And the text of the bill is here: leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCo...

These are the Senate Education Committee members, if you want to voice your views on the bill before their hearing this afternoon: sedn.senate.ca.gov/members

3. Most concerningly, the bill repeatedly conflates being Jewish and being Israeli, which risks seeing any criticism of Israel as antisemitism.

2. The bill allows anonymous complaints. Combined with the above, that will lead to a proliferation of bad-faith complaints, in addition to the legitimate ones.

1. The bill does not define “antisemitism” and instead leaves it up to whoever adjudicates complaints to apply whatever definition they think appropriate. This will chill teaching, writing and learning about Israel/Palestine.

In the wise, wise words of my five-year-old, “if a machine told me something that my brain knew was wrong, I’d just turn off that machine”

GPT-5 insisted to my sister that the word “strawberry” has 2 r’s in it. PhD-level stuff. Definitely worth my kids not having an inhabitable planet when they’re older.

So well deserved!