On the recordMay 30, 2023
I want to associate myself with the ranking member's statements. I have served, as long as I have served, with the gentleman from New York. Mr. Nadler has been a leader on this, and this is a bipartisan issue, one that each year we are honored to come before this Congress and renew our statement of solidarity with this community that has, in fact, as the gentleman said, grown in numbers, mostly because they have been persecuted around the world. This year is no exception. As we speak, the President of Ukraine is being called a Nazi in order to diminish who he is and his faith. It is only in this kind of a world where you can use terms like that as a Russian head of state in order to try to diminish somebody duly elected. As I said in my opening statement--and I will say it again and again every chance I get--if America does not lead in crushing anti-Semitism and denouncing it, the rest of the world will take it as it is okay to do. We cannot ever again allow what we saw in World War II. We cannot ever again turn a blind eye to the growth of anti-Semitism here or around the world. I stand with my colleague from New York in saying that is more essential this year than ever before. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
