Title: Rejecting anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hatred in the United States and around the world.
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

Summary:
This resolution rejects anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hatred in the United States and around the world.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 72 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 72

Rejecting anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hatred in the United States and 
                           around the world.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 23, 2019

Mr. Zeldin (for himself, Mr. Budd, Ms. Stefanik, Mr. Gaetz, Mr. Jordan, 
and Mr. Hice of Georgia) 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 jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Rejecting anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hatred in the United States and 
                           around the world.

Whereas, in 2018, Minister Louis Farrakhan said, ``So when they talk about 
        Farrakhan, call me a hater, you do what they do, call me an anti-Semite. 
        Stop it, I'm anti-Termite'';
Whereas, in 2018, Farrakhan said, ``Satanic Jews have infected the whole world 
        with poison and deceit'';
Whereas, on March 11, 1984, Farrakhan said about Adolf Hitler of Nazi Germany 
        who was responsible for murdering 6 million Jewish people and millions 
        of others, ``He was a very great man'';
Whereas activist Tamika Mallory called Minister Louis Farrakhan the ``greatest 
        of all time'', and her fellow organizer, Linda Sarsour said, ``Only Jews 
        . . . are ones that condone violence against Arabs and are cool with 
        mosques being attacked'';
Whereas throughout the years, current Members of Congress have met with, posed 
        for pictures with, and have otherwise embraced Farrakhan;
Whereas Representative Rashida Tlaib, who supports the Boycott, Divestment, and 
        Sanctions (BDS) movement, has been asked by the Anti-Defamation League 
        (ADL), a Jewish nongovernmental organization that fights hate crimes, to 
        explain why she invited Abbas Hamideh to attend her swearing in events, 
        who said in 2016, ``Israel does not have a right to exist. The terrorist 
        entity is illegal and has no basis to exist other than a delusional 
        ISIS-like ideology'';
Whereas Abbas Hamideh also stated in 2019, ``I'm willing to go back to my 
        country #Palestine if the Zionist terrorists go back to Poland. Deal? 
        Let's get that ball rolling ASAP. Get off Twitter and let's make that 
        happen'';
Whereas Representative Tlaib, who stated on January 6, 2019, of Americans who 
        support Israel, ``They forgot what country they represent'';
Whereas, on November 16, 2012, Representative Ilhan Omar, who also supports the 
        BDS movement, tweeted, ``Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah 
        awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel'';
Whereas it is the policy of the United States to oppose restrictive trade 
        practices or boycotts fostered or imposed by any foreign country against 
        other countries friendly to the United States or against any United 
        States person;
Whereas Omar Barghouti, founder of the BDS movement, said, ``We are witnessing 
        the rapid demise of Zionism, and nothing can be done to save it, for 
        Zionism is intent on killing itself. I, for one, support euthanasia,'' 
        and also stated, ``Many of the methods of collective and individual 
        `punishment' meted out to Palestinian civilians at the hands of young, 
        racist, often sadistic and ever impervious Israeli soldiers . . . are 
        reminiscent of common Nazi practices against the Jews'';
Whereas, as a result of the BDS movement, Jewish students on college campuses 
        across America have been exposed to rampant anti-Semitism, for example, 
        at New York University, after the student government passed a resolution 
        supporting BDS, the Bronfman Center for Jewish Life was temporarily 
        closed in response to threatening Twitter posts by a student who 
        expressed ``a desire for Zionists to die'';
Whereas other examples of anti-Semitism on college campuses include a University 
        of Michigan professor who refused to write a letter of recommendation 
        for a qualified student solely because she was seeking to study abroad 
        in Israel, a Students for Justice in Palestine cofounder and University 
        of California, Berkeley, professor spoke at a national conference and 
        shared an anti-Semitic meme of an Orthodox Jewish person in his 
        presentation, at Warren Wilson College, an invited speaker stated, 
        ``Jews are doing the same thing to the Palestinians as the Nazis did to 
        the Jews'', a Yik Yak posting at the University of California read, 
        ``Gas them, burn them, and dismantle their power structure. Humanity 
        cannot progress with the parasitic Jew'', and more globally, University 
        of Durban in South Africa called for the expulsion of Jewish students 
        who did not support BDS at the University;
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 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 demonstrator, and two Virginia 
        State police officers died in the line of duty that day as well;
Whereas, on October 27, 2018, White supremacist Robert Bowers murdered 11 people 
        and injured 7 at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 
        including 4 police officers, and while in custody and receiving medical 
        treatment, Bowers told a SWAT officer he ``wanted all Jews to die'';
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 
        most strongly condemned;
Whereas the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, of which the United 
        States is a member, adopted a ``working definition'' of anti-Semitism as 
        ``a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward 
        Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of anti-Semitism are 
        directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, 
        toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities''; and
Whereas contemporary examples of anti-Semitism in public life, the media, 
        schools, the workplace, and in the religious sphere include denying the 
        Jewish people their right to self-determination: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that 
the House of Representatives rejects anti-Israel and anti-Semitic 
hatred in the United States and around the world.
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