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Welcome back to Unbias. Today is Thursday, May 2nd. This is your final news rundown of the week, and we're doing things a little different today and just jumping right into the first story

Which is that last night the House of Representatives passed the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act.

The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act was first introduced in October following sort of the

beginnings of the war-related issues on campuses.

You may remember the Congress had that anti-Semitism hearing with some of the

deans of some universities that's when this bill was first introduced the vote

last night was very much bipartisan it was 320 to 91 and it'll now head to the Senate but here's what you need to know about it.

In 2019 former President Trump signed Executive Order 13899 and this executive order

extended discrimination protections under specifically title six of the Civil Rights Act to people subjected to anti-semitism on college campuses.

Under the order, federal agencies when enforcing title six were

directed to consider the definition of anti-Semitism as set forth by the

international Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.

So that definition, which we'll talk about in a minute, is the definition that the Department

of Education and other agencies were instructed to use when evaluating

whether on-campus discriminatory behavior was considered to be

anti-Semitic and therefore a violation of title six.

But the executive order also directed agencies

to consider what are called contemporary examples of anti-Semitism

to the extent that any of those contemporary examples might be useful

as evidence of discriminatory intent. And these examples were also set forth by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, or the IHRA, as you'll hear me refer to it as.

Now, here's the thing, and this is where most outlets are kind of like not really going too much into detail they're

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