US politicians voted Wednesday to expand the legal definition of anti-Semitism used to enforce laws against discrimination. The cross-party Anti-Semitism Awareness Act requires the Department of Education to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism when tackling discrimination. The IHRA states that “denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination” by, for example, “claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor” is a form of anti-Semitism.
