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• FMEP Legislative Round-Up January 10, 2025

  1. Bills, Resolutions 2. Letters 3. Hearings 4. Selected Members on the Record 5. Selected Media & Press releases/Statements Of note: Jezebel 1/8/25: The 119th…

• FMEP Legislative Round-Up January 3, 2025

  1. Bills, Resolutions 2. Letters 3. Hearings 4. Selected Members on the Record 5. Selected Media & Press releases/Statements New episodes of FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts…

• FMEP Legislative Round-Up December 20, 2024

  1. Bills, Resolutions 2. Letters 3. House GOP Goes All-In on Targeting Israel Protest/Speech on Campus 4. Selected Members on the Record 5. Selected Media…

• FMEP Legislative Round-Up December 13, 2024

  1. Bills, Resolutions 2. Letters 3. Hearings 4. Selected Members on the Record 5. Selected Media & Press releases/Statements New: New episode of FMEP’s Occupied…

• FMEP Legislative Round-Up December 6, 2024

  1. Bills, Resolutions 2. Letters 3. Hearings 4. Selected Members on the Record 5. Selected Media & Press releases/Statements New: 11/27/24: New episode of the…

• Free speech crises loom with crackdown on Israel criticism (Responsible Statecraft)

  “‘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.’”

• FMEP Legislative Round-Up November 22, 2024

  1. Bills, Resolutions 2. Letters 3. Hearings 4. Selected Members on the Record 5. Selected Media & Press releases/Statements New: FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts podcast 11/21/24:…

• FMEP Legislative Round-Up November 15, 2024

  1. Bills, Resolutions 2. Letters 3. Hearings 4. Selected Members on the Record 5. Selected Media & Press releases/Statements New: 11/13/24: Trump’s unfinished business for…

• The Civil Rights Law Shutting Down Pro-Palestine Speech (Jewish Currents)

  “The ADL and allied groups’ push to use Title VI to target anti-Zionist speech has ample support in Congress, where members have advanced a range of measures to supercharge the statute’s repressive utility. One such bill, introduced in April in response to pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia, would allow the DOE to install an antisemitism monitor at any college or university receiving federal funding. The monitor would publish public reports detailing the progress universities have made in combating alleged antisemitism, and would provide an annual report to Congress recommending policies and sanctions the DOE and Congress should pursue in response to what they call antisemitism. Another bill, introduced in July, would impose increased fines on, and potentially revoke the tax-exempt status of, universities found to be in violation of Title VI. While neither of these bills has received a vote so far, a third measure has advanced farther: the Antisemitism Awareness Act, which mandates that the DOE, while investigating Title VI complaints, consider the IHRA definition when determining whether a school presents a hostile environment for Jewish students. The bill was passed by the House of Representatives in May; while the Senate has yet to take up the bill, the office of Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he planned to bring it up for a vote before the end of the year. ‘These members of Congress are looking at the situation and saying that universities clearly have too much wiggle room on how they deal with protesters and what they do and don’t consider antisemitism,’ said Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation of Middle East Peace. ‘The legislation is intended to remove that wiggle room.’”

• FMEP Legislative Round-Up November 1, 2024

  1. Bills, Resolutions 2. Letters 3. Hearings 4. Israel/Palestine in 2024 Elex/Politics 5. Selected Media & Press releases/Statements New :  11/1/24: WEBINAR co-convened by FMEP…