The House is preparing for a Thursday vote on a controversial amendment introduced by Squad Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) to legislation expanding university foreign donation disclosure requirements.

The base legislation, known as the DETERRENT Act, aims to address concerns that donations from Qatar, Iran and other foreign adversaries are fueling antisemitic and anti-Israel sentiment on college campuses. The bill would lower reporting thresholds for foreign donations from $250,000 to $50,000, while requiring disclosure of any donation size from designated countries of concern.

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However, Tlaib’s amendments would expand reporting requirements to include countries defending cases at the International Court of Justice related to war crimes or genocide accusations, and countries with officials facing ICC arrest warrants. In other words, Israel and its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“We know that President Trump is the biggest threat to our education system in America right now, not someone in North Korea or China, so please give me a break,” Tlaib said on Tuesday as she introduced her anti-Israel amendment. ““This is not about transparency, as it is claimed. It’s truly about destroying freedom of speech.”

AIPAC has since mobilized opposition, arguing Tlaib is demonizing Israel alongside America’s true adversaries like Iran, Russia, China and North Korea based on her own longstanding biasbeing the only Palestinian American ever elected to Congress. The pro-Israel group condemned the proposals as “a victory for the discriminatory boycott, divestment and sanction (BDS) campaign against the Jewish state.”

However, much like Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) efforts to derail funding to the Jewish state in September, Tlaib’s amendments are expected to fail spectacularly with unified Republican opposition expected alongside resistance from level headed Democrats.

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