Tag: Legislation
House introduces bipartisan resolution to mark AMIA bombing, seek justice
A bipartisan resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives was introduced Thursday to condemn the 1994 attackon the Mutual Israelite Association of Argentina, or AMIA, community center in Buenos Aires 25 years ago, in addition to calling...
In wake of Poway, bipartisan legislation introduced to secure religious institutions
Bipartisan legislation was introduced in Congress on Friday to provide funding to religious institutions, including synagogues, to protect attendees from potential attacks.
Introduced by U.S. Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Gary Peters (D-Mich.), the Protecting...
Anti-Semitism Awareness Act reintroduced by Senate reps
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) reintroduced the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act this week, which would require the Department of Education to adopt the State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism in evaluating incidents on college...
House passes resolution condemning anti-Semitism, Islamophobia amid Omar’s latest anti-Semitic remarks
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution on Thursday afternoon condemning anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
The final tally was 407-23.
“Whereas whether from the political right, center or left, bigotry, discrimination, oppression, racism and imputations of dual loyalty...
Democrats divided ahead of expected House resolution condemning anti-Semitism
Ahead of an expected vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday afternoon on a resolution condemning anti-Semitism in the aftermath of the latest remarks by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Democrats are divided over a...
On fourth try, Senate clears major hurdle to vote on pro-Israel, anti-BDS bill
The fourth time was the charm as the U.S. Senate finally cleared a major procedural hurdle on Monday evening to vote on a bill on Republican-introduced legislation that, if enacted, would impose fresh sanctions on Syria,...