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stubborn resilience of anti-Semitic beliefs, even in coun-
tries where few Jews reside; 
Whereas the Anti-Defamation League survey also found that 
a majority of people surveyed overall have either not 
heard of the Holocaust or do not believe it happened as 
has been documented by factual accounts and recorded 
by history; 
Whereas President Barack Obama said in his remarks at the 
USC Shoah Foundation Dinner on May 7, 2014, ‘‘. . . 
if the memories of the Shoah survivors teach us anything, 
it is that silence is evil’s greatest co-conspirator. And it’s 
up to us—each of us, every one of us—to forcefully con-
demn any denial of the Holocaust. It’s up to us to com-
bat not only anti-Semitism, but racism and bigotry and 
intolerance in all their forms, here and around the world. 
It’s up to us to speak out against rhetoric that threatens 
the existence of a Jewish homeland and to sustain Amer-
ica’s unshakeable commitment to Israel’s security’’; 
Whereas in 2004, Congress passed the Global Anti-Semitism 
Review Act, which established an Office to Monitor and 
Combat Anti-Semitism, headed by a Special Envoy to 
Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism; 
Whereas the United States Government has consistently sup-
ported efforts to address the rise in anti-Semitism 
through its bilateral relationships and through engage-
ment in international organizations such as the United 
Nations (UN), the Organization for Security and Co-
operation in Europe (OSCE), and the Organization of 
American States (OAS); 
Whereas in recent decades there has been a clear and trou-
bling pattern of increased violence against Jewish persons
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and their property, purportedly in connection with in-
creased opposition to policies enacted by the Government 
of Israel; 
Whereas during Israel’s 2014 Operation Protective Edge 
aiming to stem the rocket fire and terrorist infiltrations 
by Hamas, Jews and Jewish institutions and property 
were attacked in Europe and elsewhere, including at-
tempts to invade a synagogue in Paris, fire-bombings of 
synagogues in France and Germany, assaults on Jewish 
individuals, and swastikas spray-painted in a heavily Jew-
ish area of London and also in Rome’s historic Jewish 
quarter; 
Whereas anti-Semitic imagery and comparisons of Jews and 
Israel to Nazis have been on display at demonstrations 
against Israel’s actions in Gaza throughout the United 
States, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America, in-
cluding— 
(1) placards comparing Israeli leaders to Nazis, ac-
cusing Israel of carrying out a ‘‘Holocaust’’ against Pal-
estinians, and equating the Jewish Star of David with 
the Nazi swastika, and 
(2) demonstrations that have included chants of 
‘‘Death to Jews’’, ‘‘Death to Israel’’, or expressions of 
support for suicide terrorism against Israeli or Jewish ci-
vilians; 
Whereas the Governments in France, Germany, and Italy, 
the three countries where the majority of incidents have 
occurred, have strongly condemned anti-Semitism as un-
acceptable in European society and have all made clear 
statements that such attacks on their Jewish commu-
nities are intolerable, and they have matched those words 
with strong law enforcement;
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Whereas some civil society leaders have set strong examples, 
including the condemnation by the Union of Mosques of 
France, on behalf of their 500 mosques, called the at-
tacks ‘‘morally unjust and unacceptable’’, and stated, 
‘‘nothing can justify any act that could harm our Jewish 
compatriots, their institutions or their places of worship’’; 
Whereas the largest newspaper in circulation in Germany, 
Bild, featured statements against anti-Semitism from 
politicians, business leaders, civic leaders, media person-
alities and celebrities with ‘‘Never Again Jew Hatred’’ on 
the front page; and 
Whereas Congress has played an essential role in illustrating 
and counteracting the resurgence of anti-Semitism world-
wide: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) unequivocally condemns all forms of anti-Semi-
tism and rejects attempts to justify anti-Jewish hatred 
or violent attacks as an acceptable expression of dis-
approval or frustration over political events in the Mid-
dle East or elsewhere; 
(2) decries and condemns the comparison of Israel 
to Nazis as an insult to the memory of those who per-
ished in the Holocaust and an affront to those who sur-
vived and their children and grandchildren, the righteous 
gentiles who saved Jewish lives at peril to their own lives 
and to those who bravely fought to defeat the Nazis; 
(3) applauds those foreign leaders who have con-
demned anti-Semitic acts and calls on those who have
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yet to take firm action against anti-Semitism in their 
countries, to do so; 
(4) reaffirms its support for the mandate of the 
United States Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat 
Anti-Semitism as part of the broader policy priority of 
fostering international religious freedom; 
(5) supports expanded Holocaust educational pro-
grams that increase awareness, counter prejudice, and 
enhance efforts to teach the universal lessons of the Hol-
ocaust; and 
(6) urges the Secretary of State to— 
(A) maintain combating anti-Semitism as a 
United States foreign policy priority; 
(B) ensure that the instruments of United 
States public diplomacy, including the United 
States Representative to the Organization of Is-
lamic Conference, are utilized to effectively combat 
anti-Semitism; 
(C) ensure high-level United States participa-
tion in the 2014 Organization for Security and Co-
operation in Europe (OSCE) high level event mark-
ing the 10th anniversary of the 2004 OSCE Berlin 
Declaration against anti-Semitism;
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(D) urge governments to ensure that adequate 
laws are in place to punish anti-Semitic violence 
against persons and property; 
(E) continue robust United States reporting on 
anti-Semitism by the Department of State and the 
Special Envoy to Combat and Monitor Anti-Semi-
tism; 
(F) provide necessary training and instruction 
for personnel posted in United States embassies and 
missions to analyze and report on anti-Semitic vio-
lence against persons and property as well as the 
response of governments to those incidents; 
(G) ensure that United States Government ef-
forts to train law enforcement personnel and pros-
ecutors abroad incorporate tools to address anti-Se-
mitic violence against persons and property; and 
(H) strongly support the Organization for Se-
curity and Cooperation in Europe’s specialized ef-
forts to monitor and address anti-Semitism, includ-
ing through support for its law enforcement and 
civil society training programs. 
Attest: 
Clerk.