Ron Tusler, a Republican Wisconsin state representative who is not Jewish, opted to become one of the lead authors of a bill that aims to codify the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of Jew-hatred in state law, after hearing from his former University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor.

The latter, who is Jewish, told Tusler why recognizing the IHRA definition in state law was so important for him at a time when the university “was getting more and more antisemitic every year—the professors, the pro-Palestinian people, the protests,” the state representative said.

“He was fed up with it,” he told JNS. (When JNS sought comment from the professor, he referred JNS to an op-ed he penned recently.)

Tusler learned more about the subject and met with others who su

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