[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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