- Remember Tim Kaine?
Posted by Morrissey
on November 15, 2021, 9:41 pm
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SENATE RESOLUTION 252--UNEQUIVOCALLY CONDEMNING THE RECENT RISE IN ANTISEMITIC VIOLENCE AND HARASSMENT TARGETING JEWISH AMERICANS, AND STANDING IN SOLIDARITY WITH THOSE AFFECTED BY ANTISEMITISM...; Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 93 (Senate - May 27, 2021) Ms. ROSEN (for herself, Mr. Lankford, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Blunt, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Carper, Mr. Moran, Mr. Kelly, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Daines, Ms. Hassan, Mr. Rubio, Mr. Peters, Mr. Portman, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Tillis, Mr. Cardin, Ms. Collins, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Cassidy, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Cramer, Ms. Sinema, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Risch, Mr. Markey, Mr. Hoeven, Ms. Cortez Masto, Mr. Braun, Mr. King, Mr. Boozman, Mr. Kaine, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Schumer, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Thune, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Reed, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Booker, Mrs. Fischer, Mr. Coons, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Casey, Ms. Ernst, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Rounds, Mr. Hickenlooper, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Romney, Mrs. Murray, and Mr. Young) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary: S. Res. 252 Whereas antisemitism remains a serious and growing danger for Jews in the United States and around the world; Whereas, in May 2021, antisemitic incidents and rhetoric have surged in the United States and around the world as hostilities between Hamas and Israel escalated; Whereas, since the beginning of 2021, there has been an increase in acts of antisemitism, including-- (1) individuals in London calling for Jewish ``daughters to be raped''; (2) a German synagogue being pelted with rocks; (3) an attack on Jewish diners in Los Angeles, California; (4) fireworks hurled at a crowd in New York City, New York; (5) synagogues in Tucson, Arizona, and Skokie, Illinois, being vandalized; (6) Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi's claim in an interview that Israel ``controls the media'' and has ``deep pockets,'' perpetuating an antisemitic conspiracy theory; and (7) Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's invocation of the blood libel myth, which has historically been used to justify violence against Jews; Whereas such antisemitic incidents are part of a broader increase in the number and intensity of antisemitic ..... ad nauseam.... https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2021/05/27/senate-section/article/S3904-2 |
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