[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 52 (Tuesday, March 26, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H2818]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                             ANTI-SEMITISM

  (Mr. BURCHETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURCHETT. Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak out against the plague 
known as anti-Semitism. We witnessed it in Charlottesville. We suffered 
through the killings at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Mr. 
Speaker, and we saw it again recently here in Congress.
  Anti-Semitism is a condition that has afflicted our world for many 
centuries and ranges from written and spoken words to the mass murder 
of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust.
  Each of us must speak out and condemn it in clear and certain terms 
whenever it appears, Mr. Speaker.
  In Knoxville, my late father, mother, and I, along with our good 
friend, Bernie Bernstein, helped build with our own hands a memorial to 
the 6 million.
  Just a few months ago, I traveled to Israel and saw firsthand how the 
Holocaust affected the Jewish people and how they created a new and 
dynamic democratic state in the Middle East.
  As I heard someone say yesterday, Israel is an oasis of democracy in 
a conflicted region, and support for Israel is not a Jewish issue; it 
is an American issue, Mr. Speaker.
  But, Mr. Speaker, the truth is, support for one of our Nation's 
staunchest allies and anti-Semitism, they cannot coexist.
  As we remember the Holocaust and protect the democracy of Israel, let 
us join together in condemning anti-Semitism in whatever form it 
appears, whether in our neighborhoods or here on the House floor.

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