{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=06A61E17-770D-42FF-ACB7-DAFE340717ED", "McConnell: America Cannot Ignore Rising Anti-Semitism", "2023-12-19", "2023", "2023-12", "Republican", "Senate", "KY", "Mitch McConnell", "M000355", "www.mcconnell.senate.gov", "mcconnell", "https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding anti-Semitism:\n\n\u201cOn Sunday, Jewish residents of our nation\u2019s capital were subjected to a disturbing episode of anti-Semitic hate.\n\n:As a Torah class at a Washington synagogue concluded and attendees began to leave, they were met on the sidewalk by a man who sprayed them with a foul-smelling substance and yelled, \u2018gas the Jews\u2019 \u2013 all while filming on his cell phone.\n\n\u201cThis is just one example of the reality facing millions of American Jews.\n\n\u201cIn the same weekend, hundreds of synagogues across the country received false bomb threats.\n\n\u201cAnd thousands of incidents of anti-Jewish hatred have cropped up on American soil in the months since October 7th \u2013 a rise that leading watchdogs say is the worst in more than forty years.\n\n\u201cThe brazenness of this hateful deluge is horrifying, by itself.\n\n\u201cBut an even more alarming trend is just how dramatically the moral cancer of identity politics is laying the groundwork for a continued wave of anti-Semitism.\n\n\u201cAccording to one recent poll, a full two-thirds of Americans aged 18-24 agreed with the following statement, \u2018Jews as a class are oppressors and should be treated as oppressors.\u2019 That\u2019s the view of two-thirds of Americans between 18-24.\n\n\u201cThis is the scorched-earth, Marxist nonsense that has quite publicly seized America\u2019s most elite universities.\n\n\u201cAs our former colleague, the President of the University of Florida, put it in a recent column, \u2018In this upside-down system, an oppressor\u2019s speech is violence. Sometimes an oppressor\u2019s silence is violence. But for the oppressed, even violence is just speech.\u2019\n\n\u201cSo Mr. President, I\u2019d like to request unanimous consent to submit President Sasse\u2019s full comments for the record.\n\n\u201cThis is the ideology that is poisoning a new generation. This is the world\u2019s oldest form of hatred.\n\n\u201cAnd we cannot ignore it.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:56:20Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=06A61E17-770D-42FF-ACB7-DAFE340717ED"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6361610032618046, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}