March 5, 2024: 10:15 AM EST - Livestream

The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing entitled, Never To Be Silent: Stemming the Tide of Antisemitism in America. No witnesses have been announced as of this writing. Also see: Senate Judiciary Committee to hold antisemitism hearing on March 5 (Jewish Insider 2/26/25 – “…Next week’s hearing will be the first specifically focused on antisemitism in the Senate since the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7, 2023. No Senate committee held hearings focused on the subject in the last Congress, with Democrats and then Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) largely avoiding the issue while in control of the upper chamber.  The hearing’s singular concern with antisemitism marks a shift from how Democrats on the Judiciary Committee approached the issue when they held the majority. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), who chaired the committee until Republicans retook the Senate, declined requests from his GOP colleagues to hold a hearing specifically on rising antisemitism...” —

Livestream link: Never To Be Silent: Stemming the Tide of... | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary

NOTE — Jewish Insider’s summary of that last hearing omits the fact that Republican members of the Senate hijacked the hearing to attack the one Muslim-American on the panel, as reported in real time in the Round-Up, and as covered widely in the media, including: GOP senator insults Arab American advocate at hearing on hate crimes (Washington Post); Racist questions are asked as Arab American rights leader testifies at hearing (NPR); Senator tells activist to hide her ‘head in a bag’ during hate crimes hearing (AP); Sen. John Kennedy used a Senate hearing on hate crimes to spew hate (MSNBC)