A bipartisan congressional resolution urging increased action by the United States and other countries to address resurgent anti-Semitism has wall-to-wall Jewish organizational support.
In a letter to colleagues in the US House of Representatives seeking co-sponsorship of the nonbinding resolution, the initiators of the resolution make a point of noting the range of Jewish organizations backing the resolution, among them the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Zionist Organization of America and J Street — groups that rarely if ever join together in any action.
Reps. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Pete Roskam (R-Ill.), Nita Lowey (D-NY) and Kay Granger (R-Texas) initiated the resolution, which was introduced on July 31. The August 28 letter now circulating had garnered 93 co-sponsors, also covering a political range among Congress members, by Monday.