[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 78 (Friday, May 10, 2019)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E580]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    CONDEMNING ANTI-SEMITIC VIOLENCE

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                           HON. DUNCAN HUNTER

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                          Friday, May 10, 2019

  Mr. HUNTER. Madam Speaker, in the aftermath of the attack at Chabad 
of Poway on April 27, 2019, that took place on the last day of Passover 
and just months after the attack at the Tree of Life synagogue in 
Pittsburgh, I rise to strongly condemn antisemitism and to bring 
attention to the troubling increase in attacks on Jews.
  Just last year, attacks on Jews and Jewish communities rose to a 
level that has not been seen in decades, with offensive language, 
actions, damage to property, injuries to people, and unfortunately, 
loss of life. There is an increase in anti-Semitic content online and 
in print and the rhetoric is becoming more common place and seemingly 
more normalized and accepted by civil society.
  Last week was Israel's recognition of Holocaust Remembrance Day. It's 
therefore fitting that we recognize the threat of unchecked anti-Jewish 
bigotry and discrimination in light of one of the world's worst state 
sponsored massacres: the systematic and deliberate, government-
controlled persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi 
regime.
  At the same time, I stand with the victims of the attack in Poway and 
their families, and will work with those here, and in my community, to 
guard against such hateful violence in the future.