Congress: 118 · Status: active · Israel/Palestine classification: pro-Palestine
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Sponsor: Durbin, Richard J. (D-Illinois)
This resolution recognizes the loss of Wadee Alfayoumi and that the United States has zero tolerance for hate crimes, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab discrimination. It also recognizes that freedom of speech and peaceful protest are constitutionally protected.
This resolution honors Wadee Alfayoumi, a 6-year-old Palestinian-American killed in Illinois in a hate crime targeting his Palestinian and Muslim identity. It affirms that the U.S. has zero tolerance for hate crimes, Islamophobia, antisemitism, and anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab discrimination, and reaffirms constitutional protections for free speech and peaceful protest.
The resolution explicitly recognizes anti-Palestinian discrimination as a hate crime category worthy of federal acknowledgment—a rare congressional statement in a chamber where Israel-related resolutions typically focus on antisemitism alone. The inclusion of free speech protections signals concern that hate crime frameworks not be used to suppress legitimate political speech about Palestine.