[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 94 (Tuesday, June 3, 2025)]
[House]
[Pages H2387-H2388]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         CALL EVIL BY ITS NAME

  (Mr. Fine of Florida was recognized to address the House for 5 
minutes.)
  Mr. FINE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today not just as a Member of Congress 
but as the father of two Jewish boys. I speak for all the Jews across 
the country, millions of them, who today go to the grocery store, their 
jobs, and school and live their lives afraid of what might happen to 
them.
  Eighty years ago in Germany, Jews were burned in ovens for being 
Jews, and on Sunday, as I sat at home with my children watching TV, we 
saw that here in the United States, in 2025, Jews are being burned 
again.
  You see, Mr. Speaker, it feels like open hunting season on Jewish 
Americans. I wear a kippah not because I am a proud and observant Jew. 
I am not all that observant. I wear it out of respect for all the Jews 
around America who do not feel safe wearing theirs today. That is 
because, by wearing it, they feel they literally have a target on their 
heads.
  We have heard for 18 months that the intifada should be globalized. 
We have heard ``resistance by any means necessary.'' On Sunday, and 
again 2 weeks ago, we saw what that looked like.
  In this country, we have a hard decision to make. We have to make a 
decision about whether we are going to continue to be afraid or whether 
we are going to call evil by its name.
  I have news for you, Mr. Speaker. When someone chants ``Free 
Palestine,'' what they are calling for is the destruction of the only 
Jewish state in the world.
  When someone says, ``From the river to the sea,'' what they are 
calling for is the genocide of every Jew who lives in Israel and 
abroad.
  We have to make a decision as a country: Are we going to call evil by 
its name, or are we going to continue to live in fear?
  There are things that we can do, things that we must do, and things 
that I will be working here to make happen.
  We must join Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain and declare 
the Muslim Brotherhood and all of its affiliates the terrorist 
organization that it is.
  We must tackle the anti-Semitism that we have seen at our 
universities, and I have a bill that will deal with that. That is 
because when people hear lies that come from the universities that they 
believe are truthful and honest, and when they hear lies about what is 
going on in the world, it inflames them and leads to the actions that 
we have seen in the past couple of weeks.
  The murderer--I don't know that he murdered anyone, so I apologize. 
The attempted murderer in Colorado was someone who is here illegally. 
That is the worst kind of crime because it is done by someone who 
shouldn't even be here. We need to do everything possible to back 
President Trump in getting these people out of this country.

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  There is no right to come to the United States if a person is not a 
citizen. It is not a right. It is a privilege. If a person does not 
share our values and if they do not believe in this country, then they 
should not be here.
  I call on every one of these illegal immigrants to either get out or 
for us to get them out.
  Lastly, as it relates to visas, I am a huge believer in immigration. 
America is a country of immigrants. Immigrants are what have made us 
great, but it is the immigrants who wish to come here and build us up, 
not those who wish to come here and tear us down.
  For those who come to this country and go to our universities and 
work in other places, and their job is to undermine and defeat what has 
existed for 249 years, it is time for us to revoke those visas and to 
send them home.
  The most important thing, Mr. Speaker, is that we must not be afraid 
to tell the truth.

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