IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1114 
Denouncing the rise of Islamophobia and antisemitism across the country. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 5, 2024 
Mr. GOTTHEIMER submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on En-
ergy and Commerce, 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 
Denouncing the rise of Islamophobia and antisemitism across 
the country. 
Whereas, on October 14, 2023, Wadee Alfayoumi, a 6-year- 
old Palestinian American, was brutally stabbed and trag-
ically succumbed to his injuries; 
Whereas there is evidence Wadee Alfayoumi’s attacker yelled 
during the brutal murder, ‘‘All Muslims must die.’’; 
Whereas Hisham Awartani of Brown University in Rhode Is-
land, Kinnan Abdalhamid of Haverford College in Penn-
sylvania, and Tahseen Ali Ahmad of Trinity College in 
Connecticut, all at the time aged 20, were shot while on 
Thanksgiving break in Burlington, Vermont; 
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Whereas, at the time of the shooting, Hiram Awartani, 
Kinnan Abdalhamid, and Tahseen Ali Ahmad were 
speaking in a mix of English and Arabic and two were 
wearing Palestinian keffiyehs, all three were shot, and 
one remains paralyzed; 
Whereas Paul Kessler, aged 69, accompanied a neighbor to 
an Israel rally at an intersection in Thousand Oaks, Cali-
fornia, in November 2023; 
Whereas, during an altercation between protesters and 
counterprotesters, Paul Kessler was hit in the head and 
fell to the ground; 
Whereas Paul Kessler later succumbed to these injuries; 
Whereas the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed 
that, in 2022, there was an increase of 794 reported hate 
crimes from the prior year; 
Whereas, in 2021, the FBI placed hate crimes at the same 
national threat priority level as preventing domestic vio-
lent extremism; 
Whereas the FBI has reported hundreds of anti-Arab and 
anti-Muslim hate crimes between 2018 and 2022; 
Whereas FBI tracking of antisemitic hate crimes increased 
36 percent in 2022; 
Whereas race, ethnicity, and religion-based hate crimes re-
main the most commonly reported hate crimes; 
Whereas no one should be a target of hate because of their 
race, ethnicity, or religion; 
Whereas misinformation, disinformation, and deeply offensive 
and stereotypical tropes and rhetoric are spewed on 
forms of social media, especially TikTok, which fuels sen-
timents of hate that result in violence against those who 
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belong or are perceived to belong to a certain ethnic or 
religious group; 
Whereas nonprofit security grants provide crucial support for 
security to nonprofit institutions, including places of wor-
ship, which includes mosques, churches, and synagogues; 
Whereas faith-based institutions are susceptible to attacks by 
violent extremists and their radical beliefs; 
Whereas children in the United States, and those across the 
globe, deserve to live in peace and be free from all forms 
of discrimination, hate crimes, and violence; and 
Whereas all children deserve to live freely without fear of dis-
crimination and hatred on the basis of their race, sex, 
age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, na-
tional origin, and disability: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives recog-
nizes that— 
(1) all have the freedom to express their race, 
ethnicity, and religion in whatever way they believe; 
(2) the rise in hate crimes, Islamophobia, and 
antisemitism is unacceptable and cannot be toler-
ated; 
(3) social media companies and executives must 
do more to counter and limit the propaganda and 
violent rhetoric expressed across their platforms; and 
(4) nonprofit security grants are crucial to pro-
tect and ensure houses of worship and other non-
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