[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1114 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1114

    Denouncing the rise of Islamophobia and antisemitism across the 
                                country.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 5, 2024

 Mr. Gottheimer submitted the following resolution; which was referred 
to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on 
Energy and Commerce, 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


 
    Denouncing the rise of Islamophobia and antisemitism across the 
                                country.

Whereas, on October 14, 2023, Wadee Alfayoumi, a 6-year-old Palestinian 
        American, was brutally stabbed and tragically succumbed to his injuries;
Whereas there is evidence Wadee Alfayoumi's attacker yelled during the brutal 
        murder, ``All Muslims must die.'';
Whereas Hisham Awartani of Brown University in Rhode Island, Kinnan Abdalhamid 
        of Haverford College in Pennsylvania, and Tahseen Ali Ahmad of Trinity 
        College in Connecticut, all at the time aged 20, were shot while on 
        Thanksgiving break in Burlington, Vermont;
Whereas, at the time of the shooting, Hiram Awartani, Kinnan Abdalhamid, and 
        Tahseen Ali Ahmad were speaking in a mix of English and Arabic and two 
        were wearing Palestinian keffiyehs, all three were shot, and one remains 
        paralyzed;
Whereas Paul Kessler, aged 69, accompanied a neighbor to an Israel rally at an 
        intersection in Thousand Oaks, California, in November 2023;
Whereas, during an altercation between protesters and counterprotesters, Paul 
        Kessler was hit in the head and fell to the ground;
Whereas Paul Kessler later succumbed to these injuries;
Whereas the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed that, in 2022, there 
        was an increase of 794 reported hate crimes from the prior year;
Whereas, in 2021, the FBI placed hate crimes at the same national threat 
        priority level as preventing domestic violent extremism;
Whereas the FBI has reported hundreds of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim hate crimes 
        between 2018 and 2022;
Whereas FBI tracking of antisemitic hate crimes increased 36 percent in 2022;
Whereas race, ethnicity, and religion-based hate crimes remain the most commonly 
        reported hate crimes;
Whereas no one should be a target of hate because of their race, ethnicity, or 
        religion;
Whereas misinformation, disinformation, and deeply offensive and stereotypical 
        tropes and rhetoric are spewed on forms of social media, especially 
        TikTok, which fuels sentiments of hate that result in violence against 
        those who belong or are perceived to belong to a certain ethnic or 
        religious group;
Whereas nonprofit security grants provide crucial support for security to 
        nonprofit institutions, including places of worship, which includes 
        mosques, churches, and synagogues;
Whereas faith-based institutions are susceptible to attacks by violent 
        extremists and their radical beliefs;
Whereas children in the United States, and those across the globe, deserve to 
        live in peace and be free from all forms of discrimination, hate crimes, 
        and violence; and
Whereas all children deserve to live freely without fear of discrimination and 
        hatred on the basis of their race, sex, age, gender, sexual orientation, 
        religion, ethnicity, national origin, and disability: Now, therefore, be 
        it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives recognizes that--
            (1) all have the freedom to express their race, ethnicity, 
        and religion in whatever way they believe;
            (2) the rise in hate crimes, Islamophobia, and antisemitism 
        is unacceptable and cannot be tolerated;
            (3) social media companies and executives must do more to 
        counter and limit the propaganda and violent rhetoric expressed 
        across their platforms; and
            (4) nonprofit security grants are crucial to protect and 
        ensure houses of worship and other nonprofit institutions have 
        the security and resources they need.
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