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It barely had the votes in the House. Hopefully, the Senate will kill this bill.
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Not only will this hurt children and families, some of whom will die….This undermines our role in the world. This makes the world and us less safe.
When we leave and abandon these places and people, one of our adversaries will fill the void.
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6. They’re cutting PBS – Sesame Street – meaning kids here will go without the early learning and other educational programming that PBS provides.
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5. Over $435 million cut to programs that provide medicine, vaccines and other support to children all over the world.
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4. They’re permanently cutting $400 million from one of the most successful HIV/AIDs programs ever.
This program has saved over 25 million lives.
8 million babies were born HIV free because of this program.
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 3. A $300 million cut to family planning services.
48 million people will be affected and it could lead to 34,000 maternal deaths.
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2. Another $800 million in permanent cuts to children and families fleeing violence.
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1. The bill slashes $4.15 billion in humanitarian programs for children.
Globally, this means that 40 million children will no longer have school.Â
Hunger will spread and at least 3.6 million children will go without clean water.
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This bill is a legitimate example of how billionaires are running the government. The world's richest people are going after the country’s and the world’s poorest children.
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It makes permanent about $10 billion in DOGE cuts.Â
These are cuts that Elon Musk, Donald Trump and others in the administration, the billionaires, want.
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Instead, if everyone focused on the regime in Iran, banded together to end its terror armies and its nuclear ambitions, we would get to peace. This is an infinitely better strategy.
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There will be peace when Iran no longer has a nuclear program, a civil one sure, and their terror armies dismantled.
Palestinians, Syrians, the Lebanese, and Israel can be free of this terror.
Peace will follow.
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I stand with Israel and the rest of the West as we confront this threat together.
Iran must get rid of all of their enriched uranium, allow for immediate and ongoing inspections, and dismantle their terror armies, including Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis.
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Iran’s nuclear program isn’t just an existential threat to Israel and the Middle East, it’s a threat to the world.
Diplomacy has been given every opportunity, but the Iranian regime refuses to give up their nuclear ambitions.
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I would encourage my colleagues to stop politicizing this, on both sides. Our safety and wellbeing are at stake, and antisemitism should be a nonpartisan, non-controversial issue.Â
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The fact that it’s not says a lot.
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Here’s an example that may help:
There are 100,000 Jews in Australia. Antisemitism is surging there, too. If they get kicked out, they only have one place they can go. Israel. That’s it. We’re not taking 100,000 Jews from Australia, nor is any other country. Except Israel.
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I also push on Israel because I need it to succeed. Jews need a Jewish state. That is non-negotiable. Nearly all Jews live in two places - here and Israel. That’s not by choice.
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I criticize Israel when I think the government is making mistakes. I do so in part because I desperately want to be part of a generation of leaders that finally achieves a durable peace for everyone in the Middle East - Israelis, Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians, etc.
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I’m a pro-Israel Jew who criticizes Israel, as we all do. I sometimes fly to Israel to be sure I look the Prime Minister in the eye and tell him my frustrations and disagreements with decisions he’s made. I believe it has had an impact.
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Denying Jews self-determination, or anti-Zionism, is wrong. Denying Palestinians self-determination is also wrong, and why most pro-Israel advocates are also pro-Palestinian.Â
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It’s the folks who believe that only one group deserves security and freedom that is problematic.
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It’s so important for Marjorie Taylor Greene to maintain this blood libel, and to do so without consequences, that she opposes this bill.Â
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Some on the Left suggest that the legislation prohibits criticism of Israel.Â
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It does not.
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Whether any of us want to admit it, antisemitism is alive and well all across the political spectrum – and across the world.
Some on the Right like to spread the lie that Jews killed Jesus, which is the kind of blood libel that gets Jews killed.
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Anti-Zionism is different from being critical of the Israeli government. Anti-Zionism is the position that Israel should not be allowed to exist as a Jewish State.
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Israelis criticize their government and, unlike so many other countries in the Middle East, are allowed to protest their government openly.
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The bill allows for criticism of policies or actions of the Israeli government, which is exactly how it should be.
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The bill requires colleges to use this definition in building out trainings and teachings that help to combat antisemitism. That’s it. It doesn’t punish any speech or stop anyone from being hateful.
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It uses the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition for antisemitism but nowhere in the bill does it punish people for this antisemitism.
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Here is a quick summary of the definition, which I hope folks read.
 holocaustremembrance.com/resources/wo...)
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The bill emphasizes:
➡️Awareness and understanding
➡️Reversing the normalization of antisemitism through education
➡️Expanding communication and collaboration.
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This is about giving people the tools to learn about antisemitism and how it is often expressed around the world. It is education and awareness, not punishment.
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It does say that some things are antisemitic, which is pretty basic stuff, but it doesn’t outlaw anyone’s 1st amendment rights.
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Trump’s actions have had a chilling effect on free speech.
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But this legislation doesn’t curb free speech.Â
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Despite what you may hear online, the Antisemitism Awareness Act does not infringe on free speech.
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But if he wants to fight antisemitism, he would work with groups like the American Jewish Committee (AJC) that partners with organizations on how to identify and combat anti-Semitism without infringing on anyone’s 1st amendment rights.Â
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Trump’s actions on campuses have not helped. Campuses have become hotbeds of antisemitism that have sparked a debate about where the line between protecting the rights and freedoms of Jews and free speech is.