RESOLUTION NO. 240470
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Sponsor: Councilmember Nathan Willett
RESOLUTION - Amending Resolution No. 230035 that was titled, "Recognizing the growing problem of antisemitism in America and adopting a Working Definition of Antisemitism as an important educational tool to address it." by adding an additional WHEREAS section to address the October 7, 2023, mass murder of Jews.
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WHEREAS, antisemitism includes denying the fact, scope, mechanisms (eg., mass murder) or intentionality of the murder of Jewish people at the hands of Hamas and its supporters and accomplices during the events on October 7, 2023 (the largest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust); and
WHEREAS, antisemitism, including harassment on the basis of actual or perceived Jewish origin, ancestry, ethnicity, identify, affiliation, or faith, remains a persistent, pervasive, and disturbing problem in American society; and
WHEREAS, antisemitism may be expressed in speech, writing, visual forms and action, and employs sinister stereotypes to encourage hatred against Jews; and
WHEREAS, antisemitism includes calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion; and
WHEREAS, antisemitism includes denying the fact, scope, mechanisms (e.g., gas chambers) or intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of National Socialist Germany and its supporters and accomplices during World War II (the Holocaust); and
WHEREAS, Jews continue to be a targeted minority in the United States and are consistently the most likely of all religious groups to be victimized by incidents of hate, and such incidents are increasing at an alarming rate; and
WHEREAS, the deadliest attack against the American Jewish community took place on October 27, 2018, at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, killing eleven worshippers and injuring several more; and
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