119-sres296

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 296 Introduced in Senate

    (IS) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
S. RES. 296

 Condemning antisemitism and recent antisemitic attacks in the United 
 States.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 June 23, 2025

Mr. Lankford (for himself, Ms. Rosen, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Hickenlooper, Mr. 
 McCormick, Mr. Fetterman, Mr. Moran, Mr. Thune, and Mr. Schumer) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
 on the Judiciary

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 RESOLUTION

 Condemning antisemitism and recent antisemitic attacks in the United 
 States.

Whereas, on May 21, 2025, the American Jewish Committee organized an event at 
 the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, which brought together 
 Jewish young professionals and diplomats from around the world and 
 featured members of the Multifaith Alliance and IsraAID in a discussion 
 of humanitarian diplomacy and how a coalition of organizations are 
 working together in response to humanitarian crises throughout the 
 Middle East and North Africa;
Whereas, shortly after Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky left the event, they 
 were shot and murdered;
Whereas the suspect in that attack proceeded to enter the event inside the 
 Capital Jewish Museum and told law enforcement, ``I did it for 
 Palestine, I did it for Gaza.'';
Whereas, as law enforcement escorted the suspect outside, he shouted, ``Free 
 Palestine'';
Whereas Sarah Milgrim, a Jewish American from Kansas and staff member at the 
 Embassy of Israel in Washington, DC, was committed to peacebuilding, 
 passionate about people-to-people relations, dedicated to preserving the 
 environment and all its life forms, a lay leader of American Jewish 
 Committee Access, and a member of the American Jewish Committee-Mimouna 
 Michael Sachs Fellowship for Emerging Leaders, where she was focused on 
 advancing relations in the Middle East and North Africa;
Whereas Yaron Lischinsky, an Israeli-German dual citizen, moved from Jerusalem 
 to work at the Embassy of Israel in Washington, DC, where he focused on 
 Middle East issues, and was passionate about creating connections 
 between people and countries for the benefit of the region of the Middle 
 East;
Whereas Sarah and Yaron met at the Embassy of Israel and fell in love in the 
 aftermath of the October 7th terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel and 
 were set to build a future together with a marriage proposal on the 
 horizon;
Whereas, immediately after the murder of Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, 
 there was celebration of that attack on all major social media 
 platforms, including calls for more violence and an increased presence 
 of the phrases ``what goes around comes around'' and ``long live the 
 intifada'', as well as glorification and justification of that violence 
 and characterization of the suspect in the attack as a hero;
Whereas, on June 1, 2025, in Boulder, Colorado, several individuals took part in 
 a peaceful walk organized by ``Run for Their Lives'', showing support 
 for the hostages still held captive by Hamas;
Whereas, during this walk, an individual shouted ``Free Palestine'' and threw 2 
 lit Molotov cocktails into the crowd, resulting in multiple injuries, 
 including severe burns;
Whereas the murders of Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky and the attack in 
 Boulder, Colorado, were the result of antisemitism, extremism, and 
 political violence, which are threats not only to Jewish individuals, 
 but to all of society in the United States;
Whereas, following the attack in Boulder, Colorado, there was a similar 
 celebration of that attack, and of the attacker, as occurred after the 
 May 21, 2025, attack, on all major social media platforms, including 
 praise of the suspect in the attack as a courageous figure and hero and 
 encouraging additional violence;
Whereas, since the October 7, 2023, terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel, 
 antisemitism has surged in the United States and around the world;
Whereas, according to the report published by the American Jewish Committee 
 entitled ``The State of Antisemitism in America 2024''--

    (1) 77 percent of Jewish Americans say they feel less safe as a Jewish 
person in the United States because of the October 7, 2023, terrorist 
attack by Hamas on Israel;

    (2) 56 percent of Jewish Americans say they altered their behavior out 
of fear of antisemitism in 2024, a sharp increase from previous years;

    (3) 90 percent of Jewish Americans say antisemitism has increased in 
the United States since the terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel; and

    (4) 33 percent of Jewish Americans say they have been the personal 
target of antisemitism, in person or virtually, at least once over the last 
year;

Whereas, according to the 2024 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents conducted by the 
 Anti-Defamation League, individuals in the United States experienced 
 9,354 incidents of antisemitism in 2024, a historic high, and for the 
 first time ever, a majority of those incidents, 58 percent, contained 
 references to Israel or Zionism;
Whereas Jewish Americans make up approximately 2.4 percent of the population of 
 the United States, yet account for 68 percent of religiously motivated 
 hate crimes reported, according to the 2023 Hate Crimes Statistics 
 Report issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation;
Whereas the 1,989 reported hate crimes against Jewish Americans in 2023, 
 including assault, arson, larceny, vandalism, imitation, and other acts 
 of violence, was the highest number of anti-Jewish hate crimes ever 
 reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation;
Whereas, according to the 2023 Hate Crimes Statistics Report issued by the 
 Federal Bureau of Investigation, antisemitic hate crimes increased a 
 staggering 63 percent since the annual report issued in 2022;
Whereas antisemitism is not just a Jewish problem, but a problem that threatens 
 democracy and all of humanity; and
Whereas fighting antisemitism will not only protect the Jewish community in the 
 United States but also protect our democracy: Now, therefore, be it
 Resolved, That the Senate--

    (1) mourns the loss of Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky;

    (2) unequivocally condemns antisemitism in all its forms, 
 including the antisemitic attack on and murder of Sarah Milgrim 
 and Yaron Lischinsky, and the antisemitic attack in Boulder, 
 Colorado;

    (3) stands with the Jewish communities in the United States 
 and throughout the world and all those effected by the 
 antisemitic attacks that occurred in Washington, DC, on May 21, 
 2025, and in Boulder, Colorado, on June 1, 2025;

    (4) wishes for the swift recovery of all victims of the 
 attack in Boulder, Colorado;

    (5) encourages all of society to denounce and combat all 
 manifestations of antisemitism and ensure that antisemitism is 
 not normalized;

    (6) recognizes the importance of resources and action in 
 the aftermath of attacks, including the distribution of 
 resources from the Nonprofit Security Grant Program of the 
 Federal Emergency Management Agency; and

    (7) reaffirms the commitment of the people of the United 
 States to combat hate, bigotry, antisemitism, and violence 
 against Jewish Americans.
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