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US politicans push for redefinition of anti-semitism to include Israel criticism
Protestors rally outside of the Indiana House chamber against House Bill 1002, January 18, 2024, in Indianapolis

POLITICIANS in more than half a dozen US states are pushing for laws to redefine anti-semitism as including criticism of Israel.

Supporters of the change, which Georgia has already voted in, are using the October 7 attack by Hamas to claim that some forms of criticism of Israel also amount to hatred of Jewish people.

But Kenneth Stern, the author of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition, said that using such language in law was problematic.

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