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INDIANAPOLIS – Gov. Eric Holcomb Thursday strongly questioned a bill defining and banning antisemitism within the state’s public education system.
He spoke to reporters after signing a bill legalizing happy hours and carry-out alcohol. And he weighed in on the ongoing race to succeed him as governor, as well as other bills left to sign: on public access, a firearms lawsuit, and more.
House and Senate lawmakers struck a last-day compromise on House Enrolled Act 1002, which adopts the core International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism.
Holcomb indicated that compromise is crumbling.
“In the last 24 hours and maybe even late into Friday night, things have changed since then,” he told reporters. “And I want to make sure we get it right. And we don’t just do it to do it.”
People “far and wide” — including from outside the state — have contacted him with concerns, Holcomb said.
That’s because, after hours of discussion and negotiations, the legislation excludes the working definition’s 11 contentious “contemporary examples” of antisemitism, which include references to Israel.
Holcomb noted that 35 other states have adopted the full definition and that leaving out the examples would make Indiana an “outlier.”
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