A bipartisan slate of leading House of Representatives members has introduced a bill that would expand how the Department of Education defines anti-Semitism in advising learning institutions on how to identify discrimination.

The bill introduced Dec. 2 by Illinois Republican Peter Roskam and Florida Democrat Ted Deutch replicates a similar bill passed last week by the Senate. It is backed by a handful of bipartisan House leaders.

The measure expands previous guidelines sent periodically to educational institutions receiving federal funding to define anti-Semitism according to a definition first published by the State Department in 2010.

The definition outlines when criticism of Israel crosses into anti-Semitism, citing the “three Ds” advanced by Natan Sharansky, former prisoner of the Soviet gulag: demonization, double standard and delegitimization. — jta

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