we must be very quiet. we're hunting haters. they're everywhere and we must remove or at least stifle them; 

 

Here they go again. The members of the United States House of Representatives are set to vote Tuesday on another resolution listing off statistics purportedly demonstrating very high and growing amounts of antisemitism in America.

Those claims are bunk. But that will not stop the vast majority of House members from voting for this resolution just like happened two years ago when the same resolution, sponsored then as now by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), was considered in the House.

In June of 2024, I wrote about the bogus antisemitism claims in H.Res. 1215. Antisemitism claims in that resolution, as with the resolution to be voted on this week, were inflated by including in “antisemitism” speaking or acting in opposition to the Israel government, either in general or in relation to a particular Israel government position or action, in addition to the common understanding of the term “antisemitism” that relates to individuals’ religion or ethnicity.

That 2024 resolution passed by a vote of 371-0. While there were not any “no” votes on the 2024 resolution, a relatively high number of representatives — 59 of them — did not cast a vote. Likely, some of them sat out the vote seeing the “resolved” clauses at the end of the resolution related to opposing antisemitism and showing support for Jewish Americans, along with “whereas” clauses related to particular Jewish Americans’ accomplishments, as good or at least innocuous while recognizing the resolution also featured deceptive claims regarding antisemitism..........more.........