israel-focused that have come out and said this would massively violate free speech.’ The antisemitism bill has been stalled in the Senate for months, so its definition of antisemitism is not yet the legal standard. But Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer recently proposed adding the legislation to the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). ‘Schumer wants to put it on the NDAA, basically saying, ‘I want this to pass, but I don’t want to force Democrats to vote on it because some will vote against it, and then they’ll call Democrats bad on antisemitism,” Friedman told RS. ‘And [Republican Speaker of the House Mike] Johnson is saying, ‘No, we have to have an up-or-down vote and force the Democrats all to vote on it.’”

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