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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 1114 

Denouncing the rise of Islamophobia and antisemitism across the country. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 5, 2024 

Mr. GOTTHEIMER submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 

the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 

Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within 

the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

RESOLUTION 

Denouncing the rise of Islamophobia and antisemitism across 

the country. 

Whereas, on October 14, 2023, Wadee Alfayoumi, a 6-yearold Palestinian American, was brutally stabbed and tragically succumbed to his injuries; 

Whereas there is evidence Wadee Alfayoumi’s attacker yelled 

during the brutal murder, ‘‘All Muslims must die.’’; 

Whereas Hisham Awartani of Brown University in Rhode Island, Kinnan Abdalhamid of Haverford College in Pennsylvania, and Tahseen Ali Ahmad of Trinity College in 

Connecticut, all at the time aged 20, were shot while on 

Thanksgiving break in Burlington, Vermont; 


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Whereas, at the time of the shooting, Hiram Awartani, 

Kinnan Abdalhamid, and Tahseen Ali Ahmad were 

speaking in a mix of English and Arabic and two were 

wearing Palestinian keffiyehs, all three were shot, and 

one remains paralyzed; 

Whereas Paul Kessler, aged 69, accompanied a neighbor to 

an Israel rally at an intersection in Thousand Oaks, California, in November 2023; 

Whereas, during an altercation between protesters and 

counterprotesters, Paul Kessler was hit in the head and 

fell to the ground; 

Whereas Paul Kessler later succumbed to these injuries; 

Whereas the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed 

that, in 2022, there was an increase of 794 reported hate 

crimes from the prior year; 

Whereas, in 2021, the FBI placed hate crimes at the same 

national threat priority level as preventing domestic violent extremism; 

Whereas the FBI has reported hundreds of anti-Arab and 

anti-Muslim hate crimes between 2018 and 2022; 

Whereas FBI tracking of antisemitic hate crimes increased 

36 percent in 2022; 

Whereas race, ethnicity, and religion-based hate crimes remain the most commonly reported hate crimes; 

Whereas no one should be a target of hate because of their 

race, ethnicity, or religion; 

Whereas misinformation, disinformation, and deeply offensive 

and stereotypical tropes and rhetoric are spewed on 

forms of social media, especially TikTok, which fuels sentiments of hate that result in violence against those who 


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belong or are perceived to belong to a certain ethnic or 

religious group; 

Whereas nonprofit security grants provide crucial support for 

security to nonprofit institutions, including places of worship, which includes mosques, churches, and synagogues; 

Whereas faith-based institutions are susceptible to attacks by 

violent extremists and their radical beliefs; 

Whereas children in the United States, and those across the 

globe, deserve to live in peace and be free from all forms 

of discrimination, hate crimes, and violence; and 

Whereas all children deserve to live freely without fear of discrimination and hatred on the basis of their race, sex, 

age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin, and disability: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives recog2 nizes that— 

3 (1) all have the freedom to express their race, 

4 ethnicity, and religion in whatever way they believe; 

5 (2) the rise in hate crimes, Islamophobia, and 

6 antisemitism is unacceptable and cannot be toler7 ated; 

8 (3) social media companies and executives must 

9 do more to counter and limit the propaganda and 

10 violent rhetoric expressed across their platforms; and 

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1 profit institutions have the security and resources 

2 they need. 

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