[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 153 (Thursday, September 13, 2018)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1253-E1254]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     SPECIAL ENVOY TO MONITOR AND COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM ACT OF 2018

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                               speech of

                          HON. STENY H. HOYER

                              of maryland

                    in the house of representatives

                     Wednesday, September 12, 2018

  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I want to add my voice to those of my 
colleagues who have expressed strong support for this bill, H.R. 1911. 
It is imperative that the United States leads in the effort to stamp 
out anti-Semitism both at home and around the world. That's why we need 
an ambassadorial-level special envoy to monitor and combat anti-
Semitism.
  In recent years, we've witnessed a disturbing rise in attacks against 
Jews and Jewish communities all around the world. Americans were deeply 
shaken last year by the virulent anti-Semitism on display in our own 
country during the white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, 
Virginia. I continue to be alarmed by attacks on Israel and its 
policies that employ rhetoric historically associated with anti-
Semitism and that repeat old patterns of singling out the Jewish State 
in ways that mimic ancient biases. There must be no place for such 
rhetoric or activities in our country or anywhere that calls itself a 
free and democratic society.
  I commend Ranking Member Engel of the House Foreign Affairs 
Committee, along with Reps. Lowey, Schneider, Deutch, and Veasey, for 
their hard work with the bill's Republican cosponsors to ensure 
bipartisan passage of this legislation. I hope it will send a strong 
message throughout the world that the United States will never waver in 
its effort to end the scourge of anti-Semitism and defend our ally 
Israel.

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