Enacts the "stop Anti-Semitism on college campuses act" to ensure no state aid is granted to any college or university that authorizes, facilitates, provides funding for, or otherwise supports any event promoting Anti-Semitism on campus; defines "Anti-Semitism".
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8284
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
November 27, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. E. BROWN, BENDETT, DeSTEFANO, STERN, MORINELLO,
BEEPHAN, LEMONDES, SLATER, BLANKENBUSH, FLOOD, GALLAHAN, GANDOLFO,
SMITH, BRABENEC, NOVAKHOV, TAGUE, SIMPSON, FITZPATRICK, BROOK-KRASNY,
HAWLEY, MANKTELOW, JENSEN, CHANG, MCGOWAN, SMULLEN, MIKULIN, DURSO,
BLUMENCRANZ, RA, McDONOUGH, K. BROWN, GOODELL, ANGELINO, BARCLAY,
MAHER, PIROZZOLO, MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Higher Education
AN ACT in relation to enacting the "stop anti-Semitism on college
campuses act"
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
2 the "stop anti-Semitism on college campuses act."
3 § 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule or regulation,
4 no state aid shall be granted to any college or university that author-
5 izes, facilitates, provides funding for, or otherwise supports any event
6 promoting anti-Semitism on campus.
7 § 3. The term "anti-Semitism" means the public demonstration of nega-
8 tive actions, behaviors or perceptions regarding those persons practic-
9 ing the Jewish religion or exhibiting a Jewish heritage, including:
10 a. hatred or severe disparagement toward the Jewish people or their
11 culture;
12 b. rhetorical, violent and/or physical manifestations directed against
13 Jewish or non-Jewish individuals or property, Jewish community insti-
14 tutions, and/or Jewish religious facilities;
15 c. the calling for, aiding, encouraging, supporting or justifying the
16 killing, harming or defaming of anyone, simply for practicing the Jewish
17 religion or exhibiting a Jewish heritage;
18 d. making false and mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, demeaning or
19 stereotypical allegations, about persons practicing the Jewish religion,
20 or about those who exhibit a Jewish heritage, or about the myth about a
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 world Jewish conspiracy, or about Jewish persons allegedly controlling
2 the media, economy, government or other societal institutions;
3 e. accusing those practicing the Jewish religion, or exhibiting a
4 Jewish heritage, whether singularly or collectively, as being wholly
5 responsible for any real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single
6 Jewish person or group;
7 f. accusing those practicing the Jewish religion, or exhibiting a
8 Jewish heritage, whether singularly or collectively, as being wholly
9 responsible for any real or imagined wrongdoing committed by the state
10 of Israel; and
11 g. accusing those practicing the Jewish religion, or exhibiting a
12 Jewish heritage, whether singularly or collectively, of being more loyal
13 to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jewish people worldwide, than
14 to the interests of the people of the state of New York, or to the
15 interests of the people of the United States of America.
16 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
