Crime & Law
In a minimum of eight states nationwide, lawmakers are engaged on measures to outline antisemitism, part of an upsurge of laws motivated partly by the Israel-Hamas struggle. Arkansas passed such a law last year, and like in Georgia, a South Carolina measure handed one chamber in 2023. New payments are pending this yr in Indiana, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey and South Dakota. The law would also make any two crimes subject to Georgia’s hate crimes law eligible for prosecution beneath the state’s expansive anti-racketeering statute.
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