119-hr5714

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5714 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 5714

 To direct the Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 
 to develop a curriculum for the study of modern-day antisemitism 
 surrounding Hamas' October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks against Israel 
 for use in secondary schools, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 October 8, 2025

 Mr. Gottheimer (for himself, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Sherman, Ms. Titus, 
Mr. Landsman, Mr. Goldman of New York, Mr. David Scott of Georgia, Ms. 
Tenney, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Ms. Gillen, Mr. Latimer, Mr. Suozzi, Mr. 
 Stanton, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Moskowitz, Mr. Cuellar, Mr. LaLota, Mr. 
 Magaziner, Mr. Norcross, and Mr. Soto) introduced the following bill; 
 which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce

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 A BILL

 To direct the Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 
 to develop a curriculum for the study of modern-day antisemitism 
 surrounding Hamas' October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks against Israel 
 for use in secondary schools, and for other purposes.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``October 7 Remembrance Education 
Act''.

SEC. 2. CURRICULUM FOR THE STUDY OF ANTISEMITISM SURROUNDING AND 
 LEADING UP TO HAMAS' OCTOBER 7, 2023, TERRORIST ATTACKS 
 AGAINST ISRAEL.

    (a) Curriculum Development.--Beginning not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the United 
States Holocaust Memorial Museum (referred to in this Act as the 
``Director'') shall develop a curriculum for the study of Hamas' 
October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks against Israel, for use in secondary 
schools. Such curriculum shall include information on--

    (1) the heinous and brutal attacks committed against Israel 
 by Hamas on October 7, 2023;

    (2) the history of antisemitism and how it played a role in 
 such attacks;

    (3) how antisemitism and anti-Israel rhetoric spread 
 throughout the United States and on campuses of institutions of 
 higher education following such attacks;

    (4) how social media accelerated the spread of antisemitism 
 and anti-Israel rhetoric following such attacks; and

    (5) denial and distortion as a form of antisemitism in the 
 wake of such attacks.

    (b) Report.--

    (1) In general.--Following the completion of the curriculum 
 development under subsection

    (a) , the Director shall prepare 
 and submit to Congress a report on the curriculum described in 
 subsection

    (a) .

    (2) Deadline for submission.--The report under paragraph

    (1) shall be submitted not later than the earlier of--
        (A) 180 days after the completion of the curriculum 
 development under subsection

    (a) ; or
        (B) 3 years after the date of the enactment of this 
 section.
            (c) === Definitions. ===
-In this Act:

    (1) Antisemitism.--The term ``antisemitism'' has the 
 meaning given the working definition of antisemitism adopted by 
 the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance on May 26, 
 2016, including the contemporary examples of antisemitism cited 
 by the Alliance.

    (2) ESEA terms.--The terms ``local educational agency'', 
 ``secondary school'', and ``State'' have the meanings given 
 those terms in 

section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary 
 Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801).

    (3) Hamas' october 7, 2023, terrorist attacks against 
 israel.--The term ``Hamas' October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks 
 against Israel'' refers to the surprise land, sea, and air 
 attacks against Israel led by the Palestinian Sunni Islamist 
 group Hamas (a United States-designated foreign terrorist 
 organization) from the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023 (the 
 Jewish holiday Simchat Torah and 50 years after the 1973 Yom 
 Kippur War), in which Hamas brutally murdered, decapitated, 
 burned alive, and raped over 1,200 men, women, children, and 
 elderly, and kidnapped over 240 people, including Americans.
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