Whereas Representative Pramila Jayapal has promoted antisemitic and anti-Israel sentiment through her congressional career; Whereas, in May 2021, Representative Jayapal blamed Israel for Hamas’s decision to indiscriminately fire rockets into Israeli territory; Whereas, on May 20, 2021, Representative Jayapal co-sponsored legislation which would have provided congressional disapproval of a proposed direct commercial arms sales to Israel as Israeli citizens were enduring a barrage of 4,300 rockets from Palestinian terrorists; Whereas, on July 15, 2023, Representative Jayapal stated the following to a group of pro-Palestinian protestors: Hey guys, can I say something? Can I say something as somebody that’s been in the streets and has participated in a lot of demonstrations? I want you to know that we have been fighting to make it clear that Israel is a racist state, that the Palestinian people deserve self-determination and autonomy, that the dream of a two-state solution is slipping away from us, that it does not even feel possible. ; Whereas, in 2000, after Yasser Arafat rejected a Palestinian state, which would have included East Jerusalem as a tentative new capital as well as the concession of the Gaza Strip and virtually all of the Judea and Samaria Area, the Palestinians launched the Second Intifada and killed over a thousand Israeli citizens; Whereas, in 2008, Israel offered the Palestinians a state on terms similar to the 2000 proposal, but with additional territorial concessions; Whereas, despite repeated Palestinian terrorist attacks against both Israelis and Americans alike, Israel’s numerous offers of peace indicate its unwavering willingness to work in good faith; Whereas antisemitic tropes attacking Israel as a racist or an apartheid state only serve to falsify the historical record and justify continued terrorist attacks against Israeli citizens