WHEREAS, Across the nation, and in California, there has been a rash of bomb threats targeting Jewish Community Centers, Jewish day schools, synagogues, and other Jewish institutions. In recent years, there has also been a nationwide, including California, increase in discriminatory rhetoric and actions, including cemetery desecrations and verbal and violent anti-Semitic assaults targeting Jewish community members and, specifically, Jewish university students; and

WHEREAS, The Federal Bureau of Investigations, ProPublica, Southern Poverty Law Center, Anti-Defamation League, and other reputable groups have identified evidence of hundreds of incidents of anti-Semitic harassment and intimidation throughout the country targeting individuals perceived to be of Jewish ethnic or religious ancestry, or both; and

WHEREAS, In the last few months, anti-Semitic chants at protests in Charlottesville, Virginia and LGBT parades in Chicago, Illinois, and the vandalism of Temple Israel in Alameda County, California provide the more recent examples of a rise in anti-Semitic behavior in the United States; and

WHEREAS, These anti-Semitic acts appear to come from white-supremacist and neo-Nazi groups, as well as from groups on the far left and right of the political spectrum, and often include anti-Jewish bigotry, including anti-Semitic discrimination rooted in efforts to delegitimize Jewish self-determination or hold Jews collectively responsible for actions by the State of Israel; and

WHEREAS, These incidents occur in the context of a steep rise in anti-Semitism globally, and xenophobic discrimination targeting people of diverse backgrounds based on race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, creed, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, and veteran status; now, therefore, be it