Opinion | California Democrats Are Fighting Trump’s Battle for Him - The New York Times

Ms. Greenberg Call is a former special adviser to the chief of staff at the Department of the Interior. I was the only Jewish appointee to resign from the Biden administration over the U.S. government’s continued support for Israel’s war in Gaza. I did it because I believe dissent is a democratic duty, not a liability. But in my home state of California, Democratic leaders are pushing a bill that would make dissent harder, riskier and in some cases punishable. Assembly Bill 715 is framed as a measure to combat an “antisemitic learning environment.” In reality, it imports one of the most troubling censorship tactics from the Trump era into a deep-blue state. Democrats are the ones leading the charge. What constitutes antisemitism? A.B. 715 would require California’s K-12 public schools to adopt a definition that largely falls in line with the one developed by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. On its face, this might seem like a common-sense measure to fight prejudice. Bu

Ms. Greenberg Call is a former special adviser to the chief of staff at the Department of the Interior. I was the only Jewish appointee to resign from the Biden administration over the U.S. government’s continued support for Israel’s war in Gaza. I did it because I believe dissent is a democratic duty, not a liability. But in my home state of California, Democratic leaders are pushing a bill that would make dissent harder, riskier and in some cases punishable. Assembly Bill 715 is framed as a measure to combat an “antisemitic learning environment.” In reality, it imports one of the most troubl