In at least eight states nationwide, lawmakers are working on measures to outline antisemitism, part of an upsurge of legislation motivated in part by the Israel-Hamas warfare. Arkansas handed such a law last yr, and like in Georgia, a South Carolina measure handed one chamber in 2023. New bills are pending this year in Indiana, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey and South Dakota. The law would additionally make any two crimes subject to Georgia’s hate crimes law eligible for prosecution underneath the state’s expansive anti-racketeering statute.
But fears of opponents who say House Bill 30 could be used as a protect…