{"id":198716,"date":"2023-12-07T18:13:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T22:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=198716"},"modified":"2023-12-07T18:13:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T22:13:50","slug":"chilling-to-the-extreme-house-passes-bill-that-states-anti-zionism-is-antisemitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=198716","title":{"rendered":"<h1><b><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">CHILLING TO THE EXTREME!<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">House Passes Bill That States \u2018Anti-Zionism is Antisemitism\u2019<\/span><\/b><\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>House Passes Bill That States \u2018Anti-Zionism is Antisemitism\u2019<\/h1>\n<h3>Only 13 Democrats and one Republican voted &#8216;no&#8217; while 92 other Democrats voted &#8216;present&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p><!--more-->by Dave DeCamp<br \/>\nANTIWAR.com<\/p>\n<p>The House on Tuesday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/Votes\/2023697\">passed a resolution\u00a0<\/a>that says \u201canti-Zionism is antisemitism,\u201d the chamber\u2019s latest piece of legislation conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution, which is presented as a resolution condemning antisemitism, passed in a vote of 314-14-92. Only thirteen Democrats and one Republican voted against the legislation, while 92 Democrats voted \u201cpresent\u201d in protest of a line buried in the bill that explicitly claims anti-Zionism is antisemitism.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican-drafted resolution declares that the House of Representatives \u201cclearly and firmly states that anti-Zionism is antisemitism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), the most senior Jewish member of the House, criticized the language of the bill ahead of the vote. \u201cThe resolution suggests that ALL anti-Zionism is antisemitism. That is either intellectually disingenuous or just factually wrong. And it unfairly implicates many of my orthodox former constituents in Brooklyn, many of whose families rose from the ashes of the Holocaust,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Nadler claimed that \u201cmost anti-Zionism is antisemitism\u201d but added that if authors of the bill \u201cwere at all familiar with Jewish history and culture, should know about Jewish anti-Zionism that was, and is, expressly NOT antisemitic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis resolution ignores the fact that even today, certain orthodox Hasidic Jewish communities\u2014the Satmars in New York and others\u2014as well as adherents of the pre-state Jewish labor movement have held views that\u00a0are at odds with the modern Zionist conception,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>While coming out strongly against the language, Nadler voted \u201cpresent\u201d instead of \u201cno.\u201d The thirteen Democrats who voted against the bill include Reps. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), Cori Bush (D-MO), Gerald E. Connolly (D-VA), Jes\u00fas Garc\u00eda (D-IL), Ra\u00fal M. Grijalva (D-AZ), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Summer Lee (D-PA), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Delia Ramirez (D-IL), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) was the only Republican to vote against the bill. Last week,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2023\/11\/28\/rep-massie-casts-lone-no-vote-against-bill-equating-anti-zionism-with-antisemitism\/\">he was the lone member of Congress\u00a0<\/a>to vote against a resolution that claimed \u201cdenying Israel\u2019s right to exist is a form of antisemitism.\u201d Explaining his opposition, Massie said the resolution also equated anti-Zionism with antisemitism, although not as explicitly as the bill passed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2023\/12\/05\/house-passes-bill-that-states-anti-zionism-is-antisemitism\/\">https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2023\/12\/05\/house-passes-bill-that-states-anti-zionism-is-antisemitism\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Passes Bill That States \u2018Anti-Zionism is Antisemitism\u2019 Only 13 Democrats and one Republican voted &#8216;no&#8217; while 92 other Democrats voted &#8216;present&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}