Combating antisemitism
Sherman has long worked to fight all forms of antisemitism, bigotry and hatred in all its forms -- wherever and whenever it happens.
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Los Angeles, CA -- The Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed a resolution endorsing the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism.
"I'm glad to see today the LA City Council voted unanimously to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism," said Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA). "This is the same definition I pushed the U.S. Department of Education to use to enforce Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to protect Jewish students, as well as the one long used by the U.S. State Department."
I am outraged and disappointed by the decision of 14 student groups at the UC Berkeley School of Law to pass a bylaw that would effectively end Jewish participation in their organizations. This new bylaw, which bans the participation of speakers that "support Zionism", would prevent figures such as President Biden or Berkeley Law's own Dean Erwin Chemerinsky from speaking at these events simply because they believe that Israel has a right to exist.
Today marks the 4-year anniversary of the Tree of Life shooting – the deadliest act of antisemitic violence in American history. On this day in 2018, a man radicalized by antisemitic conspiracy theories online walked into Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue and opened fire, murdering 11 worshippers while shouting "all Jews must die."
Washington, D.C. -- "Pleased to report that today my bill, the Peace and Tolerance in Palestinian Education Act, was passed unanimously by the House Foreign Affairs Committee," said Congressman Brad Sherman. "I commend my colleagues for voting in favor of this important bill and look forward to building on this support to secure its ultimate passage."
Granada Hills, CA -- On August 10, 1999, an avowed white supremacist walked into the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills and began a shooting spree he wanted to serve as "a wakeup call to America to kill Jews."
Choosing the location for its light security, he injured five people at the center and murdered a postal service worker of Filipino origin, Joseph Ileto.
Washington, D.C. – Ahead of the 50th Anniversary of the Munich Massacre, Congress MembersBrad Sherman (CA-30), Burgess Owens (UT-04), and Shontel Brown (OH-11) introduced a bipartisan House Resolution calling for a moment of silence in Congress and at all future Olympic Opening Ceremonies in honor of the eleven Israeli athletes who were brutally murdered by a group of Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.