The House is scheduled to take up several bills, with the most notable being legislation to combat anti-Semitism on college and university campuses.
After passing a $95 billion package last week that included assistance to Israel, Ukraine, the Indo-Pacific, and a bill with measures such as banning TikTok, Congress returns next week from a week-long break.
The House is scheduled to take up seven bills, with the most notable being legislation to combat anti-Semitism on college and university campuses, The Epoch Times has learned.
The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, which has been introduced over the past few Congresses, would codify into law an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in 2019.
The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, introduced by Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), would have the U.S. government adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, which was in the executive order in applying the definition government-wide as the standard in dealing with anti-Semitic incidents, especially on college and university campuses. (The State Department adopted the definition on its own in 2016 under President Barack Obama.)
The IHRA working definition is “a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed