Watch the Full Interview HERE.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) joined CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper to talk about her sweeping bipartisan bill to strengthen federal efforts to fight antisemitism – including in U.S. academic settings, at Jewish communal institutions, and online. The bipartisan Jewish American Security Act would require the Department of Education to develop and implement a comprehensive Title VI framework to combat antisemitism on college campuses, make a historic $1 billion investment in security resources for at-risk houses of worship and other non-profit institutions, and hold large social media platforms accountable by requiring transparency regarding their handling of antisemitic content online.
Below is a transcript of the exchange:
Jake Tapper: Let’s turn to the bipartisan bill that you have worked on with Republican Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma. You introduced it to combat the alarming rise of antisemitism across the U.S. This month, the Anti-Defamation League published a report of antisemitic incidents in the U.S. last year and found “2025 was the third-highest year on record for antisemitic incidents since ADL began tracking them in 1979,” and “physical assaults reached a record high with three people killed in anti-semitic attacks last year.” So how would your bill combat it? How would it fight this growing threat?
Senator Rosen: Well, thank you for asking me. We’ve been working on this bill for well over a year now. It is the Jewish American Security Act, and it’s going to address three things to fight domestic antisemitism. One, on our college campuses – we’re going to be sure that we have a mechanism for Jewish students, and actually for all minority students, to have this mechanism to report and be able to get their complaints heard and mitigated. So there’s a lot going on there to protect our students. Next, we’re going to protect our houses of worship. And my heart goes out to the folks in San Diego yesterday, the Islamic Center. We need to be able to harden our places of worship and religious community centers through our Nonprofit Security Grants. So we’re asking for more funding for that, and more funding for our local police departments to help protect vulnerable, vulnerable religious communities within their purview. And the third place we’re looking at is online. So if you’re a platform that has more than 50 million users, we want you to report on what you’re seeing against antisemitism – how you’re responding, how the algorithms are working – because we want to protect free speech, but there’s a place that it goes from free speech into fomenting violence or really crossing over crossing that line.
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