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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. RES. 232 

Expressing the sense of the Senate that acts of violence against Jewish 

people in the United States and around the world and the poisonous 

rhetoric from politicians and others promoted by the media that has 

helped inspire such violence is condemnable and has no place in society. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MAY 25, 2021 

Mr. HAWLEY (for himself, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. SCOTT of Florida, Mr. MARSHALL, Mr. CRUZ, Ms. ERNST, Mr. BRAUN, Mr. DAINES, Mr. TILLIS, 

Mr. CRAMER, Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. CRAPO, Mr. RUBIO, Mr. CASSIDY, 

and Mr. HAGERTY) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

RESOLUTION 

Expressing the sense of the Senate that acts of violence 

against Jewish people in the United States and around 

the world and the poisonous rhetoric from politicians 

and others promoted by the media that has helped inspire such violence is condemnable and has no place 

in society. 

Whereas Jews across the United States have been threatened, 

cursed at, spit on, burned, and physically attacked in at 

least 193 antisemitic acts of violence during the first 

week of the 2021 conflict between Israel and Palestinians; 


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Whereas pro-Palestinian protestors threatened, shoved, and 

threw fireworks at bystanders in the Diamond District of 

Midtown Manhattan, an area with many Jewish-owned 

businesses; 

Whereas pro-Palestinian protestors punched, threw objects, 

and directed antisemitic slurs at a group of Jewish men 

eating at a restaurant in Los Angeles; 

Whereas convoys of trucks bearing Palestinian flags drove 

through London shouting through loudspeakers: ‘‘Fll 

the Jews’’, ‘‘Fll their mothers’’, ‘‘Fll their daughters’’, and ‘‘Rape their daughters’’; 

Whereas an elderly Jewish man was beaten with sticks by a 

mob at a pro-Palestinian protest in Toronto; 

Whereas a Member of Congress called Israeli Prime Minister 

Benjamin Netanyahu an ‘‘ethno-nationalist’’ on the floor 

of the House of Representatives and in a tweet accused 

the Israeli military of committing war crimes; 

Whereas, after the announcement of a ceasefire in Israel, a 

Member of Congress tweeted, ‘‘The Israeli military’s occupation continues. The blockade continues. The ethnic 

cleansing continues.’’; 

Whereas a Member of Congress described Israel in a tweet 

as an ‘‘apartheid state’’; and 

Whereas a Member of Congress tweeted that the Israeli military response to Palestinian terrorist attacks was killing 

‘‘babies, children and their parents’’ and that Palestinians are ‘‘being massacred’’: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) condemns hatred and violence against Jews; 


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1 (2) denounces the poisonous anti-Israel rhetoric 

2 of elected officials that has inflamed hatred and in3 spired escalating violence against Jews; 

4 (3) rejects the biased, incomplete, and inac5 curate information promulgated by the news media 

6 in the United States about Israel and the Govern7 ment of Israel’s efforts to protect its citizens from 

8 terrorism; 

9 (4) celebrates the innumerable contributions of 

10 American Jews to our Nation, culture, values, and 

11 way of life; and 

12 (5) reaffirms its intent to ensure that Jews in 

13 the United States— 

14 (A) are treated with dignity and respect; 

15 and 

16 (B) receive the full protection of the law 

17 owed to them as citizens of the United States. 

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