Image taken from Wikimedia Commons On July 6th, South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster signed into law the state’s new budget, which included an anti-Semitism definition bill. In doing so, South Carolina became the first state to officially adopt a definition of anti-Semitism into law. This move follows an April 2018 vote in the South Carolina General Assembly to pass this anti-Semitism definition legislation. The measure passed the State Senate by a vote of 37-4 and the State House of Representatives by a vote of 116-2, and was accompanied at the time by Governor McMaster’s endorsement. The new law will allow South Carolina to combat instances of anti-Semitism by providing a clear standard for recognizing and classifying anti-Semitism. Thus far, at least thirty-one countries around the world have adopted a definition of anti-Semitism authored by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. South Carolina’s definition is substantially similar to that one.