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Confronting Anti-Semitism

Floor Speech

Date: Jan. 27, 2020
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Religion

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Mr. SPANO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to confront a cancer that has been rapidly spreading, and that cancer is anti-Semitism, here at home and around the world.

It is unsettling, and it is downright appalling. Day after day, I see new headlines about disparaging rhetoric and violence against the Jewish people.

The Anti-Defamation League reports that 80 percent of European Jews feel anti-Semitism in their country is increasing, and 40 percent live in daily fear of physical attack.

In 2018, here at home, there were 1,879 reported anti-Semitic incidents in the United States. Our Nation was founded on freedom of religion and diversity, and we must do everything necessary to preserve it.

To that end, today, the House passed H.R. 943, the Never Again Education Act, of which I am a proud cosponsor. It funds Holocaust education programs around the country.

Mr. Speaker, America cannot and will not become a breeding ground for hatred.

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