Expressing profound sorrow over the death of Alexander Michel Odeh.

This resolution (HRES 800) is a formal expression of sorrow by the U.S. House of Representatives over the 1985 murder of Alexander Michel Odeh, a Palestinian-born peace activist, Arab-American civil rights advocate, and educator. It specifically acknowledges Odeh’s work as the Southern California Regional Director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), his role as a poet and Arabic language lecturer, and his death when a pipe bomb killed him at the ADC office in Santa Ana. The resolution extends deep sympathy to his surviving family - wife Norma and daughters Helena, Samya, and Susan - and to the ADC, while directing the House Clerk to send a copy to the family and adjourn in his memory. As a commemorative resolution, it has no policy effect but formally honors Odeh’s legacy and the unresolved nature of his killing.