May 2, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 72 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      SENATE RESOLUTION 189--CONDEMNING ALL FORMS OF ANTISEMITISM

  Mr. CRUZ (for himself, Mr. Kaine, Mr. Cramer, Ms. Rosen, Mr. Young, 
Mr. Coons, Mr. Rubio, Ms. Cortez Masto, Mr. Cotton, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. 
Inhofe, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Hawley, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Mr. Braun, Mr. 
Barrasso, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Risch, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. Tillis, Mr. 
Cassidy, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Hoeven, Mr. Isakson, Mr. Blunt, Mr. Romney, 
Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Moran, Ms. Collins, Mr. Rounds, Mr. Wicker, Mrs. 
Fischer, Ms. Ernst, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Graham, Mr. Daines, Ms. McSally, 
Mr. Boozman, Mr. Toomey, Mrs. Capito, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Perdue, Mr. 
Sullivan, and Mr. Lankford) submitted the following resolution; which 
was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary:

                              S. Res. 189

       Whereas antisemitism is a unique form of prejudice 
     stretching back millennia that attacks the equal humanity of 
     the Jewish people;
       Whereas antisemitism has long perpetrated myths about Jews, 
     including the Russian fabrication of the Protocols of the 
     Elders of Zion and the wide circulation of libelous 
     falsehoods about the Jewish murder of infants;
       Whereas, in its most extreme form, antisemitism aims at the 
     physical destruction of the Jewish people, as seen in 
     pogroms, forced conversions and Nazi Germany's murder of over 
     six million Jews;
       Whereas antisemitism has included attacks on the livelihood 
     of Jews including prohibitions on land ownership, campaigns 
     to boycott, confiscate or destroy Jewish businesses, and 
     denial of the ability of Jews to practice certain 
     professions;
       Whereas, in the United States, Jews have suffered from 
     systematic discrimination in the form of exclusion from home 
     ownership

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     in certain neighborhoods, prohibition from staying in certain 
     hotels, restrictions upon membership in private clubs and 
     other associations, limitations upon admission to certain 
     educational institutions and other barriers to equal justice 
     under the law;
       Whereas, in the United States, Jews have faced, and 
     continue to face, false accusations of divided loyalty 
     between the United States and Israel, false claims that they 
     purchase political power with money, and false accusations 
     about control of the financial system, along with other 
     negative stereotypes; and
       Whereas Jews are the targets of the majority of hate crimes 
     committed in the United States against any religious group, 
     including attacks on houses of worship and Jewish community 
     centers: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That the United States Senate condemns and 
     commits to combatting all forms of antisemitism.

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