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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1543 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1543

 Condemning Tucker Carlson's decision to give a platform to Holocaust 
revisionist views for which perpetuating harmful falsehoods, fostering 
   antisemitism, and undermining the fight against hate and bigotry.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 11, 2024

 Mr. Torres of New York submitted the following resolution; which was 
  referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the 
     Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                               RESOLUTION

 
 Condemning Tucker Carlson's decision to give a platform to Holocaust 
revisionist views for which perpetuating harmful falsehoods, fostering 
   antisemitism, and undermining the fight against hate and bigotry.

Whereas, on September 2, 2024, Tucker Carlson hosted a Holocaust revisionist, 
        Darryl Cooper, on his show ``Tucker on X'', during which false claims 
        about the Holocaust and World War II were propagated;
Whereas, over the course of the past decade, Holocaust revisionism has grown in 
        intensity;
Whereas Darryl Cooper falsely claimed that the millions who perished in Nazi 
        concentration camps did so because of humanitarian efforts and a lack of 
        resources, rather than the deliberate starvation and intentional 
        genocide meticulously orchestrated by the Nazi regime;
Whereas Darryl Cooper, in his words, presented the hyperbolic assessment that 
        Hitler launched a war in the Soviet East in 1941 and was completely 
        unprepared to deal with the millions of prisoners-of-war, throwing 
        millions into camps, and resulted in the deaths of millions;
Whereas Darryl Cooper points to letters in July 1941 from ``commandants in these 
        makeshift camps'' warning the Nazi German High Command that ``[Nazi 
        Germany] can't feed these people'' and instead, he claims one Nazi 
        commander suggested it be ``more humane to just finish them off quickly 
        now?'';
Whereas Holocaust revisionism is a dangerous and morally reprehensible 
        distortion of historical truth, disrespecting the memory of over 
        6,000,000 Jewish victims and the countless others murdered by the Nazis 
        during the Holocaust;
Whereas Mr. Cooper inaccurately refers to Operation Barbarossa as an operation 
        undertaken by Nazi Germany without a plan, which in reality resulted in 
        the largest and costliest land offensive in human history, resulting in 
        an estimated 10,000,000 combatants and over 8,000,000 casualties;
Whereas the actual, intentional, deliberate mass starvation that resulted was 
        part of the Hunger Plan of the Generalplan Ost orchestrated by Nazi 
        bureaucrats, such as Herbert Backe and Heinrich Himmler, was approved 
        during the Staatssekretare of May 2, 1941;
Whereas the Nuremburg trials unsealed the economic plan known as Goring's Green 
        Folder, which included the Hunger Plan, outlined a deliberate starvation 
        of over 31,000,000 to nearly 45,000,000 individuals in the Soviet Union, 
        as early December 1940, contrary to Mr. Cooper's interpretation;
Whereas the Hunger Plan outlined a goal of genocidal extermination and 
        enslavement of Slavic and Eastern European Jewish populations;
Whereas Nazi Germany was not self-sufficient and relied on foreign imports, had 
        depleted reserve grain stocks;
Whereas Hitler credited the Allied blockade of Germany during World War I to 
        Germany's defeat, and prioritized essential preservation of food 
        supplies at the cost of human lives;
Whereas the deliberate starvation campaign resulted in an estimated 4,200,000 
        starved between 1941-1944, with the highest rates of starvation among 
        Jewish populations;
Whereas the Nazi Army Group Center created as part of Operation Barbarossa, 
        enforced a prohibition on Jews to purchase eggs, butter, milk, meat, and 
        fruit;
Whereas additionally, caloric intake for Jews was limited to 420 calories a day;
Whereas over 2,000,000 deaths were reported by February 1942 as a result of the 
        deliberate policy of starvation;
Whereas comparatively, French, Belgian, and Dutch prisoners-of-war who died as a 
        result of starvation was extremely low due to Nazi Germany implementing 
        an embargo on the Dutch, over 22,000 died in the Dutch Famine of 1944-
        1945;
Whereas Nazi Germany's deliberate starvation plans led to seizing Ukrainian 
        granaries and resulted in over 1,000,000 deaths in the Siege of 
        Leningrad and an estimated 80,000 deaths in Kharkov and Kyiv;
Whereas nearly 300,000 deaths resulted from the Great Famine in Greece, and over 
        600,000 deaths in Poland largely impacting Jews in ghettos and ethnic 
        Poles;
Whereas Tucker Carlson's platforming of these harmful views represents an 
        endorsement of Holocaust denial, which emboldens antisemitism and 
        undermines efforts to combat hate and misinformation;
Whereas Tucker Carlson's failure to critically challenge or denounce these 
        falsehoods on his platform contributes to the spread of Nazi propaganda 
        and historical revisionism, posing a direct threat to historical truth 
        and the dignity of Holocaust survivors;
Whereas Holocaust revisionism and distortion, including intentional efforts to 
        excuse or minimize the impact of the Holocaust, dishonors those who were 
        persecuted and murdered and reinforces the need for advancing accurate 
        Holocaust education globally;
Whereas antisemitism is on the rise globally, where there has been an increase 
        of over 140 percent in 2023, according to the Anti-Defamation League;
Whereas trafficking in Holocaust revisionism further fuels the dangerous spread 
        of hate and discrimination; and
Whereas protecting the history of the Holocaust and recognizing and confronting 
        Holocaust denial and distortion is critical to preventing antisemitism: 
        Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) strongly condemns Tucker Carlson's decision to give a 
        platform to Holocaust revisionist views for which perpetuating 
        harmful falsehoods, fostering antisemitism, and undermining the 
        fight against hate and bigotry;
            (2) strongly condemns Holocaust revisionist Darryl Cooper 
        for disingenuously mischaracterizing the meticulously detailed 
        plans by Nazi officials to create an artificial famine and 
        deliberately starve millions of Eastern European Jews, Poles, 
        Slavs, and Indigenous minorities;
            (3) commits to continue to raise awareness and act to 
        eradicate the continuing scourge of antisemitism in the United 
        States and abroad;
            (4) honors the legacy of the survivors of the Holocaust; 
        and
            (5) recommits to combating all forms of antisemitism.
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