Bill Text: NJ AR213 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Rebukes White House for issuing International Holocaust Remembrance Day statement that failed to mention Jews or anti-Semitism.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-02-15 - Filed with Secretary of State [AR213 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2016-AR213-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman GARY S. SCHAER
District 36 (Bergen and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Rebukes White House for issuing International Holocaust Remembrance Day statement that failed to mention Jews or anti-Semitism.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Assembly Resolution rebuking the White House for issuing an International Holocaust Remembrance Day statement that failed to mention Jews or the anti-Semitism that led to the Nazi genocide against the Jewish people.
Whereas, January 27th of each year has been designated by the United Nations as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the time that each member nation is urged to honor the victims of the Nazi era and to develop educational programs to help prevent future genocides; and
Whereas, In its notice of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the statement issued in 2017 by the White House failed to mention Jews or the anti-Semitism that led to Adolf Hitler's genocide against the Jewish people; and
Whereas, Though many assumed that the omission was a mistake made by the newly-installed administration of President Donald J. Trump, an administration spokesperson explained that the omission was intentional because the Trump administration wanted to acknowledge that other groups had been killed by Hitler's regime as well; and
Whereas, In response to this astonishing admission, House Democratic Conference Chairman Joe Crowley, from New York, and more than 100 co-sponsors, introduced H. Res.78 in the House of Representatives, "reiterating the indisputable fact that the Nazi regime targeted the Jewish people in its perpetuation of the Holocaust and calling on every entity in the executive branch to affirm that fact"; and
Whereas, When Representative Crowley sought a vote on this resolution during consideration by the House of Representatives of another issue, the Republican majority in the House defeated the plan on a party-line vote; and
Whereas, The defeat of this resolution does not negate the fact that the White House failed to recognize or acknowledge that the purpose of the Holocaust was to destroy the Jewish people; and
Whereas, It is unconscionable that the leader of the United States, a nation that was founded on the principles of religious freedom, justice, tolerance, and human rights, would purposely fail to remember and denounce one of the worst atrocities in recorded history perpetuated against a people who observed a particular religious belief; and
Whereas, It is fitting and proper that this House rebuke the White House for issuing a statement concerning International Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2017 that failed to mention Jews or the anti-Semitism that led to the Nazi genocide against the Jewish people; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. This House rebukes the White House for issuing an International Holocaust Remembrance Day statement in 2017 that failed to mention Jews or the anti-Semitism that led to the Nazi genocide against the Jewish people.
2. Copies of this resolution, as filed with the Secretary of State, shall be transmitted by the Clerk of the General Assembly to President Donald J. Trump, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, each member of Congress elected from this State, and to prominent leaders of the Jewish community in New Jersey.
STATEMENT
This Assembly Resolution rebukes the White House for issuing an International Holocaust Remembrance Day statement in 2017 that failed to mention Jews or the anti-Semitism that led to the Nazi genocide against the Jewish people.
