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permarket following the deadly terrorist attack on the 
Paris offices of newspaper Charlie Hebdo; 
Whereas, in a 2014 Anti-Defamation League survey of atti-
tudes towards Jews in more than 100 countries around 
the world— 
(1) 24 percent of those surveyed in Western Europe 
expressed anti-Semitic views; 
(2) 34 percent of those surveyed in Eastern Europe 
expressed anti-Semitic views; and 
(3) a majority of those surveyed worldwide either 
had not heard of the Holocaust or do not believe that the 
factual accounts and recorded history of the Holocaust 
are accurate; 
Whereas the European Union Agency for Fundamental 
Rights issued a report in 2013 on anti-Semitism in the 
8 countries in which 90 percent of Europe’s Jews reside, 
namely France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Bel-
gium, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, in which 76 
percent of respondents believed that anti-Semitism had 
worsened where they lived during the previous 5-year pe-
riod; 
Whereas France, which is home to Europe’s largest Jewish 
population, reported that— 
(1) twice as many French Jews immigrated to Israel 
during 2014 than had immigrated during 2013; and 
(2) for the first time ever, more Jews moved to 
Israel from France than from any other country in the 
world; 
Whereas anti-Semitic acts committed and recorded in Euro-
pean countries in 2014 included— 
(1) murders and death threats against Jews; and 
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(2) arson, graffiti, and property desecration at Jew-
ish sites, including Jewish cemeteries, places of worship, 
schools, and community centers; 
Whereas such acts led many Jewish individuals to conceal 
their religious affiliation; 
Whereas on May 24, 2014, a gunman killed 4 people when 
he opened fire at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in 
Brussels, Belgium; 
Whereas on July 29, 2014, Molotov cocktails were thrown at 
the synagogue in Wuppertal, Germany, which had been 
burned to the ground by the Nazis during the 1938 
Kristallnacht, and was rebuilt as recently as 2002; 
Whereas the foreign ministers of France, Germany, and Italy 
issued a joint statement in July 2014, proclaiming: 
‘‘Anti-Semitic rhetoric and hostility against Jews, attacks 
on people of Jewish belief and synagogues have no place 
in our societies’’; 
Whereas in September 2014, British Prime Minister David 
Cameron declared: ‘‘There can never be any excuse for 
anti-Semitism, and no disagreements on politics or policy 
should ever be allowed to justify racism, prejudice or ex-
tremism in any form’’; 
Whereas on January 13, 2015, French Prime Minister 
Manuel Valls spoke before the French National Assembly 
and declared that anti-Semitism must be dealt with 
‘‘powerfully’’ and that ‘‘there has been an intolerable rise 
in acts of anti-Semitism in France [that] have not 
aroused the outrage expected by our Jewish com-
patriots’’; 
Whereas at the Tenth Anniversary of the Organization for 
Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Berlin 
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Conference 
on 
Anti-Semitism 
in 
November 
2014, 
Samantha Power, the United States Ambassador to the 
United Nations, noted, ‘‘Rising anti-Semitism is rarely 
the lone or the last manifestation of intolerance in soci-
ety. . . . When the human rights and fundamental free-
doms of Jews are repressed, the rights and freedoms of 
other minorities and other sectors are often not far be-
hind’’; 
Whereas the OSCE’s December 2014 Basel Declaration on 
Enhancing Efforts to Combat Anti-Semitism condemned 
‘‘manifestations of anti-Semitism, intolerance and dis-
crimination against Jews’’, and protected the commit-
ment to ‘‘declare unambiguously that international devel-
opments or political issues, including those with regard to 
the situation in the Middle East, never justify anti-Semi-
tism’’; 
Whereas the Government of the United States has consist-
ently supported efforts to address the rise of anti-Semi-
tism through diplomatic efforts including engagement in 
international organizations such as the OSCE; 
Whereas the Office to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism in 
the Department of State, which is headed by the Special 
Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, has con-
sistently supported European efforts to combat Anti- 
Semitism; and 
Whereas at the urging of the United States and 36 other 
countries, including all European Union States, the 
United Nations General Assembly convened the first ever 
meeting on anti-Semitism on January 22, 2015, to con-
sider ways to confront the long-standing and growing 
problem of anti-Semitism worldwide: Now, therefore, be 
it 
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Resolved, That the House of Representatives urges 
the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and other 
relevant United States Government agencies and officials 
to work closely with the European Union and European 
governments to encourage further efforts to address anti- 
Semitism by— 
(1) undertaking prompt, impartial, and effective 
investigations of any acts of violence motivated by 
anti-Semitism and fully prosecuting those respon-
sible for such violence within the extent of the law; 
(2) encouraging European countries and the 
European Union to designate senior-level special en-
voys to monitor, prevent, and combat anti-Semitism 
regionally and domestically; 
(3) cooperating with European counterparts on 
developing programs to counter violent extremists 
engaged in anti-Semitic activity; 
(4) encouraging the European Union and its 
Member States to integrate measures to combat 
anti-Semitism into relevant national strategies and 
action plans by including measures to protect human 
rights, religious tolerance, and equality, and to en-
sure hate crime and violence prevention; 
(5) increasing cooperation on training initiatives 
related to hate crimes, particularly crimes motivated 
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by anti-Semitism, for law enforcement personnel, 
and improving monitoring and reporting efforts; 
(6) empowering civil society, including diverse 
religious and ethnic groups, civil and human rights 
organizations, and the business community, to fight 
anti-Semitism and discrimination; 
(7) convening regular consultations with Jewish 
community organizations and non-Jewish civil and 
human rights organizations to demonstrate visible 
support, listen to concerns, and solicit recommenda-
tions on improving security and supporting victims; 
and 
(8) reaffirming and implementing the rec-
ommendations in the OSCE’s December 2014 Basel 
Declaration on Enhancing Efforts to Combat Anti- 
Semitism. 
Æ 
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