Virginia Democrats killed bills supported by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin aimed at combatting antisemitism just two days before Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Decades-long project names 4.8 million victims to be honored.
Six Republicans and one Democrat — Senate Majority Leader Dick Saslaw, who's Jewish – voted for the bill in committee. However, seven Democrats, led by Senate President Pro tempore Louise Lucas, voted against it and an eighth, state Sen. Jennifer McClellan, abstained from the vote, killing the measure before it could get to the floor.
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, pictured here, supported two measures aimed at combatting antisemitism, but Virginia Democrats killed both measures.As of December, a total of 1,116 global entities — from countries to companies — have adopted and endorsed IHRA's non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism, according to the Combat Antisemitism Movement. In the U.S., this includes 30 states and 56 cities and counties.
Experts have argued the definition is important for a range of practical uses such as adjudicating legal cases, monitoring bigotry on campuses, and training law enforcement.
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