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Congress members join global task force to combat online anti-Semitism

By Marcy Oster

(JTA) — Several U.S. Congress members are part of a new task force of international lawmakers trying to combat online anti-Semitism.

Members of the national legislatures of Australia, Canada, Israel, the United Kingdom and the United States are part of the panel, according to an announcement from Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., a members of the Inter-Parliamentary Task Force to Combat Online Anti-Semitism.

The lawmakers decided to ban together since “social media posts do not stop at international borders,” the stat...