[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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