Censuring Pramila Jayapal, Representative of the 7th Congressional District of Washington.

Bill: 118-hres-606
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Ogles, Andrew [R-TN-5]
Introduced: 2023-07-20
Policy area: Congress
Latest action: action_date: 2023-07-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ethics.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-07-20
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This resolution censures Representative Pramila Jayapal for her antisemitic remark regarding Israel.</p>

tv_txt: IV 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. RES. 606 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 20, 2023 Mr. Ogles (for himself, Mr. Weber of Texas , and Mr. Duncan ) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Ethics RESOLUTION Censuring Pramila Jayapal, Representative of the 7th Congressional District of Washington.

Whereas Representative Pramila Jayapal has promoted antisemitic and anti-Israel sentiment through her congressional career; Whereas, in May 2021, Representative Jayapal blamed Israel for Hamas’s decision to indiscriminately fire rockets into Israeli territory; Whereas, on May 20, 2021, Representative Jayapal co-sponsored legislation which would have provided congressional disapproval of a proposed direct commercial arms sales to Israel as Israeli citizens were enduring a barrage of 4,300 rockets from Palestinian terrorists; Whereas, on July 15, 2023, Representative Jayapal stated the following to a group of pro-Palestinian protestors: Hey guys, can I say something? Can I say something as somebody that’s been in the streets and has participated in a lot of demonstrations? I want you to know that we have been fighting to make it clear that Israel is a racist state, that the Palestinian people deserve self-determination and autonomy, that the dream of a two-state solution is slipping away from us, that it does not even feel possible. ; Whereas, in 2000, after Yasser Arafat rejected a Palestinian state, which would have included East Jerusalem as a tentative new capital as well as the concession of the Gaza Strip and virtually all of the Judea and Samaria Area, the Palestinians launched the Second Intifada and killed over a thousand Israeli citizens; Whereas, in 2008, Israel offered the Palestinians a state on terms similar to the 2000 proposal, but with additional territorial concessions; Whereas, despite repeated Palestinian terrorist attacks against both Israelis and Americans alike, Israel’s numerous offers of peace indicate its unwavering willingness to work in good faith; Whereas antisemitic tropes attacking Israel as a racist or an apartheid state only serve to falsify the historical record and justify continued terrorist attacks against Israeli citizens; and Whereas the United States House of Representatives has an obligation to confront and condemn antisemitism in all its manifestations: Now, therefore, be it

That— (1) the House of Representatives censures Pramila Jayapal, Representative of the 7th Congressional District of Washington, for her antisemitic remark on July 15, 2023, regarding the State of Israel; (2) Representative Pramila Jayapal will forthwith present herself in the well of the House of Representatives for the pronouncement of censure; and (3) Representative Pramila Jayapal will be censured with the public reading of this resolution by the Speaker.