Today, Representatives Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Howard Berman (D-CA), Ted Poe (R-TX), Joe Crowley (D-NY), and Bob Turner (R-NY) introduced bipartisan legislation to ensure recognition of the plight of the nearly one million Jewish refugees who were displaced from countries in the Middle East, North Africa and the Persian Gulf as a result of the Arab-Israeli… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) joined Members of Congress in observing a moment of silence for the 11 Israeli Olympians and coaches murdered by terrorists during the 1972 Munich Olympics, 40 years ago this summer.  Nadler urged the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to open its ceremony tomorrow with a moment of silence to remember those 11 Israelis and the darkest… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) was joined by a bipartisan group of 19 House Members in sending a letter to the Hungarian government calling for prompt and robust prosecution of Nazi war criminal Ladislaus Csizsik-Csatary for heinous crimes perpetuated against thousands of Jews and others during World War II.  The letter, addressed to Hungarian President Janos Ader and Prime… Read more »

Congressmen Dan Lungren (R-CA) and Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) have joined together to introduce H.R. 5904, the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA).  H.R. 5904 would allow victims of terrorism to hold accountable all states who sponsor and finance terrorist activities. It is the House companion to bipartisan legislation in the Senate, S. 1894. “We have joined… Read more »

Speaks at House Foreign Affairs hearing on the case of the Brooklyn man imprisoned without trial in Bolivia Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) reiterated his opposition to continued U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and called for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops.  Speaking in support of Congresswoman Barbara Lee’s (D-CA) amendment – of which he is a cosponsor – to the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2013, Nadler warned that we are wasting… Read more »

Today, Representatives Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) reiterated the need for Israeli authorities to protect the sacred cemetery at Har HaZeitim, the Mount of Olives, which abuts Jerusalem’s Old City.  The Members sent a letter today to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu requesting his help in preventing both desecration of the gravesites and attacks on… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) condemned the shocking anti-Semitic shooting of children at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France.  He issued the following statement: “I am absolutely horrified by the senseless and cowardly act of violence at the Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse, France.  That Jews continue to be targets of hate and violence by lunatics and… Read more »

Responding to a reprehensible statement issued by the American Muslim Council, which suggested that the recent loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia and its entire crew was an act of divine retribution against Israel, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), in a letter today, called on AMC Executive Director Eric Erfan Vickers to repudiate his remarks. The letter to Mr. Vickers, as well as the… Read more »

Below is the prepared floor statement of Rep. Jerrold Nadler on House Joint Resolution 114: Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this resolution.  I take the threat of nuclear weapons in the hands of a hostile and aggressive Iraq very seriously.  On Sept. 11, when my district was attacked, I thanked God the terrorists did not have nuclear weapons. We all want to protect this… Read more »