Kenneth L. Marcus, founder and chairman of the Louis D. Brandeis Heart for Human Rights Beneath Legislation and the previous U.S. Assistant Secretary of Schooling for Civil Rights for 2 presidents, counseled Florida Governor and Legislators for signing HB 269 into regulation.
“We’re delighted Florida’s Governor right this moment took sturdy motion to handle the alarming spike in anti-Jewish hate crimes by signing Florida’s HB 269. Representatives Caruso and Wonderful ought to be congratulated for his or her management and the Jewish Federation of Palm Seashore County applauded for its work,” Marcus stated.
“We are actually seeing a resurgence of right-wing hate crimes within the streets, simply as we’re seeing left-wing anti-Semitism rising on the campuses. All types of anti-Semitism have to be fought, by way of all accessible authorized means, and we’re happy that this laws will present us with vital extra instruments to take action in Florida, as we proceed to combat this scourge all through the nation,” he added.
The Brandeis Heart offered constitutional and authorized evaluation to Florida’s Jewish group in assist of the invoice.
Jews make up simply 2 per cent of the populace, however, in response to the most recent FBI statistics, Jews have been focused greater than all different spiritual teams mixed.
Anti-Semitic incidents have been rising in Florida for a number of years, in response to the Anti-Defamation League’s 2022 report, “Hate within the Sunshine State.”
As reported by JTA’s Andrew Lapin, “antisemitic teams have rallied outdoors Walt Disney World and a Chabad home in Orlando; displayed messages of Jew-hatred on a Jacksonville stadium throughout a extremely watched faculty soccer sport; and visited Florida universities attempting to impress college students with messaging together with “Ye Is Proper” (referring to the rapper, previously often known as Kanye West, who went on an antisemitic tirade final fall).”