Whereas, on October 14, 2023, Wadee Alfayoumi, a 6-year-old Palestinian American, was brutally stabbed and tragically succumbed to his injuries; Whereas there is evidence Wadee Alfayoumi’s attacker yelled during the brutal murder, All Muslims must die. ; Whereas Hisham Awartani of Brown University in Rhode Island, Kinnan Abdalhamid of Haverford College in Pennsylvania, and Tahseen Ali Ahmad of Trinity College in Connecticut, all at the time aged 20, were shot while on Thanksgiving break in Burlington, Vermont; Whereas, at the time of the shooting, Hiram Awartani, Kinnan Abdalhamid, and Tahseen Ali Ahmad were speaking in a mix of English and Arabic and two were wearing Palestinian keffiyehs, all three were shot, and one remains paralyzed; Whereas Paul Kessler, aged 69, accompanied a neighbor to an Israel rally at an intersection in Thousand Oaks, California, in November 2023; Whereas, during an altercation between protesters and counterprotesters, Paul Kessler was hit in the head and fell to the ground; Whereas Paul Kessler later succumbed to these injuries; Whereas the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed that, in 2022, there was an increase of 794 reported hate crimes from the prior year; Whereas, in 2021, the FBI placed hate crimes at the same national threat priority level as preventing domestic violent extremism; Whereas the FBI has reported hundreds of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim hate crimes between 2018 and 2022; Whereas FBI tracking of antisemitic hate crimes increased 36 percent in 2022; Whereas race, ethnicity, and religion-based hate crimes remain the most commonly reported hate crimes; Whereas no one should be a target of hate because of their race, ethnicity, or religion; Whereas misinformation, disinformation, and deeply offensive and stereotypical tropes and rhetoric are spewed on forms of social media, especially TikTok, which fuels sentiments of hate that result in violence against those who belong or are perceived to belong to a certain ethnic or religious group