The Arizona House of Representatives passed a final version of HB 2867, the Antisemitism in Education Act, on Wednesday, the last hurdle it faced before going to the Governor’s Office for approval.

If signed by Gov. Katie Hobbs, the bill would allow students and their families to hold educators civilly liable for promoting antisemitic ideology in the classroom. Arizona teachers would be responsible for their own court costs. Antisemitism, according to the bill, is based on a working definition from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.

“A teacher may have an interaction with a student in which a student may perceive that they were being taught something antisemitic, could go home and tell a parent, a parent could hire an attorney, and the teacher would be served paperwork say

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