(JNS) — The State of Tennessee adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of Jew-hatred in May 2022. On Jan. 2, Mark Pody, a Republican member of the state’s Senate, introduced a resolution that called for that definition of antisemitism to be used when the state makes legal determinations about bias.
“We want to go forward to have a safe place for Jews in Tennessee,” Pody told JNS.
“There have been things this year that have targeted the Jewish community that are not acceptable in Tennessee,” the non-Jewish state senator added. “We wanted to codify this into...
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