Setting the Record Straight about the Anti-Semitism Bill

Last week, the House of Representatives passed a measure that, if approved by the Senate, would more fully extend the protections of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to Jews. The bill prompted backlash from the left, the far right, and civil libertarians, mostly based on claims that it would stifle free expression. David E. Bernstein explains that, contra these critics, the bill “has nothing to do with criminal law, does not ‘ban’ anything, and thus does not criminalize speech.” Nor does it prohibit any kind of speech under civil law.