CAIR-NJ to protest bill defining antisemitism under IHRA standard ahead of committee vote

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TRENTON, N.J. — The New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NJ) will hold a press conference this week outside the district office of Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin to protest a proposed state law that would adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism.

The press event comes ahead of a Thursday hearing and possible vote by the Assembly State and Local Government Committee on Bill A3558, which seeks to make the IHRA definition the legal standard for identifying antisemitism in the state. The legislation also appropriates $100,000 to the Attorney General’s Office for a public awareness campaign on bias crime reporting.

CAIR-NJ and other advocacy groups argue that the IHRA definition conflates…