A bill introduced in the House by Reps. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) and Mike Lawler (R-NY) would create “antisemitism monitors” at colleges funded by the US federal government, a reaction to widespread pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have falsely been labeled antisemitic.
The protests against the US-backed Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza have led some members of Congress, including House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), to call for President Biden to send in the National Guard, and the prime minister of Israel has also called for a crackdown. The bill from Torres and Mawler takes a different approach to combat the protests.
According to a press release from Torres and Lawler, the legislation, known as the College Oversight and Legal Updates Mandating Bias Investigations and Accountability (COLUMBIA) Act, would “empower the federal Department of Education to impose a third-party antisemitism monitor on any college or university receiving federal funding.”
“The monitor would be appointed by the Secretary of Education, the terms and conditions of the monitorship would be set by the Secretary, and the expenses of the monitorship would be paid by the particular college or university that has been selected for monitorship,” the press release said. “Failure to comply with the monitorship would result in the loss of federal funds.”
The demonstrations are being labeled antisemitic by Israeli supporters in the US despite the fact that many Jewish students are participating in the demonstrations, including in the encampment at Columbia University in New York City. Many of the protests across the country are demanding their universities divest from Israel or companies profiting from Israel’s genocidal war.
On its face this is viewpoint discrimination and a 1st amendment violation. There is no hate speech exception to 1A. Antisemitism is hate speech but in America it is still protected by 1A ( we are not Germany)
I’m pretty sure that’s not going to be true for long. And before the inevitable court cases wind their way to the Supreme Court – and who knows how they’ll rule – the damage will be done.
It’s just posturing for their perceived election benefit (and Aipac $$$) … there is no way this becomes enforced law. If it ever got the SC, it would be a 9-0.
Yep. All politics is strategy sessions to determine the word salad for the day. I am not sure about the SC, though.
I don’t think we can trust the courts when it is political, not the nation’s SC nor international courts like the ICJ and not ICC.
The USA DEMOLISHED ALL CREDIBILITY if they ever had any. National elections have the same problem, the CIA is well trained to get governments the USA wants.
Wouldn’t count on that. The bill does not explicitly regulate speech – it merely appoints a position at universities with government subsidies. I can see that being a much harder case to argue that it explicitly violates the 1st Amendment. But the obvious intent is to “chill”, as they say, free speech. So I would expect a split decision which might or might not go the “right” way.
You can’t get much more explicit than “lose federal funding” …
I wish I shared your faith in the SC.
There were no signs of hate speech of any students, but from the government officials, they made up lies and provoked violence, not the students. Even MSM had no evidence of students doing that, but lots of government authorities trying to provoke it.
Have you been to any of these colleges recently?Have you interviewed any victims?
Have you? Have you seen the videos in the News and have you seen violent students or anti-Semitic signs? I have not, let me know what evidence you have. Lots of videos of uncalled for violence of law officers.
Wearing a skull cap is an expression of religion,and being abused in any form for said action is discrimination.
Torrres and Lawler are fiends and enablers of the genocide in Gaza. A massive state by state pushback against all of these Israeli first politicians must happen…these people must be removed from power and deported if necessary…
Why not just have Bibi place a desk next to Biden as co-president of U.S?
Desk or toilet?
There is a blue phone on Biden’s desk. When it rings……..
Young students gathered together is where war resistors are to be found in times like these.
The way to stop war resistors on campus is to shut down colleges until the genocide is finished.
Or, Kent State II. Speaker Johnson, good Christian that he is, has advocate such a thing. Bringing the National Guard in. NO need for that. In one of the videos of students being arrested in Texas, the camera flashed by a police officer, riot gear and all, holding a SEMI AUTOMATIC WEAPON! I had to see it several times. Unfortunately I cannot find it. From what I have read, the police used pepper spray and flash bangs. Flash bangs can injure or kill.
Leave it to Tx. the Police came on horseback and in riot gear without any indication of violence by the demonstrators. Even MSM could not hide that fact. Only law enforcement people used violence against peaceful demonstrators.
There is class warfare between rich brat kids and blue collar cops.
The same Texas police who stood in a hallway for an hour when a psycho was murdering kids eagerly take on unarmed college students. Maybe they got trained by the IDF; they’re only able to “fight” people who don’t shoot back
Ah, the Thought Police. How…free we are.
We are all Winston now…………………
Insane.
Let’s START WITH GENOCIDE MONITORS to keep up with the U.S. Israeli slaughter of Palestine families and their children…….!!!!!!!!!!!! r
We need to keep track of how many innocent women & Children they genocid and who were involved, & what they did to facilitate this Genocide, slaughte, & MAYHEM…..!!!!!!!!!
From Hitler Youth to Biden/Netanyahu Youth. Isn’t it nice?/s
Compared to the Netanyahu Youth the Hitler Youth were Boy Scouts on steroids.
Only there are no Biden/Netanyahu youth.
You could count the IDF as Netanyahu’s Youth, they learned how to hate Palestinians in Kindergarten and at home.
Were the Vietnam Era GI’s Hitler youth? They were conscripts abused by the hippies as well as their own government. IDF forces repelled terrorist Hamas and are now trying to free the hostages. Just and proud.
What about the tortured Palestinian prisoners, including women and children? What about the robbing and killing of Palestinians on the WB by the Israelis supported by the IDF?
What about the gang rapes perpetrated by Hamas,the body parts cut off,the families butchered by Hamas.
And what about the beheaded babies? LOL! I don’t trust Zionist claims of rape and torture any more. We are tired of unfounded claims of victim hood. On the other hand, I can see the war crimes committed by the IDF and the settlers recorded in real time videos. After the liberation of Palestine an independent tribunal could investigate claims of war crimes by the Zionists and the resistance. But the Zionists would never agree to that. Zionists should be given a choice between leaving Palestine or standing trial for their crimes against the Palestinian people.
Were the Vietnam Era GI’s Hitler youth? They were conscripts abused by the hippies as well as their own government. IDF forces repelled terrorist Hamas and are now trying to free the hostages. Just and proud.
Yeah, the median age of their supporters is about 69
There are reports that Hamas officials are losing track of casualty numbers. That is not surprising.
Release the hostages and end the war.
What a stupid thing to say. What about a cease fire agreement? Too much to ask from the Israelis, they want it all for nothing. They are blood suckers.
A cease fire only allows Hamas to rearm and the torture andof hostages to proceed.
Return the hostages-end the Gaza war.
Free the Palestinians held captive by israel without charges.
Release the hostages,and end this war. simple.
A tad third reich.
Surprise surprise, a federal government bought and paid for by billionaire supporters of a foreign country serves the whims of that foreign country.
Criticism of Israel can be just or unjust.When a professor asks students to identify themselves by ethnicity or religion,orders all Jewish students to go stand in a corner to face the wall,and lectures them about the millions of dead from colonialism-this is antisemitism. College administrators who act with integrity and decency need not fear. PC admininstrations should have all government grants and student loans rescinded.
What you are describing only happened in your imagination.
It happens,whether you like it or not.
It’s not the Judaism, it’s the Zionism!
the Zionist assault on fee speech will backfire badly.
Think these campus demonstrations are antisemitic? You ain’t seen nothing yet!
The time is approaching when Zionists will be afraid to voice their allegiances to Israel, a foreign country, and rightly so.
Zionists get people fired for their political views all the time. Payback’s gonna be a bitch.
Zionists should be declared persona non grata in the US.
And you,no doubt,will be the one to decide who is a Zionist.
Anyone supporting Israel’s war crimes is also a criminal.
That means you, NAZI.
Zionists are enemies of freedom & democracy in America!
Globalists,leftists and Antifa are the enemies of democracy.
The violence against protesters is at the behest of Israel.
Antifa is s joke compared to that.
Globalists, leftists and Antifa aren’t leading an assault on the Constitutional rights of Americans.
That would be Zionists and Israel.
Deport the Zionists!!
antifa destroyed Portland
LOL. You’re such a lying right wing extremist.
As far as I can tell, Portland is still there and rents are still goin up.
A violent mob of Zionists attacked the UCLA encampment with fireworks, chemical weapons and poles.
They show the true nature of the Zionist menace. Like Israel, they claim to be victims when in fact they are nasty, brutish thugs.
If I had been at that encampment , there would have been some dead Zionists, who I would have killed in self-defense.
Are you proud of your Zionist thugs at UCLA?
Zionists mobs marauding on campus is not a well thought out tactic.
What a gift!
You rightists, Trumpists and insurrectionists will never understand, and that’s s good thing.
Them to
“When a professor asks students to identify themselves by ethnicity or religion,orders all Jewish students to go stand in a corner to face the wall,and lectures them about the millions of dead from colonialism-this is antisemitism.”
I hadn’t heard about that. Any link?
Once again making up stuff as you go to silence criticism of Israel. You mean that any administration critical of Israel should have all government grants and students loans rescinded. You really don’t care about integrity and decency . Anyone with integrity and decency would not stay silent about on the going genocide of Palestinians or try to prevent others from voicing their oppositions. By the way , there many Jewish students who protesting the ongoing genocide . Throwing about the accusations of antisemitism do not pass muster. Many who are using the accusation of antisemitism nowadays are totally disingenuous and hypocrites.
Free the hostages and end the war.
When college administrators bring in riot police to arrest Jewish students peacefully protesting genocide because of “antisemitism,” me thinks it be a pretext.
We’re Jewish students at Columbia arrested for protesting Israel’s war
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/4626720-were-jewish-students-at-columbia-arrested-for-protesting-israels-war/
They are called self-hating Jews by the Zionists.
Wonder why Jake is so silent on the subject ?
“Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech”
These cretins heard of that? This is completely unconstitutional on its face.
Silly contributor, the Constitution is dead in America. The Uni-party has stolen American Constitutional Democracy.
Reports of the constitution’s death are highly exaggerated … 🙂
The Uni-party & the Zionists.
Ever hear of the right to privacy? Gone.
You need to read the fine print. Every Constitutional Right has an Israel exception. According to Israel supporters.
The Czarist Duma speaks.
In the ’50’s they ‘cleansed’ the Universities of the previous bogey-man Karl Marx on behalf of ‘right-thinking,’ i.e., Capitalism. It appears the same playbook is to be employed for Neoconservatism, aka ZioNazism with Mike Johnson, Ritchie Torres, Mike Lawler, … nso on vying for the mantel of J. Edgar Hoover.
Those hypocrites ever always pointing fingers at other countries for what they want to do here. The only thing that republicans and democrats share in common is their loyalty and worship of Israel. They will pass laws to cover and ignores Israel crimes that they would not do for their own countries.
I assume they mean anti-ashkenazism since the Palestinians make up the majority of Semites in occupied Palestine.
Palestine is now free.
Any Jew born in Palestine is a Palestinian.
An Emory University economics professor has been charged with battery after it appeared she was forcefully arrested during a pro-Palestinian protest on campus.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/professor-emory-university-arrest-protest-b2536574.html?callback=in&code=ZDDHOGYXMMQTOGMXNS0ZZDLJLWJIMJITYJY4MGYXMTI0MTLL&state=94ba4585dbe7465e905e8cb3e13e51c3
Welcome to the United Shithole of America.
United States of Atrocities, or, United States of Amnesia, or, the Settler Colonial States of America.
Meanwhile,a recent pole shows that 80%of American support Israel. HAHAHA
There are differences in the protests of today, protesting a genocide, and protesting another genocide. The protests of the 60’s was against the war in Vietnam, during which nearly 3.8 million Vietnamese, Laos people, and Cambodians were killed by U.S. bombs, launched by U.S. B-52’s. It was more raucous. The other difference was the bipartisan support from congressmen/women. Today. there is a bipartisan effort in support of Israeli inflicting genocide on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, it would appear that they are so crazy for the Zionists (AIPAC) in Israel that they condone the head crunching by police in riot gear. GENOCIDE MONITORS??!! That takes us back to the heady days of Germany during the 1930’s, where children did indeed monitor their classmates, and, their parents. Hitler Youth.
Orwell was right. So right. Today the call by those protesting is “we all are Palestinians”, correctly so. I would add, “we are all Winston”. We may as well gather and chant, I LOVE BIG BROTHER!, over and over, in frenzied zeal. What the hell has happened? Well, I know what may have happened, and it predates the Zionist fervor in Israel. I have read a book by Upton Sinclair, written in 1923. It is called The Goose Step; A Study of American Education. It is an investigation into the consequences of plutocratic capitalist control of American colleges and universities. It is tragic. Anyone arguing it is not so, is really not paying attention.
“3.8 million Vietnamese, Laos people, and Cambodians were killed by U.S. bombs, launched by U.S. B-52’s” You got a little carried away. You statement would mean that 100% of people who died in the war were killed by B-52s.
Would these “antisemitism monitors” be under the authority of the Federal “Ministry of Truth”?
“A Republic. If you can keep it.” —-Prophetic words of Benjamin Franklin.
And then there was that great one-liner: To avoid foreign entanglements…
Great, the US traded in rule by Britain only to now be ruled by Israel.
Some Us representatives are concerned about hatred of Jews-they are controlled by Israel?
I have yet to see an anti-Semitic sign or violence on the side of the demonstrating students.
The violence main stream media showed on TV was VIOLENT authorities and government officials stirring up violence against the students.
The authorities are instigating violence deliberately.
When one thinks the authorities have reached rock bottom of vile they come up with more evil ideas to provoke more violence. Talking about vile people, that is what our officials are.
The same right wing bastards that hate DEI want special programs for their favorite minority.
And who is their favorite minority? Let us hear it.
The “Chosen People”, of course.
As the Polish saying from the Middle Ages goes, they “cry out in pain as they strike you.”
They immediately brought out “anti-Semitism” as soon as they started the mass slaughter. This is the usual tactic.
It reminds me of gangs of “beggars” from Romania, who after having harrassed the Romanians long enough have now spread out across Europe thanks to the EU. Aside from breaking into summer homes and stealing cars, they steal watches and wallets in crowds, and if the victim reacts they start shouting “help, he’s attacking me, police, police!”
This is meant to confuse bystanders, same as the “anti-Semitism” charge. So that people will think, no smoke without fire. They will think you must have done SOMETHING at least. European people can’t imagine that someone would act that brazenly, making a claim that is the opposite of reality. This is the Big Lie Technique, and it’s still just as efficient as a tool against gullible Westerners even today, as we have seen.
The groveling for AIPAC $$$$ makes me ill. Groveling for money from a foreign agent. Pretty f*cked……….
Israel Firster Mark Levin says “we own this country,” but pretends he’s speaking for “red-blooded Americans,” to adapt his language to his audience.
And of course – Hitler!
Terrorism!
Crystal Night!
(Interesting fact about that, it wasn’t ordered by Hitler. A Jewish man killed a German diplomat in France, and Joseph Goebbels then told SA members to smash the windows of Jewish-owned stores as a response. They were told to only throw a brick and then leave, to not get into arguments and to not bother foreign Jews. When Goering and Himmler learned about this they went to Hitler and demanded that Goebbels be fired and expelled from the party. Hitler called Goebbels to his office and shouted at him for an hour. He told him he was very close to firing him, and let him stay only because of his earlier competent work. I wonder how that fits into all the countless “it’s like Kristallnacht!” comparisons.)
Red blooded fifth columnist is more like it.
Self employment and organic gardens go a long way toward canceling dependence on black listers.
The American Uni-Party mandates an end to free speech. No matter what the topic free speech and questioning have been historically protected on university campuses.
Standby for thought control and propaganda to social engineer the masses even on university campuses.
American constitutional Democracy is done stick a fork in it. When foreign dictators tell Congress that questioning their actions is against their interests the Uni-party jumps.
From Zelensky to Netanyahu to Joey Biden’s sycophants American citizens can no longer question dubious events.
NEW YORK — Speaker Mike Johnson said he will call Joe Biden and demand the president send the National Guard to Columbia University
He is following the orders he got from Tel Aviv. that is his job, the USA is not even a sovereign nation anymore, Tel Aviv and AIPAC set the tone. Dual American/Israeli citizens, former IDF members, are in charge, now it is Israel first, make Israel greater from the river to the shining sea, the new mantra.
The Education Secretary would appoint the campus monitor and set the terms and conditions for the oversight…
Aside from the ridiculousness of this one aspect, it’s also a first step into monitoring college campuses for any dissent. Note the monitor would be paid by funds from the university but actually work for the federal government which can expand on the position with relative ease.
Federal monitors have been appointed many times to remedy job discrimination against other minorities.Since some college Presidents have been lax in their obligations towards Jewish students,monitors may be in order. rich colleges should have their endowments drained to pay for these monitors.
Any genocide monitors? Netanyahu could end up being the main cause for the rise of anti-semitism.
There is definitely a rise in anti-Zionism around the world. Netanyahu insists on speaking for all Jewish people world wide. No, his speeches lately seem to speak for the whole world. He is inverting reality — defending “our values”! He believes he is acting on behalf of US president, urging American local and state authorities to crack down on students protesting genocide!
Zionists are to blame for these attacks.
Payback will be a bitch!
I hope you are right, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.