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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 prac-
tices 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 Uni-
versity, 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 cam-
puses include a University of Michigan professor who re-
fused 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 Dur-
ban 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 dem-
onstrator, 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 con-
demned; 
Whereas the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, 
of which the United States is a member, adopted a 
‘‘working definition’’ of anti-Semitism as ‘‘a certain per-
ception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred to-
ward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of 
anti-Semitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish 
individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish commu-
nity institutions and religious facilities’’; and 
Whereas contemporary examples of anti-Semitism in public 
life, the media, schools, the workplace, and in the reli-
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gious sphere include denying the Jewish people their 
right to self-determination: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that the House of Representatives rejects 
anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hatred in the United States 
and around the world. 
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