Mr. Speaker. I rise to join my colleagues in support of House Concurrent Resolution 107. on behalf of Ethiopian Jews. House Concurrent Resolution 107 instructs the President to express the grave concern of Congress and the American people for the welfare and rights of the Falashas. to maintain dialog with the Ethiopian Government. and to assist the Falashas free emigration. Ethiopian Jews are members of one of the oldest and most devout religious communities. Yet the majority of Ethiopians. unfamiliar with the practice of Judaism. regard the Falashas as an alien people. as their name. meaning "stranger" implies. In 1982. the Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations held hearings on religious persecution as a violation of human rights.
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The majority of Ethiopians regard the Falashas as an alien people.