IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1207 
Censuring Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota for her recent hateful 
comments and history of antisemitism. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 7, 2024 
Mr. BACON (for himself, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. VAN ORDEN, 
and Ms. TENNEY) submitted the following resolution; which was referred 
to the Committee on Ethics 
RESOLUTION 
Censuring Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota for her 
recent hateful comments and history of antisemitism. 
Whereas, on April 26, 2024, while visiting Columbia Univer-
sity amidst growing encampments protesting Israel’s ac-
tions in Gaza, Representative Ilhan Omar referred to 
Jewish students as ‘‘pro-genocide’’; 
Whereas Representative Omar has a long and demonstrated 
history of hateful rhetoric that plays into the worst 
antisemitic tropes; 
Whereas Representative Omar’s slanderous comments against 
Jewish students could inflame violence against the Jewish 
community; 
Whereas the American Jewish Committee’s 2023 State of 
Antisemitism in America report found that 63 percent of 
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American Jews feel the status of Jews is less secure than 
1 year ago, which is an increase of more than 20 percent 
in just 1 year; 
Whereas that same report indicated that 78 percent of Amer-
ican Jews who heard about the Hamas terrorist attacks 
in Israel say the attacks made them feel less safe as a 
Jewish person in the United States; 
Whereas the American Jewish Committee report also indi-
cated that 85 percent of American Jews and 84 percent 
of the general public believe the statement ‘‘Israel has no 
right to exist’’, the foundational core of anti-Zionism, is 
antisemitic; 
Whereas antisemitism has reached unprecedented levels in 
the United States, demonstrated by the 2023 Anti-Defa-
mation League (ADL) Audit of Antisemitic Incidents 
with a reported 8,873 antisemitic incidents across the 
country, representing a 140-percent increase from the 
year before and an average of 1 incident per hour; 
Whereas this is the highest number of incidents on record 
since the Anti-Defamation League began tracking 
antisemitic incidents in 1979, and ADL has tracked more 
incidents in 2023 than in the previous 3 years combined; 
Whereas Representative Omar has a history of further fuel-
ing the flames of antisemitic hatred by her unrelenting 
attacks against the State of Israel, the only democracy in 
the Middle East; 
Whereas, in 2021, Representative Omar compared Israel and 
the United States not only to Hamas, but also to the 
Taliban, when she tweeted ‘‘we have seen unthinkable 
atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghan-
istan, and the Taliban’’; 
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Whereas the State of Israel is a key ally and a strategic part-
ner of the United States; 
Whereas Hamas was designated by the Department of State 
as a foreign terrorist organization on October 8, 1997; 
Whereas Hamas is actively engaged in committing war 
crimes, including using civilians as human shields, which 
is banned under customary international humanitarian 
law; 
Whereas Hamas and its Palestinian terrorist allies in Gaza 
are funded by Iran; 
Whereas the cowardly terrorist attack on October 7, 2023, by 
Hamas on innocent Israeli citizens, as well as citizens of 
the United States and other countries, was the deadliest 
murder of the Jewish people since 1945; 
Whereas Representative Omar has previously argued that 
Israel’s military response to Hamas strikes was ‘‘an act 
of terrorism’’ rather than an act of self-defense; 
Whereas Representative Omar accused the United States of 
backing crimes against humanity; 
Whereas, in 2012, Representative Omar tweeted, ‘‘Israel has 
hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and 
help them see the evil doings of Israel.’’; 
Whereas, in 2018, Representative Omar posted, ‘‘Drawing at-
tention to the apartheid Israeli regime is far from hating 
Jews.’’; 
Whereas, in 2019, Representative Omar resorted to horrible 
stereotypes against Jewish people when she previously 
suggested that the American Israel Public Affairs Com-
mittee (AIPAC) and the Jewish people were trying to buy 
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political influence by saying ‘‘It’s all about the Ben-
jamins, baby.’’; 
Whereas Representative Omar stated during a town hall in 
2019, ‘‘I want to talk about the political influence in this 
country that says it is okay to push for the allegiance to 
a foreign country.’’; 
Whereas, in 2019, Congressional Democratic Leadership 
issued a joint statement in response to Representative 
Omar, saying, ‘‘Anti-Semitism must be called out, con-
fronted, and condemned whenever it is encountered, with-
out exception.’’; 
Whereas, on February 2, 2023, Representative Omar was re-
moved from the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 
House of Representatives for her numerous antisemitic 
and other problematic statements regarding the United 
States democratic ally Israel; and 
Whereas Representative Omar has repeatedly and frequently 
referred to the United States close partner Israel, the 
only democracy in the Middle East, as an ‘‘apartheid’’ 
State and accused it of committing ‘‘genocide’’: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved, That Representative Ilhan Omar of Min-
nesota is censured for her comments targeting Jewish stu-
dents in the United States. 
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