Barry Trachtenberg
By Barry Trachtenberg
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Opinion Congress’s Anti-Semitism Awareness Act Doesn’t Protect Jews – It Protects Israel
After trying and failing to pass the so-called “Anti-Semitism Awareness Act” in the last legislative session, supporters have once again submitted a bill that, if passed by Congress, will dramatically curb free speech and academic inquiry on college campuses. As I argued in my testimony to the House Judiciary Committee last year, backers of this…
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Opinion Expanding The Definition Of Anti-Semitism Hurts Jews: Testimony Before The House Judiciary Committee
The following is testimony presented before the House Judiciary Committee about proposed speech codes on November 7, 2017. It is increasingly common to hear reports that a “new anti-Semitism” threatens to endanger Jews on a scale not seen since the second World War and the Holocaust. Studies from several major Jewish organizations have sounded the…
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