IV 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1131 
Condemning the murder of Sara Duker and renouncing Palestinian Authority 
martyr payments to terrorists. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020 
Mr. GOTTHEIMER submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on 
the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Condemning the murder of Sara Duker and renouncing 
Palestinian Authority martyr payments to terrorists. 
Whereas this resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Resolution to 
Stop Rewarding Terrorists’’; 
Whereas Sara Duker attended high school at the Frisch 
School in Paramus, New Jersey, and graduated from 
Barnard College, Columbia University, in May 1995; 
Whereas, on February 25, 1996, three United States citizens, 
Sara Duker of Teaneck, New Jersey, Matthew Eisenfeld 
of West Hartford, Connecticut, and Ira Weinstein of New 
York City, were killed in a Hamas bus bombing in Jeru-
salem; 
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Whereas Barnard College President Judith Shapiro remem-
bered Sara as ‘‘a person of extraordinary talent and 
promise’’; 
Whereas Sara traveled to Israel with Matthew, a graduate of 
Yale University and a second-year rabbinical student at 
the Jewish Theological Seminary; 
Whereas Ira Weinstein, a dual American and Israeli citizen, 
died of burns suffered from the bus bombing, leaving be-
hind a widow and three children; 
Whereas, since 1993, the terrorist group Hamas has killed 
more than 400 Israelis and at least 25 United States citi-
zens, including Sara Duker; 
Whereas the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs estimates that 
1,360 people have been killed by Palestinian violence and 
terrorism since September 2000; 
Whereas the Palestinian Authority’s practice of paying sala-
ries to terrorists serving in Israeli prisons, as well as to 
the families of deceased terrorists, is an incentive to com-
mit acts of terror; 
Whereas the Palestinian Authority rewards deadlier attacks 
of terrorism with even more money; 
Whereas, since fiscal year 2015, Congress has mandated the 
reduction of aid for the Palestinian Authority as a result 
of their payments for acts of terrorism including, in fiscal 
year 2017, a dollar-for-dollar reduction of the amount of 
money that the Palestinian Authority and Palestine Lib-
eration Organization pay to terrorists and their families 
from the Economic Support Fund aid that the United 
States provides; 
Whereas, on March 23, 2018, Congress passed the Taylor 
Force Act (Public Law 115–141), bipartisan legislation 
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which eliminates funds that directly benefit the Pales-
tinian Authority if the Palestinian Authority continues to 
make payments to terrorists; and 
Whereas martyr payments for violence and terror continue to 
undermine the prospects for peace, making it even harder 
to achieve a viable Palestinian state: Now, therefore, be 
it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) condemns the attacks on United States citi-
zens 
by 
Hamas, 
Palestinian 
Islamic 
Jihad, 
Hezbollah, and other terrorist groups and their fol-
lowers, and demands that the Palestinian Authority 
work with Israel to protect all innocent individuals 
from terrorism; 
(2) offers its condolences to the families and 
loved ones of United States and Israeli citizens who 
were killed in terrorist attacks; 
(3) calls for justice for Sara Duker and all 
other victims of terrorist attacks; 
(4) calls on the international community to con-
demn the practice of paying salaries to terrorists 
and to urge the Palestinian Authority to revoke all 
associated laws, budgetary funding, and agencies de-
voted to such payments; and 
(5) affirms its support for penalties for the fail-
ure to comply with the Taylor Force Act, as well 
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visa restrictions for terrorists and those responsible 
for martyr payments. 
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