Action Highlights

Task Force Hosts Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff for Administration Update 

Task Force Co-Chairs Representatives Kathy Manning (D-NC), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), and Grace Meng (D-NY) welcomed the Second Gentleman, Doug Emhoff, to the Capitol on January 12th for a discussion about efforts to combat growing antisemitism and hate nationwide. The Second Gentleman will visit Krakow, Poland, and Berlin, Germany later this month with Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism.

Task Force Hosts Briefing With FBI Officials 

Following the release of the FBI's 2021 Annual Hate Crime Statistics report, Task Force members met with senior officials from the FBI to express their concerns about the missing data and underreporting from police departments across the country. 

Pictured here: Minority Leader Hakeem Jefferies, Representatives Steve Cohen (TN-09), Josh Gottheimer (NJ-05), Kathy Manning (NC-06), and Jack Bergman (MI-01). Members that attended but  are not pictured include Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (FL-23), Donald Beyer (VA-08), Lois Frankel (FL-21), and Jerry Nadler (NY-01).

Members were also joined by White House Liaison to the American Jewish Community, Shelley Greenspan. Read more about the meeting here. 

Following Task Force Letter, White House Establishes Inter-Agency Group to Combat Antisemitism

The House and Senate Bipartisan Task Forces for Combating Antisemitism led 125 Members of Congress in sending a bipartisan and bicameral letter to President Biden calling for inter-agency coordination to combat antisemitism. 

Following their letter, the Administration announced the establishment of an Inter-Agency Group to Counter Antisemitism. 

READ the letter here and the White House announcement here. 

Task Force Co-chairs Meet with UK Members of Parliament 

Task Force Co-chairs Representatives Kathy Manning (D-NC), Randy Weber (R-TX), and Grace Meng (D-NY) met with a delegation of Members of Parliament from the United Kingdom’s All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) Against Antisemitism.

The group discussed challenges facing the Jewish communities in the United States and the UK and ways to increase transatlantic cooperation in the fight against rising antisemitism. Read more about the event here.

FYSA

NEW ADL REPORT: Number of Americans Harboring Extensive Antisemitic Prejudice Doubled Since 2019
Released on January 12th, the Anti-Defamation League's Antisemitism in America Report found that antisemitic beliefs among U.S. adults are at their highest in three decades. 

READ the report here. 

UPCOMING DATE:
January 27th marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Visit the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website here for resources on how to commemorate this day. 

Joint Co-chair Statement 

Co-chairs: Reps. Kathy Manning (D-NC), Chris Smith (R-NJ), Grace Meng (D-NY), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Kay Granger (R-TX), Marc Veasey (D-TX), Randy Weber (R-TX)

In the News

61-Year-Old Holocaust Monument Designated a National Memorial

Representative Shontel Brown said in a statement that she was “pleased” to see that the legislation to recognize the memorial had received bipartisan and bicameral support as part of the omnibus package, adding that the memorial’s recognition was “momentous” for “the survivors who erected this memorial and their families who continue its maintenance." 

Biden Establishes Interagency Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, Heeding Calls From U.S. Jewish Groups

“With Jewish communities here in the U.S. and worldwide experiencing an epidemic of anti-Jewish bigotry and violence, a whole-of-government approach is needed to counter the scourge of antisemitism,” said Sen. Jacky Rosen, who led 125 bipartisan, bicameral lawmakers in urging the Biden administration to adopt a whole-of-government approach to combatting antisemitism, including the creation of an interagency task force.

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