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109TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 1091 

Condemning in the strongest terms Iran’s commitment to hold an 

international Holocaust denial conference on December 11–12, 2006. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

DECEMBER 5, 2006 

Mr. HASTINGS of Florida (for himself, Mr. HOYER, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. 

ACKERMAN, Mrs. MALONEY, Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas, Ms. 

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. WAXMAN, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. MEEK of 

Florida, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. MCNULTY, Mr. ISRAEL, Mr. NADLER, Mr. 

WEXLER, and Mr. CROWLEY) submitted the following resolution; which 

was referred to the Committee on International Relations 

RESOLUTION 

Condemning in the strongest terms Iran’s commitment to 

hold an international Holocaust denial conference on December 11–12, 2006. 

Whereas Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has expressed his intention to hold an international Holocaust 

denial conference entitled ‘‘Study of Holocaust: A Global 

Perspective’’, to begin on December 11, 2006, in Tehran; 

Whereas the Iranian Government is openly supportive of Holocaust revisionists, who resolve that the systematic statesponsored murder of 6,000,000 Jews and other targeted 

groups by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during 

World War II was either fabricated or exaggerated; 

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Whereas in August 2006, Iran staged a reprehensible international contest of cartoons on the Holocaust, endorsing 

and promoting prevailing anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli 

stereotypes and Holocaust denial; 

Whereas President Ahmadinejad wrote in a letter in July 

2006 to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, ‘‘Is it not a 

reasonable possibility that some countries that had won 

the war (World War II) made up this excuse to constantly embarrass the defeated people . . . to bar their 

progress.’’; 

Whereas on October 26, 2005, in a conference entitled, ‘‘The 

World without Zionism’’, President Ahmadinejad stated 

in a speech that ‘‘Israel must be wiped off the map.’’; 

Whereas thereafter, these anti-Semitic comments were broadly condemned by the United Nations and others, including a measure passed by a unanimous vote of the United 

States House of Representatives on October 28, 2005; 

Whereas President Ahmadinejad’s current intent to host an 

international Holocaust denial conference is only the latest abominable act he has taken in a series of threatening 

and anti-Semitic, Holocaust denial statements and actions since he rose to power; 

Whereas to deny the Holocaust’s occurrence is in itself an act 

of anti-Semitism; 

Whereas one who denies the Holocaust, denies the greatest 

tragedy of the Jewish people and the most extreme act 

of anti-Semitism in history; 

Whereas President Ahmadinejad’s past and present declarations and actions—spewing outrageous anti-Semitic, antiIsrael rhetoric, remaining a primary source of funding, 

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stroy Israel, and openly threatening Israel and the 

United States—prove President Ahmadinejad is on a national crusade of hatred and ultimate destruction against 

Israel and the Western civilized world; 

Whereas President Ahmadinejad’s statements and actions arrive in the midst of Iran’s relentless defiance of the international community by rejecting nuclear nonproliferation 

standards and the latest United Nations Security Council 

demand that Iran immediately halt its efforts to enrich 

uranium; and 

Whereas the longstanding policy of the Iranian regime aimed 

at destroying the democratic State of Israel, highlighted 

by statements made by President Ahmadinejad, underscores the threat posed by a nuclear Iran: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) condemns in the strongest terms Iran’s 

3 commitment to hold an international Holocaust de4 nial conference on December 11–12, 2006, and any 

5 and all vile anti-Semitic statements made by Iranian 

6 President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other Iranian 

7 leaders; 

8 (2) calls on the United Nations to officially and 

9 publicly repudiate all of Iran’s anti-Semitic state10 ments made at such conference and hold accountable 

11 United Nations member states that encourage or 

12 echo such statements; 

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1 (3) calls on the United Nations Security Coun2 cil to strengthen its commitment to taking measures 

3 necessary to prevent Iran from possessing nuclear 

4 power; 

5 (4) further calls on President George W. Bush 

6 to condemn President Ahmadinejad’s stated intent 

7 to hold an international Holocaust denial conference; 

8 (5) reaffirms the United States commitment to 

9 prevent a nuclear Iran; 

10 (6) reaffirms the United States longstanding 

11 friendship and ally in the State of Israel; and 

12 (7) vows to never forget the horrendous murder 

13 of millions in the Holocaust and affirms that such 

14 genocide should never happen again. 

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