“Not In Our Name”: Tablet on the Antisemitism Awareness Act
Last week, the House of Representatives passed the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act of 2023 by an overwhelming margin. Some critics of the law are concerned about its definition of what constitutes antisemitism. My co-blogger David Bernstein thinks such criticisms are overblown, while Eugene Volokh fears the definition could chill legitimate (and non-antisemitic) criticism of Israel.
The editors of Tablet have a slightly different take. They are not concerned about the act’s definition of antisemitism, but are concerned about how this definition could be utilized within larger bureaucratic structures to suppress speech, both within universities and elsewhere. A taste:
Our objection, however—and it is an important one—is to the broader edifice of speech-policing of which this bill is a part. . . .
In a world in which people with minority opinions are increasingly subject to the full force of “the whole of government” or “the whole of society” being brought against them by a narrow group of powerful people, we have an existential interest as a people in supporting free speech and constitutional rights for others—on the historically sound principle that they wi
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