VIDEO: Rosen Gives Major Speech on Antisemitism, Bipartisan Bill to Combat it at the Federal Level

Watch Senator Rosen's full remarks HERE.

WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) gave a major speech on the Senate floor to talk about the rise of antisemitism in the U.S. and her comprehensive, bipartisan Jewish American Security Act. This sweeping bipartisan bill would strengthen federal efforts to fight antisemitism - including in U.S. academic settings, at Jewish communal institutions, and online.

Below is a transcript of Senator Rosen's remarks:

Senator Rosen: I am compelled to start my remarks today by highlighting absolutely horrible things that were posted by someone who wants to serve as a Member of Congress and who is allegedly a member of the Democratic Party.

Running for a House seat in Texas, she said she wanted to "turn an ICE detention Center into a prison for American Zionists."

Yes, you heard that right.

And while this is clear and direct antisemitism that everyone - on both sides - have rightfully called out, it's not the first time that she's shown herself to be an antisemite.

Earlier this month, it was reported that she posted a video where she talked about the "Jews who own Hollywood" as members of "the Synagogue of Satan."

I called it out right away, but - perhaps because this was not as overt as calling for putting Jews in internment camps - it did not get the same overwhelming condemnation as her more recent comments.

Similarly, there was a Republican Member of Congress in Kentucky who lost his primary election just last night and made a joke in his concession speech that his opponent was "in Tel Aviv" simply because he is a strong supporter of Israel.

It similarly did not get an avalanche of condemnation.

Mr. President, there lies the problem.

It usually starts with a "joke," a slur, a comparison. It starts with what might be called "casual" acts of antisemitism, that can be just easy to brush off.

If left unchecked, this rhetoric can manifest into overt acts, like the vandalism of Jewish institutions and houses of worship, threats and verbal abuse meant to intimidate Jewish communities, and so on, and so on, and so on.

If those acts are left unchecked, the next and final step is physical violence: beating up Jewish college students, arson and destruction of Jewish institutions, and horrifically, the murder of Jewish individuals.

These are patterns that are starting to emerge once again.

Over the last decade, antisemitism has been on the rise. Year after year we're seeing record numbers of antisemitic incidents - especially after the October 7th terrorist attack in Israel.

According to an ADL report released a few weeks ago, 2025 was the third-highest year for antisemitic incidents since the ADL began collecting data, and physical assaults against Jews were higher in 2025 than ever before.

Just think about that, physical assaults against Jews were at the highest since ADL began tracking this data nearly fifty years ago.

You know, we are fortunate to live in a country that values and protects our freedom to express our beliefs - with our words, through acts of peaceful protest, and at the ballot box. But it does not protect or condone acts of violence or incitement of violence.

Surely, we can all recognize that political and ideological disagreements and differences never, never ever, justify hatred or violence.

We all must agree that the intimidation, discrimination, violence, and even murder of Jews is just plain wrong and unacceptable.

As one of only a few Jewish women to ever serve in the United States Senate, and as the first and only former synagogue president in the Senate, for me, this distinction is deeply personal.

This work is not abstract.

As a Jewish American, I - too - have faced instances of hate, where I was targeted simply because I was Jewish.

When I was just a little girl, about two years old, my family took a trip to Florida.

My mom had me in the hotel pool and, out of nowhere, a lifeguard told my mom to get me out of the pool because I was "dirty."

My mom was confused, she was kind of taken aback, she looked at the lifeguard and said she had just given me a bath, I was clean - she was clearly confused by what the lifeguard had told her.

Then, the lifeguard told my mom what he really meant… I was dirty because I was Jewish. "Get that dirty little Jewish girl out of the pool."

My mom didn't say another word.

She scooped me up, she packed up our stuff, and we left. I know she never brought me back to that pool. In fact, my parents switched us to another hotel.

I know this story so well because my mother told it over and over and over again as a life-changing moment for her. I heard my parents recall the pain throughout my entire life.

It stayed with them.

The hurt. The humiliation. The shame.

And as I got older, and now my parents are gone, that story stays with me, too.

And if you think becoming a United States Senator puts a stop to those attacks, then I want to tell you that you're sadly mistaken.

A few years ago, a man called my office and said some very vile things. He threatened my life and, among other things, he promised to, "finish what Hitler started."

Thanks to the swift work of law enforcement, and I am grateful for law enforcement, this man is now behind bars.

But if he thought that he would intimidate me and force me to be quiet, the effect was quite the opposite, because here I am. Here I am.

He fueled my passion to continue working across party lines in the United States Senate to raise awareness and fight back against anti-Jewish bigotry.

That's why I've been working for the better part of a year with my friend James Lankford on our bipartisan Jewish American Security Act, which we introduced yesterday, to take sweeping action to combat antisemitism at the federal level.

This comprehensive bill will help keep Jewish students safe, help secure community institutions, and help fight antisemitism online.

It will protect Jewish students by establishing a new position - an Antisemitism Coordinator at the Department of Education - to lead efforts to combat antisemitism. It will create a comprehensive Title VI infrastructure on college campuses, and it will make sure that campus hate crime data actually shows all of us who is being attacked and who is being threatened.

This bill will protect Jewish communal institutions - houses of worship, community centers - by making a historic investment of one billion dollars towards the Nonprofit Security Grant Program to keep our houses of worship safe.

This bill will also make a series of long overdue reforms to this program to make sure it actually works for at-risk institutions.

And this bill will combat rising antisemitism online by requiring transparency from social media companies about how they treat antisemitic content, including instances of such content, how much antisemitic content was promoted or recommended by their platform, whether such content was linked to an inauthentic account, and consider it an FTC violation if they fail to provide this information.

I know the road ahead for this legislation will be long, but I am hopeful that my colleagues on both sides of the aisle will provide their support, because at the end of the day, we can all agree that Jewish Americans deserve to be treated - and to be safe - treated with respect the same as any other American.

But at its core, this is more than just about policy.

It is about people. It is about dignity. It is about ensuring that no child, no family, no little girl like I was at a public swimming pool, had to experience what I did, and my family did, or even worse.

I often think back to that little girl at the pool. She's still there.

And I think about the world I want for her.

A world where she is not told she is less than for being Jewish.

A world where she is not excluded from activities because of her faith.

A world where she is safe, respected, and proud of who she is.

I have a daughter, and that's the world I'm creating and hoping for for her, and for all the other children in this world as well.

And this bill will go a long way in helping make a difference and in making that world a reality.

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