Congress Introduces ADL-Backed 'Countering Antisemitism Act' to Police Online Speech

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Apr. 11, 2024

A bipartisan pair of AIPAC-funded senators have introduced a new bill backed by the Anti-Defamation League aimed at silencing criticism of Jews and Israel and policing Americans' online speech.

The bill comes as Israel is committing an active genocide of Palestinians with US-supplied bombs and inducing a man-made famine in Gaza.

"The Countering Antisemitism Act is the most far-reaching antisemitism initiative to be introduced in Congress," ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said Thursday on X. "It offers a smart, bipartisan, whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach to combating this hatred and protecting Jews around the country."

The Countering Antisemitism Act is the most far-reaching antisemitism initiative to be introduced in Congress. It offers a smart, bipartisan, whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach to combating this hatred and protecting Jews around the country. https://t.co/PMQnqlYoB6

— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) April 11, 2024

Here's how the ADL describes the bill in a statement on their website:

The Countering Antisemitism Act (CAA)—the most comprehensive antisemitism initiative to be introduced in Congress—will implement the National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism and ensure its policies and infrastructure are made permanent.

As ADL data shows, the U.S. Jewish community is facing the worst crisis of antisemitism that we have seen in a generation. As we reach the conclusion of the National Strategy's 12-month timeline, we must guarantee the important policies within the plan continue to protect Jewish lives. The Countering Antisemitism Act will ensure these policies endure and create lasting executive structures to prioritize and fight antisemitism, including a domestic National Coordinator and a dedicated Task Force that meets regularly to coordinate efforts to fight antisemitism across federal agencies.

As we face such historic levels of antisemitism, the Countering Antisemitism Act offers a smart, innovative whole-of-government approach to combating this hatred and protecting Jews around the country.

The Countering Antisemitism Act is authored by Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and James Lankford (R-OK) and Reps. Kathy Manning (D-NC) and Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chairs of the House and Senate Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism.

Key Provisions

- Establishes a National Coordinator to Counter Antisemitism to serve as the President's principal advisor on countering domestic antisemitism and coordinate Federal efforts to counter antisemitism.

- Establishes an Interagency Task Force to Counter Antisemitism to coordinate the implementation of Federal strategies to counter antisemitism.

- Requires federal agencies to submit a report to Congress detailing their implementation of the National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism.

- Requires the FBI, DHS, and National Counterterrorism Center to jointly produce an annual threat assessment of antisemitic violent extremism.

- Requires the National Coordinator to conduct an annual analysis of online antisemitic content, including Holocaust denial and distortion, and prepare recommendations for Congress on how to counter the spread of antisemitism online.

- Requires the Department of Education to designate a senior official to advise and oversee the Department's efforts to counter antisemitic discrimination at colleges and universities.

- Requires the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to study Holocaust education efforts across public K-12 schools.

- Requires FEMA to ensure they have sufficient resources and personnel to carry out the Nonprofit Security Grant Program.

- Formally designates May as "Jewish American Heritage Month."

The bill is supposed to work in concert with the Biden administration's "National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism" which called on "all online platforms" to ban "extremist websites," ban "hate speech" and institute "zero tolerance" policies to protect Jews from antisemitism.



If someone introduced the same bill but replaced "Jews" with "Whites" or "Christians" and demanded policing of "antiwhiteism" and "anti-Christianism" they would be laughed out of Congress.

Instead, we're getting "conservative" states like South Dakota, Georgia, Florida and Texas passing what amounts to hate speech laws to silence all criticism of "God's chosen people."



Two and a half centuries of free speech needs to come to an end to prevent the Jewish State from being criticized while they're actively committing genocide.

A U.S. aid official warns that famine has begun in northern Gaza — the first U.S. official to publicly say so. https://t.co/67n7ystJUM

— Axios (@axios) April 11, 2024

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Inside the UN Plan to Control Speech Online

The UN is escalating its war against 'conspiracy theories' and 'misinformation' by creating an 'internet of trust.'

By Alex Newman

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Nov 24, 2023

Updated:

Nov 25, 2023

A powerful United Nations agency has unveiled a plan to regulate social media and online communication while cracking down on what it describes as “false information” and “conspiracy theories,” sparking alarm among free-speech advocates and top U.S. lawmakers.

In its 59-page report released this month, the U.N. Educational, Cultural, and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) outlined a series of “concrete measures which must be implemented by all stakeholders: governments, regulatory authorities, civil society, and the platforms themselves.”

This approach includes the imposition of global policies, through institutions such as governments and businesses, designed to stop the spread of various forms of speech while promoting objectives such as “cultural diversity” and “gender equality.”

In particular, the U.N. agency aims to create an “Internet of Trust” by targeting what it calls “misinformation,” “disinformation,” “hate speech,” and “conspiracy theories.”

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Source:   https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/inside-the-un-plan-to-control-speech-online-5534524?src_src=partner&src_cmp=ZeroHedge

 

DHS Awards $20 Million To Program That Flags Americans As Potential “Extremists” For Their Online Speech

by Cindy Harper | Reclaim the NetSeptember 15th 2023, 4:12 am

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The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded 34 grants to as many organizations, worth a total of $20 million, whose role will be to undergo training in order to flag potential online “extremist” speech of Americans.

The money will be spent from the Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP) grant program for fiscal year 2023, while the recipients include police, mental health providers, universities, churches and school districts.

According to DHS, this program (administered by its Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships, CP3, and for some reason, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA) is the only federal one of its kind whose goal is “helping local communities develop and strengthen their capabilities in combating targeted violence and terrorism.”

Those given the money from the grants fund are expected to develop prevention programming at the community level that would stop “targeted violence and terrorism,” as well as come up with innovative prevention ideas, and “identify prevention best practices that can be replicated in communities nationwide.”

In announcing and explaining the need for such spending, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas cited the Jacksonville shooting. As he remarked while justifying the awarding of grants, the event was racially motivated, and – “[it] made painfully clear, targeted violence and terrorism can impact any community, anywhere.”

DHS claims that the “current” environment is one of heightened – and lethal – threat, based on ideology or personal grievances of “lone offenders and small groups.”

The DHS announcement came on the anniversary of 9/11, but it showed that the focus is now on Americans rather than some foreign terrorist threat (or even foreign terrorist gangs in the habit of “invading” US soil).

And the way the terrorist threat is defined here looks more like a drive to suppress dissent to dominant narratives pushed by the government and large traditional and social media who work in concert with the federal authorities.

Specifically, what opponents of such policy single out as possible reasons to be branded a violent extremists or (domestic) terrorist could be disagreeing, and expressing that opinion online on anything from Covid, vaccines, gun rights, gender and LGBTQ policies, the war in Ukraine, or immigration.

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Source:  https://reclaimthenet.org/dhs-funds-program-extremists-online-speech 

Blogger's note:  This mellon head Mayorkas is a dual citizen, and he has NEVER signed an oath of office.  So clearly his patriotism is NOT to the US.  He cares NOT what the Constitution nor the Rule of Law sets down.  He is working to destroy this nation, and he is succeeding.