Congress: 119 · Status: active · Israel/Palestine classification: pro-Israel
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Sponsor: Lawler, Michael (R-New York)
Colleges and universities that authorize, facilitate, fund, or support events promoting antisemitism on campus would lose eligibility for federal student loans and grants. The bill defines antisemitism using the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition adopted in 2016, including its contemporary examples.
This ties federal student aid eligibility to adoption of the IHRA definition, which classifies several forms of Israel criticism—including statements that Israel is "a racist endeavor," comparisons of Israeli policy to Nazi actions, and claims that Israel is held to unfair standards—as antisemitic. The mechanism effectively makes universities' access to Title IV funding conditional on restricting speech that the IHRA examples treat as antisemitism, raising First Amendment and academic freedom questions while potentially suppressing pro-Palestinian discourse on campuses.