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Campus protests live: Police move in on University of Texas at Dallas protesters - BBC News Campus protests live: Police move in on University of Texas at Dallas protesters - BBC News
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Tuesday's turn of events filled members of the university community, including Columbia president Minouche Shafik, with "deep sadness", Chang said during the presser. The US House of Representatives has just passed an antisemitism bill, called the Antisemitism Awareness Act.
"These are acts of destruction, not political speech," Chang said of the occupation of Hamilton Hall. It seeks to require the US Department of Education to define antisemitism based on the definition used by the International Holocaust Rememembrance alliance, and cuts off funding to schools found to allow antisemitic behaviors.
This includes "rhetorical and physical manifestations” of antisemitism, like calling for the killing or harming of Jews, as well as holding Jews at-large responsible for the state of Israel's actions.
However, the definition has drawn criticism from First Amendment supporters.
The bill’s chances of passing the Democratic-controlled Senate remain unclear.
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