House passes bill limiting criticism of Israel

[Bismarck]

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinian-campus-protests-columbia-congress-df4ba95dae844b3a8559b4b3ad7e058a

Anti free speech nonsense. Glad to see the mask is finally off though.

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It's a fact that Netanyahu personally committed foreign interference for Trump in the 2016 election. But Democrats are too cowardly to stand up to real foreign interference in an election.

[Pyro]

Not sure if this holds up in the Senate. Even Nadler spoke out against it.

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

It doesn't do that. There is no enforcement mechanism in this bill.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

It doesn't do that. There is no enforcement mechanism in this bill.

The enforcement is that it becomes a part of civil rights law as applied to education. It's like how Title IX has sometimes been interpreted as declaring some expression as constituting sex discrimination.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Well, "the targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity" is antisemitic. The question is who gets to define "conceiv[ing of Israel] as a Jewish collectivity" and, for that matter, what counts as "targeting" it.

[Not Me, Us]

If Joe Biden signs this bill, he will have definitively lost my support.

[It’s so Joever]

It doesn't do that. There is no enforcement mechanism in this bill.

“A bill targeting valid free speech criticism of a foreign government is perfectly okay because it won’t be enforced.”

[Red Velvet]

Hahahaha the US constitution is clearly a joke by now, that old thing would even have better use as toilet paper.