Phoenix (AP) -The Arizona Gouvener Katie Hobbs has made a proposal that would have banned the teaching of anti-Semitism at the state’s public K-12 schools, universities and universities that violate the up-to-date rules of discipline and complaints.
The proposal would have banned teachers and administrators to teach or promote anti -Semitism or anti -Semitic actions that create an enemy environment that demands the genocide of a group or obliges the students to work for an anti -Semitic point of view. It would also have prevented public schools to operate public funds to support the teaching of anti -Semitism.
The educators would have been personally responsible for covering the compensation costs for violation of the rules.
Hobbs, a democrat, said on Tuesday that the law was not about anti -Semitism, but the attack by teachers.
“An unacceptable level of personal liability for our public school, our community college and the university educators and employees starts and opens it for the threat of personally costly complaints,” she said in a statement. “In addition, it is a dangerous precedent that aims at public school teachers and protect private school.”
Hobbs described anti -Semitism as a very disturbing topic in the United States, but said that pupils and parents can go through the state education committee in order to report anti -Semitism.
The measure rejected the legislature last week with a 33-20 vote of the house, including some Democrats who exceeded the party borders to support them. It is one of the few suggestions to combat anti -Semitism across the country.
The Democrats tried, however, could not remove the legal sentence and exchanged references to anti -Semitism within the law with “illegal discrimination” in order to reflect on other discrimination.
The chief sponsor of the draft law, the Republican MP Michael Way, from Queen Creek, described the veto as “disgraceful” on the social media platform X that the legislation should be “outrageous and obviously anti -Semitic content” from the classroom.
“To suggest that most teachers in Arizona are threatened to be threatened with at best insincere,” he added.
The opponents said that the legislation aimed to silence people who talk about the oppression of the Palestinians and opened educators for personal legal liability in lawsuits who could submit students.
Pupils over the age of 18 and the parents of younger students would have been able to lodge complaints about violations that create an enemy educational environment to blame teachers for the payment of damage that may be awarded, who can refuse immunity and prohibit the state to pay for complaints from such complaints.
Last week Lori Shepherd, Executive Director of the Tucson Jewish Museum & Holocaust Center, wrote in a letter to Hobbs that the ability of the teachers would threaten the ability of the teachers to offer the students a complete report on the Holocaust.
After the draft law, “these discussions could be considered” anti -Semitic “, depending on how a single phrase is interpreted regardless of the intention or the context,” she said.
The invoice would have created a process to punish those who violate the rules. At the K-12 schools, a violation of initial exertion would lead to a reference, a second crime to suspend a teacher or a headmaster certificate and a third crime against a revocation of the certificate.
At Colleges and universities, violations of the first crime, a suspension without payment for a second crime and a termination for a third crime, had suspended before a reference. The proposal would also have called for universities and universities to consider violations of employees as a negative factor for employment or office times.
As part of the proposal, universities and universities could not recognize a student organization that invites a guest speaker who encourages anti -Semitism, encouraged its members to deal with anti -Semitism or to demand the genocide of a group.
Elsewhere in the United States, a legislator in Louisiana is urging a solution that calls for the universities to adopt guidelines to combat anti-Semitism on campus and to collect data on anti-Semitism-related reports and symptoms. And a legislator in Michigan has proposed to bring a definition of anti -Semitism into the state’s civil rights law.
