[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 393 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 393

            Concerning the rise in anti-Semitism in Europe.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 18, 2002

  Mr. Crowley (for himself, Mr. Hastings of Florida, Mr. Tom Davis of 
    Virginia, Mr. Lantos, Mrs. McCarthy of New York, Mr. Engel, Mr. 
 Ackerman, Mrs. Maloney of New York, Mr. Kennedy of Rhode Island, Mr. 
   Nadler, Mr. Hinchey, Mr. Weiner, Mr. Rohrabacher, Mr. Berman, Mr. 
  Israel, Mr. Ferguson, Mr. Hilliard, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Rodriguez, Mr. 
Holt, Ms. Eshoo, Ms. Berkley, Mr. Langevin, Mr. Waxman, Ms. Schakowsky, 
   Mr. Capuano, Mr. King, Mr. Meehan, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Mr. 
   Sanders, Mr. Deutsch, Mrs. Lowey, Mr. McNulty, Mr. Frost, and Mr. 
 Blumenauer) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                the Committee on International Relations

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                               RESOLUTION


 
            Concerning the rise in anti-Semitism in Europe.

Whereas there has been a significant rise in anti-Semitic attacks on Jewish 
        people and Jewish institutions in Europe during the last 18 months;
Whereas the continued violence in the Middle East has fueled anti-Semitic 
        sentiments in Europe;
Whereas on March 31, 2002, the Or Aviv synagogue in Marseille, France, was 
        burned to the ground by anti-Semitic arsonists;
Whereas on March 30, 2002, Shneur Zalman Teldon and Zev Goldberg, Yeshiva 
        students from New Jersey, were brutally beaten on the streets of Berlin, 
        Germany, in an anti-Semitic attack;
Whereas in April 2002, supporters of Swiss Ambassador to Germany, Thomas Borer, 
        alleged that he was removed from his post as a result of a ``Jewish 
        plot'' against him;
Whereas in Belgium, many anti-Semitic attacks have been reported against Jewish 
        institutions including a gasoline bomb attack on a Brussels synagogue;
Whereas on April 11, 2002 in Bondy, France, fifteen hooded attackers wielding 
        sticks and metal bars assaulted a teen-age soccer team from the Maccabi 
        Bondy association after making anti-Semitic remarks; and
Whereas anti-Semitic attacks have impacted every nation in Europe: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives 
that--
            (1) the governments of Europe should take all necessary 
        steps to protect the safety and well-being of their respective 
        Jewish communities; and
            (2) the governments of Europe should make a concerted 
        effort to cultivate an atmosphere of cooperation and 
        reconciliation among the Jewish and non-Jewish residents of 
        Europe.
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