H. Res. 282 

In the House of Representatives, U.S., 

June 7, 2005. 

Whereas the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human 

Rights recognizes that ‘‘the inherent dignity and equal 

and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the 

world’’; 

Whereas United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 

(1975) concluded that ‘‘Zionism is a form of racism and 

racial discrimination’’ and the General Assembly, by a 

vote of 111 to 25, only revoked Resolution 3379 in 1991 

in response to strong leadership by the United States and 

after Israel made its participation in the Madrid Peace 

Conference conditional upon repeal of the resolution; 

Whereas during the 1991 session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, the Syrian Ambassador to the 

United Nations repeated the outrageous ‘‘blood libel’’ 

that Jews allegedly have killed non-Jewish children to 

make unleavened bread for Passover and, despite repeated interventions by the Governments of Israel and 

the United States, this outrageous lie was not corrected 

in the record of the Commission for many months; 

Whereas in March 1997, the Palestinian observer at the 

United Nations Commission on Human Rights made the 

contemptible charge that the Government of Israel had 
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injected 300 Palestinian children with HIV (the human 

immunodeficiency virus, the pathogen that causes AIDS) 

despite the fact that an Egyptian newspaper had printed 

a full retraction to its earlier report of the same charges, 

and the President of the Commission failed to challenge 

this baseless and false accusation despite the request of 

the Government of Israel that he do so; 

Whereas Israel was denied membership in any regional 

grouping of the United Nations until the year 2000, 

which prevented it from being a candidate for any elected 

positions within the United Nations system until that 

time, and Israel continues to be denied the opportunity 

to hold a rotating seat on the Security Council and it is 

the only member of the United Nations never to have 

served on the Security Council although it has been a 

member of the organization for 56 years; 

Whereas Israel continues to be denied the opportunity to 

serve as a member of the United Nations Commission on 

Human Rights because it has never been included in a 

slate of candidates submitted by a regional grouping, and 

Israel is currently the only member of the Western and 

Others Group in a conditional status limiting its ability 

to caucus with its fellow members of this regional grouping; 

Whereas the United Nations has permitted itself to be used 

as a battleground for political warfare against Israel led 

by Arab states and others, and 6 of the 10 emergency 

sessions of the United Nations General Assembly have 

been devoted to criticisms of and attacks against Israel; 

Whereas the goals of the 2001 United Nations World Conference Against Racism were undermined by hateful antiJewish rhetoric and anti-Israel political agendas, prompt-
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ing both Israel and the United States to withdraw their 

delegations from the Conference; 

Whereas in 2004, the United Nations Secretary General acknowledged at the first United Nations-sponsored conference on anti-Semitism, that: ‘‘It is clear that we are 

witnessing an alarming resurgence of this phenomenon in 

new forms and manifestations. This time, the world must 

not—cannot—be silent.’’; 

Whereas in 2004, the United Nations General Assembly’s 

Third Committee for the first time adopted a resolution 

on religious tolerance that includes condemnation of antiSemitism and ‘‘recognized with deep concern the overall 

rise in instances of intolerance and violence directed 

against members of many religious communities . . . including . . . anti-Semitism . . . ’’; 

Whereas in 2005, the United Nations held an unprecedented 

session to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp; 

Whereas democratic Israel is annually the object of nearly 

two dozen redundantly critical resolutions in the United 

Nations General Assembly, which rarely adopts resolutions relating to specific countries; and 

Whereas the viciousness with which Israel is attacked and 

discriminated against at the United Nations should not 

be allowed to continue unchallenged: Now, therefore, be 

it 

1 Resolved, That— 

2 (1) the House of Representatives— 
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1 (A) welcomes recent attempts by the 

2 United Nations Secretary General to address 

3 the issue of anti-Semitism; 

4 (B) calls on the United Nations to offi5 cially and publicly condemn anti-Semitic state6 ments made at all United Nations meetings and 

7 hold accountable United Nations member states 

8 that make such statements; and 

9 (C) strongly urges the United Nations 

10 Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organiza11 tion (UNESCO) to develop and implement edu12 cation awareness programs about the Holocaust 

13 throughout the world as part of an effort to 

14 combat the rise in anti-Semitism and racial, re15 ligious, and ethnic intolerance; and 

16 (2) it is the sense of the House of Representa17 tives that— 

18 (A) the President should direct the United 

19 States Permanent Representative to the United 

20 Nations to continue working toward further re21 duction of anti-Semitic language and anti-Israel 

22 resolutions; 

23 (B) the President should direct the Sec24 retary of State to include in the Department of 

25 State’s annual Country Reports on Human 
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1 Rights Practices and annual Report on Inter2 national Religious Freedom information on ac3 tivities at the United Nations and its con4 stituent bodies relating to anti-Semitism by 

5 each of the countries included in these reports; 

6 and 

7 (C) the President should direct the Sec8 retary of State to use projects funded through 

9 the Middle East Partnership Initiative and 

10 United States overseas broadcasts to educate 

11 Arab and Muslim countries about anti-Semi12 tism, religious intolerance, and incitement to vi13 olence. 

Attest: 

Clerk.