Sense. Dave McCormick (R., Pa.) And John Fetterman (D., Pa.) Introduced a resolution on Wednesday, which condemns anti -Semitism and points to the last clamorous attacks.
The resolution condemns “an increase in ideologically motivated attacks on Jewish people” and confirm[s] The Senate’s obligation to combat anti -Semitism and politically motivated violence. “
He cites recent attacks in Boulder, Colo., Washington, DC and Harrisburg and says that “they have a common pattern of attacking Jewish people or symbols of Jewish life and civic commitment.”
The double -sided resolution of the Senate has 34 sponsors and follows the House version, which was presented by the US representative Jeff Van Drew (R., Nj) at the beginning of this month.
Fetterman and McCormick said that the issue of anti -Semitism became particularly personal for them, because 11 people died during the attack on the Tree of Life congregation in Squirrel Hill, the neighborhood in Pittsburgh with a large Jewish community and where McCormick lives.
McCormick said that the protection of “all Jewish people throughout the country must be a national priority” and that Pittsburgh’s attack in 2018 “brings this problem for me.”
Fetterman said that the attack in 2018 felt “an even stronger moral duty to confront anti -Semitism, wherever it seems and unite with hatred.”
Since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, Fetterman appeared as one of the most ardent defenders of Israel in the Democratic Party and was recognized by the prime minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu and the Yeshiva University in New York for his support. McCormick was also a vocal supporter of Israel on the Capitol and said The Jewish community has stood in the face of “unprecedented and persistent anti -Semitic hatred and violence” since the attack of October 7.
Hamas’ attack on Israel and the later war of Israel-Hamas in Gaza escalated domestic tensions regarding anti-Semitism and international policy. This landscape is inseparable after the attacks listed in the resolution.
At the Boulder instance, the man shouted “Free Palestine” and threw a makeshift flameter of fire in a group that gathered to pay attention to the Israeli hostages in Gaza at the beginning of this month at the beginning of the Jewish Shavuot holiday at the beginning of the Jewish.
About a week earlier in Washington, another man who shouted the same sentence was accused of fatal shooting to two employees of the Israeli embassy before the Jewish museum.
And in Harrisburg, Governor Josh Shapiro was in the governor’s residence to celebrate Passover with his family in April, when Cody Balmer allegedly set fire to the residence in devices in the style of Molotov cocktail. He was accused of attempting to murder, terrorism, arson and related crimes.
Balmer commented on Palestinians in Gaza, admitting to the police, saying that he would “not take part” in what he called “plans for what he wants to do with the Palestinian people,” said the authorities.
Shapiro was a supporter of Israel and recommended the safe return of the Israeli, who is a hostage through Hamas, but also recognized a significant number of fatalities in gas and criticized Netanyahu. He said many times that he supported a two -state solution.
Shapiro left the police to determine the Balmer motif, but the leader of the minority of the Senate Chuck Schumer (D., Ny) called the Department of Justice to examine the incident as a hate crime.
