Florida Senate - 2024                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 148
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  01/29/2024           .                                
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       The Committee on Judiciary (Berman) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
    2  
    3         Delete lines 53 - 87
    4  and insert:
    5         (a) Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or
    6  harming of Jewish individuals.
    7         (b) Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or
    8  stereotypical allegations about Jewish individuals as such or
    9  the power of Jewish people as a collective, such as, the myth of
   10  a worldwide Jewish conspiracy or of Jewish individuals
   11  controlling the media, economy, government, or other societal
   12  institutions.
   13         (c) Accusing Jewish people as a collective of being
   14  responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a
   15  single Jewish person or group or for acts committed by non
   16  Jewish individuals.
   17         (d) Denying the fact, scope, and mechanisms, such as gas
   18  chambers, or the intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish
   19  people at the hands of Nazi Germany and its supporters and
   20  accomplices during the Holocaust.
   21         (e) Accusing Jewish people as a collective, or Israel as a
   22  state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.
   23         (f) Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel,
   24  or to the alleged priorities of Jewish individuals worldwide,
   25  than to the interests of their respective nations.
   26         (g) Denying the Jewish people their right to self
   27  determination, such as claiming that the existence of a State of
   28  Israel is a racist endeavor.
   29         (h) Applying double standards by requiring of the Jewish
   30  state of Israel a standard of behavior not expected or demanded
   31  of any other democratic nation.
   32         (i) Using the symbols and images associated with classic
   33  antisemitism, such as blood libel, to characterize Israel or
   34  Israelis.
   35         (j) Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to
   36  that of the Nazis.
   37         (k) Holding Jewish individuals collectively responsible for
   38  actions of the state of Israel.
   39         (3) The term “antisemitism” does not include criticism of
   40  Israel that is similar to criticism of any other country.
   41         (4) This section may not be construed to diminish or
   42  infringe upon any right protected under the First Amendment to
   43  the United States Constitution or to conflict with federal or
   44  state antidiscrimination laws.