We are leaders of the Jewish American Affairs Committee of Indiana, a statewide Jewish advocacy group. We crafted House Bill 1002, designed to combat the rising tide of antisemitism in Indiana’s educational system, which was authored by state Rep. Chris Jeter, R-Noblesville.
Because a variety of individuals and groups in Indiana have attempted to discredit our bill, we feel it necessary to refute their misinformation and clarify the bill’s intent and impact.
The bill is in response to the rising tide of global antisemitism, which in recent years has increasingly endangered Jews not only in Israel, but also in diaspora communities including the U.S.
American Jews have suffered in the educational system, especially higher education, due to curricula increasingly biased against Jews and Israel, as well as threats, intimidation, destruction of property and physical violence targeted against Jews on campus.
The pitch of campus Jew hatred reached a crescendo after Oct. 7 when the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (aka Hamas) invaded Israel and sowed carnage that was beyond the scale of anything seen since the Holocaust. Hamas is the ideological cousin of al-Qaida and a group dedicated to annihilating all Jews everywhere, as well as destroying America.