Title: A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that acts of violence against Jewish people in the United States and around the world and the poisonous rhetoric from politicians and others promoted by the media that has helped inspire such violence is condemnable and has no place in society.
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

Summary:
This resolution addresses issues regarding Jews in the United States and anti-Israel rhetoric.
Specifically, the Senate

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 232 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 232

Expressing the sense of the Senate that acts of violence against Jewish 
  people in the United States and around the world and the poisonous 
  rhetoric from politicians and others promoted by the media that has 
    helped inspire such violence is condemnable and has no place in 
                                society.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 25, 2021

    Mr. Hawley (for himself, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. 
 Marshall, Mr. Cruz, Ms. Ernst, Mr. Braun, Mr. Daines, Mr. Tillis, Mr. 
  Cramer, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Rubio, Mr. Cassidy, and Mr. 
Hagerty) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of the Senate that acts of violence against Jewish 
  people in the United States and around the world and the poisonous 
  rhetoric from politicians and others promoted by the media that has 
    helped inspire such violence is condemnable and has no place in 
                                society.

Whereas Jews across the United States have been threatened, cursed at, spit on, 
        burned, and physically attacked in at least 193 antisemitic acts of 
        violence during the first week of the 2021 conflict between Israel and 
        Palestinians;
Whereas pro-Palestinian protestors threatened, shoved, and threw fireworks at 
        bystanders in the Diamond District of Midtown Manhattan, an area with 
        many Jewish-owned businesses;
Whereas pro-Palestinian protestors punched, threw objects, and directed 
        antisemitic slurs at a group of Jewish men eating at a restaurant in Los 
        Angeles;
Whereas convoys of trucks bearing Palestinian flags drove through London 
        shouting through loudspeakers: ``F__ the Jews'', ``F__ their mothers'', 
        ``F__ their daughters'', and ``Rape their daughters'';
Whereas an elderly Jewish man was beaten with sticks by a mob at a pro-
        Palestinian protest in Toronto;
Whereas a Member of Congress called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an 
        ``ethno-nationalist'' on the floor of the House of Representatives and 
        in a tweet accused the Israeli military of committing war crimes;
Whereas, after the announcement of a ceasefire in Israel, a Member of Congress 
        tweeted, ``The Israeli military's occupation continues. The blockade 
        continues. The ethnic cleansing continues.'';
Whereas a Member of Congress described Israel in a tweet as an ``apartheid 
        state''; and
Whereas a Member of Congress tweeted that the Israeli military response to 
        Palestinian terrorist attacks was killing ``babies, children and their 
        parents'' and that Palestinians are ``being massacred'': Now, therefore, 
        be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) condemns hatred and violence against Jews;
            (2) denounces the poisonous anti-Israel rhetoric of elected 
        officials that has inflamed hatred and inspired escalating 
        violence against Jews;
            (3) rejects the biased, incomplete, and inaccurate 
        information promulgated by the news media in the United States 
        about Israel and the Government of Israel's efforts to protect 
        its citizens from terrorism;
            (4) celebrates the innumerable contributions of American 
        Jews to our Nation, culture, values, and way of life; and
            (5) reaffirms its intent to ensure that Jews in the United 
        States--
                    (A) are treated with dignity and respect; and
                    (B) receive the full protection of the law owed to 
                them as citizens of the United States.
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