DeLauro, Nadler, Balint & Frost Introduce Antisemitism Response & Prevention Act

WASHINGTON - In the wake of the horrific antisemitic attack in Sydney targeting the Jewish community, U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), alongside U.S. Representatives Jerrold Nadler (NY-12), Becca Balint (VT-AL), and Maxwell Frost (FL-10), introduced the Antisemitism Response and Prevention Act (ARPA).

"I am proud to co-lead the Antisemitism Response and Prevention Act of 2025, which lays out a national strategy for combating the rising threat of antisemitism while protecting freedom of speech, and calls out the Trump Administration's co-opting of antisemitism for its own political agenda," said Congresswoman DeLauro. "The horrific attacks in Australia on a Hannukah market demonstrate that unchecked antisemitic hatred has deadly consequences, and we must do everything in our power to prevent attacks like this in the future. That includes reopening the regional Offices of Civil Rights within the Department of Education that President Trump has closed, and funding nonprofit security grants to protect religious buildings and community centers. We must not stand by while hatred and extremism takes root in our communities."

This comprehensive approach to combating antisemitism supports the Biden Administration's landmark US National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism, including its approach to defining antisemitism. ARPA also fully funds the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Education, undoes the Trump closure of regional offices, prevents regional offices from being closed in the future, and creates greater Congressional oversight into the work of the Department. Additionally, ARPA mandates the designation of a Title VI coordinator on every college campus in order to provide students with additional resources in hopes of preventing antisemitism and other hate on campus. Doing so also would provide on-campus resources to directly report any such incidents, should they occur.

The bill notably creates a Hate Crime Reporting Center and provides additional resources to record, track, index, report, and publish data related to every hate crime committed in the United States. The bill also creates a National Coordinator to Counter Antisemitism to spearhead a whole-of-government response to the antisemitism crisis in America. ARPA fully funds the Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) to harden security and protect religious communities and nonprofits, and ensures that recipients cannot be discriminated against based on partisan political ideologies.

ARPA clearly states that it is against the policy of the United States to use antisemitism as grounds to pursue ulterior political agendas, including attacks on educational institutions, suppressing constitutionally protected speech, or any other enforcement of ideological conformity. ARPA affirms that criticism of Israeli government policy is a form of political speech protected by the First Amendment, and requires reports to Congress by the Executive Branch on the propagation of extremist ideologies in the U.S. and an assessment of the sources of all domestic terror threats.

The bill text can be found here.