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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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The US House of Representatives has just passed an antisemitism bill, called the Antisemitism Awareness Act. Sam Cabral
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. Reporting from Washington DC
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. Dov Waxman, a professor of Israel studies at UCLA, was sickened by the scenes on his campus last night - when a violent pro-Israeli group attacked a pro-Palestinian protest camp with no apparent police intervention.
However, the definition has drawn criticism from First Amendment supporters. "I couldn't imagine that things would have gotten that bad, to extend to the kind of anarchy we saw, but I wasn't entirely shocked by it," he says.
The bill’s chances of passing the Democratic-controlled Senate remain unclear. Like others, Waxman does not believe the perpetrators were from the UCLA community. Outside agitators, he says, are making it even harder for college administrators to navigate their response to what's happening on their campuses.
But as a long-time scholar of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he also worries that the current moment is further alienating people like him who seek to promote dialogue and understanding between the two sides.
Organisations involved in planning these protests have celebrated Hamas' violence against Israel and their demands often go far beyond an anti-war protest, he warns, effectively "exploiting the sympathy that many students rightly feel for the suffering of Palestinians".
"We need to be promoting dialogue and civil conversations, and educating students in a way that actually helps deepen their understanding of the history of the conflict and of Israel," he said.
"Right now, on both sides of the issue, many students are in distress and feeling beleaguered. We need to be doing that now on our campus because this conflict is spilling over now all around the world."
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