New Bipartisan Bill Seeks to Outlaw Criticism of Israel and Jewish Power
Eric Striker • July 1, 2026
Last year’s defeat of the Antisemitism Awareness Act
(AAA) by a coalition of progressive Democrats and patriotic Republicans caught
the Jewish community off guard.
According to a report by Jewish Insider,
Chuck Schumer and his Republican collaborator’s attempt to sneak the AAA into the 2025 National Defense
Authorization Act was thwarted when a coalition of nationalist podcasters such
as Tucker Carlson and various Palestine sympathetic left-wing groups called
attention to its draconian provisions and drew backlash to the bill.
Rather than give up, Jewish groups reeling from the
defeat have decided to launch a renewed offensive, this time attacking
opposition to their Zionist agenda at its root: freedom of speech, especially on
social media.
In May and June, a bipartisan coalition of 15 House
Republicans and 14 Democrats formally sponsored the Jewish American Security Act (JASA), a piece of legislation that if passed
would constitute one of the most sweeping attacks on the First Amendment in
American history. The bill enjoys practically universal backing from Jewish
non-profits and Zionist activist groups.
The new law presents four major demands: the
appointment of a specialized Anti-Semitism commissar to manage the Department
of Education’s campaign combating pro-Palestinian activism on college campuses,
a $1 billion dollar cash injection to “secure” Zionist non-profits and Jewish
houses of worship, mandatory state monitoring of online social media platforms
in order to force them to censor “anti-Semitic” political speech on their
platforms, and officially reorienting the mission of the FBI, Department of Homeland
Security, and National Counterintelligence and Security Center as instruments
for targeting critics of Jews and Israel as foreign enemy actors and domestic
terrorists.
On the education front, JASA strengthens and makes
permanent Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14188 (“Additional Measures to Combat
Antisemitism”), which emphasizes that Israelis are a protected class above
criticism under the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Under executive orders signed by Joe
Biden and Donald Trump, this interpretation of the law has been used to
weaponize access to federal subsidies to American higher learning institutions
in order to shut down pro-Palestinian and
anti-war activism among
students.
In addition to having an “Antisemitism Coordinator”
micro-manage this ongoing war on dissent, JASA calls for a “public awareness
campaign” that will plaster propaganda posters in “high-traffic public places,
such as a cafeteria, gymnasium, or student center, and digital posting on 1 or
more high-traffic institution web pages, such as a web page for a student
services department” warning students and professors about the consequences of
partaking in speech and activism that offends Jews or singles out Israel.
JASA also seeks to bump FEMA’s Nonprofit Security
Grant program, which currently provides $300 million dollars meant to be shared
among different houses of worship facing security threats (though Jewish groups
still eat up the majority of the grants), up to $1 billion in subsidies directed for the
exclusive use of Jewish organizations. This specific Jewish set-aside likely
violates normative Constitutional provisions preventing government favoritism
to a single religion, but this does not seem to be a concern in the
legislation.
If passed, JASA would represent a militarization of
American-Jewish life, which contrary to claims from Jewish grievance groups, is
no more susceptible to bias or violent interference than Christian worship. In 2025, 24 people were killed in homicidal attacks targeting Christians across
the nation to practically no media fanfare, including a massacre at a Mormon
church in Michigan and a shooting of several Catholic children hearing mass in
Minnesota.
Most concerning is JASA’s requirement that online
social media companies provide mandatory reports every six months to Congress
on anti-Semitic and anti-Israel opinions being shared on their platforms,
outline their strategies for content removal and suppression, as well as
coordinate with federal law enforcement in real time to combat what the bill’s
authors judge as “extremist antisemitic calls.”
A fixation in JASA and much of the Jewish discourse
around shutting down debate is the assertion that growing American antipathy to
the role of Jews and Israel in Washington is a foreign conspiracy emanating
from China, Russia, Qatar, and Iran. A recent State Department report trying to
make people take this claim seriously was circulated among the US
Congressmen, but not made public, likely to avoid scrutiny of its methodology.
In response to this supposed “foreign interference”
seeking to “erode public trust in institutions,” JASA calls for action against
“inauthentic amplification on digital platforms, such as bots or campaigns, and
any involvement of foreign state and non-state actors.” Under the new law,
federal law enforcement and intelligence services will be officially
transformed into a secret police force dedicated to combating “Antisemitism”
and required to create reports categorizing protected political speech as violence
by featuring “(i) an overview of violent extremist ideologies that include
antisemitic components; (ii) a review of the extent that actors in the United
States have engaged in violent conduct in furtherance of the ideologies
described in clause (i); (iii) the origins and online platforming and online
activity or presence of antisemitic domestic violent extremist ideologies,
groups, and individuals.”
Such a law, if passed, would treat figures as
prominent as Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Megyn Kelly, Thomas
Massie, Ana Kasparian, Ilhan Omar and Candace Owens, as well as many smaller
critics that have arisen in recent years, as terrorists and enemies of the
state.
Congressional backing for the Jewish American Security
Act remains small for now, but the extent of support it enjoys from the
organized Jewish community in conjunction with the outsized role of Jewish
billionaires in financing both parties means that it is guaranteed to rapidly
gain traction in the near future and become a threat. Let’s call attention to
this audacious attack on our civil liberties and make sure JASA is killed in
its crib.
