Title: Condemning all forms of anti-Semitism.
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

Summary:
This resolution condemns all forms of anti-Semitism and calls on federal law enforcement officials, working with state and local officials, to expeditiously investigate all credible reports of hate crimes, incidents, and threats against the Jewish community.
This resolution also condemns all expressions of racism and ethnic or religious intolerance.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 47 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 47

                 Condemning all forms of anti-Semitism.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 16, 2019

Mr. Wright (for himself, Mr. Meadows, Mr. Hice of Georgia, Mr. Duncan, 
    and Mr. Griffith) submitted the following resolution; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
                 Condemning all forms of anti-Semitism.

Whereas, in 2017, reported anti-Semitic incidents increased 57 percent over the 
        previous year, according to the Anti-Defamation League's 2017 Audit of 
        Anti-Semitic Incidents, which describes trends such as the 86 percent 
        increase in reported incidents of vandalism and the 41 percent increase 
        in reported incidents of harassment;
Whereas, in 2017, anti-Semitic incidents at institutions of higher education 
        nearly doubled compared to the number of those incidents in 2016, and 
        during the 2016-2017 school year there was an increase in White 
        supremacist activity on college campuses across the United States, 
        according to the Anti-Defamation League; and
Whereas the perpetrator of the shooting that killed 11 Jewish worshippers at 
        Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 27, 2018, 
        accused Jews of ``waging a propaganda war against Western civilization'' 
        and ``committing genocide'' against Whites by promoting immigration and 
        refugee resettlement, and accused the President of being ``a globalist, 
        not a nationalist'' because of the ``infestation'' of Jews: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) affirms that the United States stands united in 
        condemning anti-Semitism in any form;
            (2) supports the right of Americans to freely exercise 
        their religious beliefs and rejects all forms of terror and 
        hate;
            (3) condemns all manifestations of expressions of racism, 
        anti-Semitism, and ethnic or religious intolerance; and
            (4) calls on Federal law enforcement officials, working 
        with State and local officials--
                    (A) to expeditiously investigate all credible 
                reports of hate crimes and incidents and threats 
                against the Jewish community in the United States; and
                    (B) to hold the perpetrators of those crimes, 
                incidents, or threats accountable and bring such 
                perpetrators to justice.
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