The House Foreign Affairs Committee today unanimously adopted a resolution calling on other governments to prevent any further anti-Semitic vandalism or desecrations.
The resolution was submitted by Rep. Barratt O’Hara. Illinois Democrat. Twenty-three members of the committee joined with O’Hara in supporting the proposed resolution. It is expected that the resolution will be adopted by the full House next week and be referred to the Senate as it is a concurrent resolution.
In the resolution, Congress would express “its profound some of indignation and shock at this epidemic of desecration” and call upon “all persons and governments throughout the world to exert their energies to the end that the shameful events shall not recur.”
The resolution noted that a wave of desecration of “places or worship and other sacred sites” had spread through Europe and other parts of the world and that instances had occurred in this country. It said that “if unchecked this wave can only result in grievous moral deterioration and denial of the true spirit of the brotherhood of man.”
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