On May 1, 2024 local time, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act with a vote of 320 in favor and 91 against. The next step will be sent to the Senate for review and implementation after President Biden signs it.
The specific contents of the bill are as follows:
In the name of radical ideology or extreme religious views, call for, assist or justify the killing or harm of Jews.
2. False, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotyping accusations about Jews themselves or the collective power of Jews—for example, particularly, but not limited to, regarding a world Jewry conspiracy or Jewish control of the media, economy, government, or other society The Myth of Institutions.
3. Accusing the Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoings committed by individual Jews or groups of Jews, or even by non-Jews.
4. Deny the fact, scope, mechanisms (such as gas chambers) or intent of the genocide against the Jews by National Socialist Germany and its supporters and accomplices during World War II (the Holocaust).
5. Accusing Jews as a people or Israel as a country of fabricating or exaggerating the Holocaust.
6. Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel or the so-called priorities of Jews around the world than to the interests of their own nation.
7. Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, for example, by claiming that the existence of the State of Israel is a racist act.
8. Adopting a double standard that requires behavior from Israel that is not expected or required of any other democracy.
9. Use symbols and images associated with classic anti-Semitism (e.g., claims that Jews killed Jesus or blood libel) to describe Israel or Israelis.