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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 72 

Rejecting anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hatred in the United States and around 

the world. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 23, 2019 

Mr. ZELDIN (for himself, Mr. BUDD, Ms. STEFANIK, Mr. GAETZ, Mr. JORDAN, and Mr. HICE of Georgia) submitted the following resolution; which 

was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the 

Committee on the Judiciary, 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 

Rejecting anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hatred in the United 

States and around the world. 

Whereas, in 2018, Minister Louis Farrakhan said, ‘‘So when 

they talk about Farrakhan, call me a hater, you do what 

they do, call me an anti-Semite. Stop it, I’m anti-Termite’’; 

Whereas, in 2018, Farrakhan said, ‘‘Satanic Jews have infected the whole world with poison and deceit’’; 

Whereas, on March 11, 1984, Farrakhan said about Adolf 

Hitler of Nazi Germany who was responsible for murdering 6 million Jewish people and millions of others, 

‘‘He was a very great man’’; 


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Whereas activist Tamika Mallory called Minister Louis 

Farrakhan the ‘‘greatest of all time’’, and her fellow organizer, Linda Sarsour said, ‘‘Only Jews . . . are ones 

that condone violence against Arabs and are cool with 

mosques being attacked’’; 

Whereas throughout the years, current Members of Congress 

have met with, posed for pictures with, and have otherwise embraced Farrakhan; 

Whereas Representative Rashida Tlaib, who supports the 

Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, 

has been asked by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), 

a Jewish nongovernmental organization that fights hate 

crimes, to explain why she invited Abbas Hamideh to attend her swearing in events, who said in 2016, ‘‘Israel 

does not have a right to exist. The terrorist entity is illegal and has no basis to exist other than a delusional 

ISIS-like ideology’’; 

Whereas Abbas Hamideh also stated in 2019, ‘‘I’m willing to 

go back to my country #Palestine if the Zionist terrorists 

go back to Poland. Deal? Let’s get that ball rolling 

ASAP. Get off Twitter and let’s make that happen’’; 

Whereas Representative Tlaib, who stated on January 6, 

2019, of Americans who support Israel, ‘‘They forgot 

what country they represent’’; 

Whereas, on November 16, 2012, Representative Ilhan Omar, 

who also supports the BDS movement, tweeted, ‘‘Israel 

has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people 

and help them see the evil doings of Israel’’; 

Whereas it is the policy of the United States to oppose restrictive trade practices or boycotts fostered or imposed 


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by any foreign country against other countries friendly to 

the United States or against any United States person; 

Whereas Omar Barghouti, founder of the BDS movement, 

said, ‘‘We are witnessing the rapid demise of Zionism, 

and nothing can be done to save it, for Zionism is intent 

on killing itself. I, for one, support euthanasia,’’ and also 

stated, ‘‘Many of the methods of collective and individual 

‘punishment’ meted out to Palestinian civilians at the 

hands of young, racist, often sadistic and ever impervious 

Israeli soldiers . . . are reminiscent of common Nazi practices against the Jews’’; 

Whereas, as a result of the BDS movement, Jewish students 

on college campuses across America have been exposed to 

rampant anti-Semitism, for example, at New York University, after the student government passed a resolution 

supporting BDS, the Bronfman Center for Jewish Life 

was temporarily closed in response to threatening Twitter 

posts by a student who expressed ‘‘a desire for Zionists 

to die’’; 

Whereas other examples of anti-Semitism on college campuses include a University of Michigan professor who refused to write a letter of recommendation for a qualified 

student solely because she was seeking to study abroad 

in Israel, a Students for Justice in Palestine cofounder 

and University of California, Berkeley, professor spoke at 

a national conference and shared an anti-Semitic meme 

of an Orthodox Jewish person in his presentation, at 

Warren Wilson College, an invited speaker stated, ‘‘Jews 

are doing the same thing to the Palestinians as the Nazis 

did to the Jews’’, a Yik Yak posting at the University of 

California read, ‘‘Gas them, burn them, and dismantle 

their power structure. Humanity cannot progress with 


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the parasitic Jew’’, and more globally, University of Durban in South Africa called for the expulsion of Jewish 

students who did not support BDS at the University; 

Whereas, on August 12, 2017, White supremacist Richard 

Spencer led a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where 

hundreds of his followers chanted, ‘‘Jews will not replace 

us’’, and this extremist demonstration turned violent 

when a neo-Nazi sympathizer drove a vehicle into a 

crowd, which resulted in the death of one peaceful demonstrator, and two Virginia State police officers died in 

the line of duty that day as well; 

Whereas, on October 27, 2018, White supremacist Robert 

Bowers murdered 11 people and injured 7 at the Tree of 

Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, including 4 

police officers, and while in custody and receiving medical 

treatment, Bowers told a SWAT officer he ‘‘wanted all 

Jews to die’’; 

Whereas there has also been a significant amount of other 

anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hatred in the United States 

and around the world that must be most strongly condemned; 

Whereas the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, 

of which the United States is a member, adopted a 

‘‘working definition’’ of anti-Semitism as ‘‘a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of 

anti-Semitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish 

individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities’’; and 

Whereas contemporary examples of anti-Semitism in public 

life, the media, schools, the workplace, and in the reliVerDate Sep 11 2014 21:41 Jan 23, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\HR72.IH HR72

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gious sphere include denying the Jewish people their 

right to self-determination: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep2 resentatives that the House of Representatives rejects 

3 anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hatred in the United States 

4 and around the world. 

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