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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. RES. 252 

Unequivocally condemning the recent rise in antisemitic violence and harassment targeting Jewish Americans, and standing in solidarity with those 

affected by antisemitism, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MAY 27, 2021 

Ms. ROSEN (for herself, Mr. LANKFORD, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. BLUNT, Ms. 

CANTWELL, Mr. CRAPO, Mr. CARPER, Mr. MORAN, Mr. KELLY, Mr. CORNYN, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. DAINES, Ms. HASSAN, Mr. RUBIO, Mr. 

PETERS, Mr. PORTMAN, Mr. SANDERS, Mr. TILLIS, Mr. CARDIN, Ms. 

COLLINS, Mr. BENNET, Mr. CASSIDY, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. CRAMER, Ms. 

SINEMA, Mrs. HYDE-SMITH, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. RISCH, Mr. MARKEY, 

Mr. HOEVEN, Ms. CORTEZ MASTO, Mr. BRAUN, Mr. KING, Mr. BOOZMAN, Mr. KAINE, Mr. WICKER, Mr. SCHUMER, Ms. MURKOWSKI, Mr. 

PADILLA, Mr. THUNE, Mrs. GILLIBRAND, Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. REED, 

Mr. BARRASSO, Mr. BOOKER, Mrs. FISCHER, Mr. COONS, Mr. KENNEDY, 

Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. SULLIVAN, Mr. CASEY, Ms. ERNST, Mr. WYDEN, 

Mr. ROUNDS, Mr. HICKENLOOPER, Mr. INHOFE, Mr. JOHNSON, Mr. 

WHITEHOUSE, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. ROMNEY, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. 

YOUNG, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mr. SHELBY, Mr. WARNER, Mr. TOOMEY, Ms. 

SMITH, Mrs. CAPITO, Mr. GRASSLEY, Mr. WARNOCK, Mr. BURR, Mr. 

OSSOFF, Mr. GRAHAM, and Mr. BROWN) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

JUNE 14, 2021 

Committee discharged; considered and agreed to 

RESOLUTION 

Unequivocally condemning the recent rise in antisemitic violence and harassment targeting Jewish Americans, and 


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standing in solidarity with those affected by antisemitism, and for other purposes. 

Whereas antisemitism remains a serious and growing danger 

for Jews in the United States and around the world; 

Whereas, in May 2021, antisemitic incidents and rhetoric 

have surged in the United States and around the world 

as hostilities between Hamas and Israel escalated; 

Whereas, since the beginning of 2021, there has been an increase in acts of antisemitism, including— 

(1) individuals in London calling for Jewish ‘‘daughters to be raped’’; 

(2) a German synagogue being pelted with rocks; 

(3) an attack on Jewish diners in Los Angeles, California; 

(4) fireworks hurled at a crowd in New York City, 

New York; 

(5) synagogues in Tucson, Arizona, and Skokie, Illinois, being vandalized; 

(6) Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood 

Qureshi’s claim in an interview that Israel ‘‘controls the 

media’’ and has ‘‘deep pockets,’’ perpetuating an antisemitic conspiracy theory; and 

(7) Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s invocation of the blood libel myth, which has historically 

been used to justify violence against Jews; 

Whereas such antisemitic incidents are part of a broader increase in the number and intensity of antisemitic incidents in the United States and around the world, as evidenced by— 

(1) studies by the Kantor Center for the Study of 

Contemporary European Jewry, finding that violent 

antisemitic attacks worldwide rose 18 percent in 2019 


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and shifted online in 2020 during the COVID–19 pandemic, which resulted in antisemitic conspiracy theories 

related to the pandemic proliferating; and 

(2) hate crime statistics collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, demonstrating— 

(A) a 14-percent increase in antisemitic hate 

crimes in the United States in 2019; and 

(B) that Jewish Americans were the target of 

60.2 percent of all religiously motivated hate crimes 

in 2019, despite accounting for 2 percent of the population of the United States; 

Whereas Holocaust denial and distortion, including intentional efforts to excuse or minimize the impact of the 

Holocaust, dishonors those who were persecuted and 

murdered and reinforces the need for advancing accurate 

Holocaust education globally; 

Whereas, over the course of the past decade, Holocaust distortion has grown in intensity; 

Whereas protecting the history of the Holocaust and recognizing and confronting Holocaust denial and distortion is 

critical to preventing antisemitism; 

Whereas Jewish houses of worship are increasingly targets of 

violent attacks in the United States, as evidenced by the 

deadly assaults on synagogues in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 2018 and Poway, California, in 2019; 

Whereas, in October 2020, the Department of Homeland Security warned that ‘‘racially and ethnically motivated violent extremists—specifically white supremacist extremists—will remain the most persistent and lethal threat in 

the [United States] Homeland’’; 


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Whereas the Nonprofit Security Grant Program of the Department of Homeland Security provides critical funding 

to support physical security enhancements to Jewish organizations and institutions, including synagogues, that 

are at high risk of a terrorist attack or targeted violence; 

Whereas the United States has played a crucial leadership 

role in combating antisemitism internationally, including 

by working to promote Holocaust education, improve the 

safety and security of at-risk Jewish communities, combat online radicalization, ensure foreign public officials 

and faith leaders condemn antisemitic discourse, and 

strengthen foreign judicial systems in their prosecution of 

antisemitic incidents; 

Whereas section 59 of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2731) establishes the Office 

to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism of the Department 

of State, which is headed by an individual who has the 

rank of ambassador and reports directly to the Secretary 

of State, to develop and implement policies and projects 

to combat global antisemitism by working closely with 

foreign governments, intergovernmental organizations, 

and civil society; and 

Whereas the Never Again Education Act (36 U.S.C. 2301 

note; Public Law 116–141), which was signed into law on 

May 29, 2020, expands United States Holocaust Memorial Museum education programming, requires the museum to develop and nationally disseminate accurate, relevant, and accessible resources to improve awareness and 

understanding of the Holocaust, and authorizes various 

Holocaust education program activities to engage prospective and current teachers and educational leaders: 

Now, therefore, be it 


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1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) unequivocally condemns the recent rise in 

3 antisemitic violence and harassment targeting Jew4 ish Americans, and stands in solidarity with those 

5 affected by antisemitism; 

6 (2) recommits to combating antisemitism in all 

7 forms; 

8 (3) calls on elected officials, faith leaders, and 

9 civil society leaders to denounce and combat all 

10 manifestations of antisemitism; 

11 (4) urges the President to— 

12 (A) continue the leadership role of the 

13 United States in combating antisemitism inter14 nationally, including by nominating a qualified 

15 Ambassador to Monitor and Combat Anti16 semitism and engaging intergovernmental orga17 nizations to ensure that the anti-discrimination 

18 efforts of the organizations include combating 

19 antisemitism; 

20 (B) advance accurate Holocaust education 

21 and counter Holocaust denial and distortion, in22 cluding by fully implementing the Never Again 

23 Education Act (36 U.S.C. 2301 note; Public 

24 Law 116–141); 


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1 (C) ensure the physical security of Jewish 

2 institutions and organizations, including by re3 questing sufficient resources for the Nonprofit 

4 Security Grant Program of the Department of 

5 Homeland Security to keep at-risk houses of 

6 worship, schools, and community centers safe 

7 from terrorist attacks and other forms of 

8 antisemitic violence; and 

9 (D) produce an analysis that accounts for 

10 the level and scope of the threat that anti11 semitism poses to the people of the United 

12 States; and 

13 (5) urges Federal, State, local, and Tribal law 

14 enforcement agencies to fully participate in the data 

15 collection process of the Federal Bureau of Inves16 tigation in order to improve antisemitic hate crime 

17 data collection. 

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