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Whereas anti-Semitic acts committed and recorded in 2014 
around the world, including countries in the Middle East, 
Latin America, Europe, and North America, include inci-
dents of murder at Jewish sites, violent attacks and 
death threats against Jews, as well as gun violence, 
arson, graffiti, anti-Semitic cartoons, and other property 
desecration at Jewish places of worship and communal 
activity; 
Whereas a survey by the Anti-Defamation League of atti-
tudes towards Jews in more than 100 countries around 
the world, released in May 2014 found that over a quar-
ter of the people surveyed (26 percent) hold anti-Semitic 
views, a stunning indicator of the stubborn resilience of 
anti-Semitic beliefs, even in countries where no Jews re-
side; 
Whereas anti-Semitic attitudes in the Middle East and North 
Africa (74 percent) far surpass those in any other region; 
Whereas the finding that 70 percent of those around the 
world who harbor anti-Semitic attitudes have never met 
a Jew shows how deeply embedded stereotypes of Jews 
that developed over centuries are in the consciousness of 
many countries and societies; 
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 this month Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban 
erected a monument commemorating the Nazi Occupa-
tion of Hungary that white washes the Hungarian gov-
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ernment’s role in deporting over 400,000 Jews, most of 
whom died in Auschwitz; 
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 during Israel’s July 2014 Operation Protective Edge 
aiming to stem the rocket fire and terrorist infiltrations 
by Hamas, Jews and Jewish institutions and property 
have been attacked in Europe and elsewhere, including 
attempts to invade a synagogue in Paris, fire-bombings 
of synagogues in France and Germany, assaults on Jew-
ish individuals, and swastikas spray-painted in a heavily 
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Jewish area of London and also in Rome’s historic Jew-
ish 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 around the United 
States, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America, in-
cluding— 
(1) placards held at many demonstrations across the 
globe comparing Israeli leaders to Nazis, accusing Israel 
of carrying out a ‘‘Holocaust’’ against Palestinians, and 
equating the Jewish Star of David with the Nazi swas-
tika, 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 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s 
continued anti-Israel incitement, including stating that 
Israel’s defense against Hamas rocket fire is ‘‘barbarism 
that surpasses Hitler’’, sparks unwarranted anger to-
wards Jews and endangers the Turkish Jewish commu-
nity and Jews around the world; 
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, including French Presi-
dent Hollande and Prime Minister Valls, German Chan-
cellor Merkel, and the foreign ministers of France, Ger-
many, and Italy collectively, have all made clear state-
ments that such attacks on their Jewish communities 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’’ 
and, in Germany, the largest circulation paper, Bild, fea-
tured statements against anti-Semitism from politicians, 
business leaders, civic leaders, media personalities and ce-
lebrities with ‘‘Never Again Jew Hatred’’ on the front 
page; and 
Whereas Congress supports freedom of expression and the 
right to criticize any government or its policy and has 
played an essential role in shining a spotlight on the re-
surgence of anti-Semitism worldwide: Now, therefore, be 
it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) unequivocally condemns all forms of anti- 
Semitism and rejects attempts to justify anti-Jewish 
hatred or violent attacks as an acceptable expression 
of disapproval or frustration over political events in 
the Middle East or elsewhere; 
(2) decries and condemns the comparison of 
Israel to Nazis perpetrating a Holocaust or genocide 
as an insult to the memory of those who perished in 
the Holocaust and an affront to those who survived 
and their children and grandchildren, the righteous 
gentiles who saved Jewish lives at peril to their own 
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lives and to those who bravely fought to defeat the 
Nazis; 
(3) applauds those foreign leaders, especially in 
France, Italy, and Germany, who have condemned 
anti-Semitic acts and calls on those who have yet to 
take firm action against anti-Semitism in their coun-
tries, to do so; 
(4) reaffirms its support for the mandate of the 
United States Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat 
Anti-Semitism; 
(5) pledges to support and expand Holocaust 
educational programs at home and abroad to in-
crease awareness, counter prejudice, and enhance ef-
forts to teach the universal lessons of the Holocaust; 
and 
(6) urges the Secretary of State to— 
(A) maintain the fight against anti-Semi-
tism as a United States foreign policy priority 
and to convey United States concern in bilateral 
meetings; 
(B) ensure that the instruments of United 
States public diplomacy including President 
Barack Obama’s emissary to the Organization 
of the Islamic Conference pursue ways to ad-
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dress the issue of anti-Semitism where data 
show it is needed most; 
(C) ensure high-level United States partici-
pation in the 2014 Organization for Security 
and Cooperation in Europe high level event 
marking the 10th anniversary of the 2004 
OSCE Berlin Declaration against anti-Semi-
tism; 
(D) urge governments to ensure that ade-
quate laws are in place to punish anti-Semitic 
violence and hate crimes as well as establish 
mechanisms to monitor, investigate and punish 
perpetrators; 
(E) continue robust United States report-
ing on anti-Semitism as a human rights and re-
ligious freedom issue by the Department of 
State and the Special Envoy to Combat and 
Monitor Anti-Semitism; 
(F) provide necessary training and instruc-
tion for personnel posted in United States em-
bassies and missions to analyze and report on 
anti-Semitic incidents as well as the response of 
governments to those incidents and to hate 
crimes in general; 
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(G) ensure that United States efforts to 
train law enforcement personnel and prosecu-
tors abroad incorporate tools to address anti- 
Semitism and other bias motivated incidents; 
(H) deepen engagement with the Organiza-
tion for Security and Cooperation in Europe 
and support its specialized efforts to monitor 
and address anti-Semitism, including through 
support for its law enforcement and civil society 
training programs; and 
(I) redouble his commitment to oppose all 
efforts to prevent any individual from freely ex-
ercising their religion without fear of prosecu-
tion or violence. 
Æ 
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