Congress: 119 · Status: active · Israel/Palestine classification: pro-Israel
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Sponsor: Scott, Tim (R-South Carolina)
This bill amends federal higher education law to require colleges and universities to prohibit events they authorize or fund that promote antisemitism, using the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism—which includes contemporary examples treating certain Israel criticisms (such as calling Israel a racist state, comparing Israeli actions to Nazi policies, or applying double standards to Israel) as antisemitic. Institutions that violate this requirement would lose eligibility for federal student loans and grants under Title IV.
This ties federal student aid eligibility to adoption of the IHRA definition, effectively making that definition's speech classifications—which categorize several forms of Israel criticism as antisemitic—a condition of federal funding. The mechanism shifts from targeting hate speech alone to regulating political speech about Israel, and gives the IHRA definition legal enforcement weight it lacks in other contexts.