IV 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 782 
Encouraging public schools to design and teach a curriculum about the 
history of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, and the vital and historic 
importance of the Jewish State of Israel. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 9, 2020 
Mr. BUDD (for himself, Mr. ZELDIN, and Mr. KUSTOFF of Tennessee) sub-
mitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 
the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 
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 
Encouraging public schools to design and teach a curriculum 
about the history of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, 
and the vital and historic importance of the Jewish State 
of Israel. 
Whereas, on January 1, 2020, in the Williamsburg neighbor-
hood of Brooklyn, New York, two women punched a Jew-
ish man in the throat and taunted him with anti-Semitic 
threats; 
Whereas, on December 28, 2019, in Monsey, New York, a 
man wielding a large knife entered a Rabbi’s home and 
stabbed five people during a Hanukkah celebration; 
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Whereas, on December 26, 2019, in Brooklyn, New York, a 
woman yelled anti-Semitic slurs at a Jewish woman and 
her son and physically assaulted the mother; 
Whereas, on December 24, 2019, in Asheville, North Caro-
lina, vandals painted an 8 foot swastika onto a mural on 
the building of Static Age Records; 
Whereas, on December 24, 2019, in the Crown Heights 
neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, an Orthodox man 
was approached by a group of individuals who punched 
him in the back of the head and fled; 
Whereas, on December 10, 2019, in Jersey City, New Jersey, 
two attackers targeted a Kosher supermarket and killed 
three civilians and one police officer; 
Whereas, on November 19, 2019, a Syracuse University pro-
fessor received an anti-Semitic email with the subject line 
‘‘JEW’’ in which she was told to ‘‘get in the oven where 
you belong’’; 
Whereas, on Saturday, April 27, 2019, a gunman named 
John Earnest opened fire inside the Chabad Congrega-
tion in Poway, California on the last day of Passover 
leaving one dead and three injured; 
Whereas, on October 27, 2018, White supremacist Robert 
Gregory Bowers, 46, conducted a deadly shooting spree 
at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl-
vania, killing 11 and wounding seven more, Bowers ap-
pears to have been motivated by anti-Semitic convictions 
and while in custody and receiving medical treatment, 
Bowers told a SWAT officer he ‘‘wanted all Jews to die’’; 
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 
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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, as a result of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanc-
tions Movement, Jewish students on college campuses 
across America have been exposed to rampant anti-Semi-
tism; 
Whereas learning how and why the Holocaust happened in 
schools would provide context for students to learn about 
the history of anti-Semitism; 
Whereas since its creation in 1948, Israel has served as a ref-
uge for Jews around the world to escape persecution; and 
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 strongly condemned: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That it is the sense that the House of Rep-
resentatives— 
(1) condemns the rise of anti-Semitic attacks 
against Jews in the United States; 
(2) calls on Federal law enforcement officials, 
working with State and local officials, to hold the 
perpetrators of anti-Semitic attacks accountable and 
bring such perpetrators to justice; and 
(3) encourages public schools throughout the 
country to design and teach a curriculum about the 
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history of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, and the 
historic importance of the creation of the Jewish 
State of Israel in 1948 that served as a refuge for 
Jews all over the world to escape persecution fol-
lowing the Holocaust. 
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