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110TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 939 

Condemning the glorification of terrorism and the continuing anti-Israel and 

anti-Semitic rhetoric at the United Nations. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 23, 2008 

Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN (for herself, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. CANTOR, Mr. 

RAMSTAD, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. PENCE, Mr. MARSHALL, 

Mr. FORTUN ̃O, Mr. SHIMKUS, Mr. GALLEGLY, Ms. BERKLEY, Mr. BACHUS, Mr. COHEN, Mr. ROYCE, Mr. CHABOT, and Mr. LAMBORN) submitted 

the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign 

Affairs 

RESOLUTION 

Condemning the glorification of terrorism and the continuing 

anti-Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric at the United Nations. 

Whereas Israel continues to be the Member State most frequently condemned within the United Nations; 

Whereas on December 19, 2007, Palestinian Authority representative to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, submitted a list of ‘‘martyrs’’ to be mourned, including 

Hosam Abu Habl and Jihad Mustafa Dhaher, two senior 

members of the terrorist organization Islamic Jihad; 

Whereas past letters submitted by the Palestinian Authority 

have listed as ‘‘martyrs’’, among other terrorists, Ayman 


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Daloul and Hussain Ahel, two of the men responsible for 

the kidnaping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit; 

Whereas Mr. Mansour has repeatedly decried Israeli defensive 

actions while making no mention of the ongoing rocket 

attacks against the cities of Sderot and Ashkelon; 

Whereas on November 29, 2007, the 60th anniversary of the 

United Nation’s resolution to partition Palestine into 

Jewish and Arab states, the United Nations marked only 

a ‘‘Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People’’, flying 

a Palestinian flag but not an Israeli one; 

Whereas on November 29, 2007, Palestinian leader Mahmoud 

Abbas delivered a statement through Yasser Abed Rabbo 

on letterhead that bore a logo of Palestine without the 

Jewish State of Israel; 

Whereas on November 29, 2007, Mr. Paul Badji, Chairman 

of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable 

rights of the Palestinian People, lauded the efforts of terrorism by proudly stating, ‘‘It was 20 years ago that the 

Palestinians as a people stood up to the occupation, and 

the world learned a new word—intifada.’’; 

Whereas on October 29, 2007, Palestinian militants fired 

mortars into Israel from the yard of a elementary school 

run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency 

(UNRWA) without any official reprisal from the United 

Nations; 

Whereas on November 29, 2006, the United Nations Trusteeship Council hosted panels that advocated the right of return of 7,000,000 to 8,000,000 refugees, without reference to Jewish refugees from Arab lands; 

Whereas on November 29, 2006, at the United Nations public headquarters, Farouk Kaddoumi, head of the Political 


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Department of the Palestine Liberation Organization, encouraged Palestinian ‘‘resistance’’ against Israel and 

stated that the ‘‘land is ours and we shall not cede it’’; 

Whereas on November 29, 2005, a ‘‘map of Palestine’’ was 

displayed in the presence of the three highest-ranking 

United Nations officials, including United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, that was dated 1948 and did 

not include the Jewish State of Israel; 

Whereas on November 29, 2005, the President of the United 

Nations Security Council, the President of the United 

Nations General Assembly, and the Secretary-General of 

the United Nations commemorated the terrorism of suicide bombers by rising to ‘‘observe a minute of silence of 

all those who have given their lives for the cause of the 

Palestinian people’’; 

Whereas allowing such hate speech and intolerance runs contrary to United Nations Secretary-General Annan’s declaration at the June 2004 United Nations Department of 

Public Information Seminar on Anti-Semitism that 

‘‘[The] fight against anti-Semitism must be our fight. 

And Jews everywhere must feel that the United Nations 

is their home too.’’; 

Whereas at the 2001 World Conference against Racism 

(WCAR) in Durban, South Africa, organized by the 

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the anti-Israel and anti-American 

rhetoric was so offensive that United States Secretary of 

State Colin Powell withdrew the United States delegation, stating, ‘‘I know that you do not combat racism by 

conferences that produce declarations containing hateful 

language . . . or that singles out only one country in the 

world, Israel, for censure and abuse.’’; 


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Whereas after the Durban Conference, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson stated that 

there was ‘‘horrible anti-Semitism present’’; 

Whereas, over the objections of the United States, the European Union, and other key Member States, the United 

Nations General Assembly has initiated preparations for 

a Durban Review Conference in 2009 that is proposed to 

be funded from the United Nations’ regular budget, 

which would force the United States to pay for nearly a 

quarter of the total conference cost, preliminarily estimated to be $7,200,000; 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 the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) condemns the glorification of terrorism and 

3 the continuing anti-Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric 

4 at the United Nations; 

5 (2) calls on the Secretary General of the United 

6 Nations to— 

7 (A) officially and publicly condemn anti8 Semitic statements in all United Nations meet9 ings; 

10 (B) establish and enforce policies to hold 

11 accountable any United Nations official or em12 ployee who makes such statements; and 


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1 (C) further develop and implement edu2 cation awareness programs about the Holocaust 

3 throughout the world, as part of an effort to 

4 combat the global rise in anti-Semitism; 

5 (3) calls on the Secretary of State to secure 

6 adoption of a United Nations General Assembly Res7 olution implementing procedures at the United Na8 tions to hold accountable member states that make 

9 anti-Semitic or incendiary statements, including by 

10 suspending the membership privileges of such mem11 ber states; 

12 (4) calls on the President to direct the United 

13 States Permanent Representative to the United Na14 tions to use the voice, vote, and influence of the 

15 United States to prevent the use of the United Na16 tions regular budget to support the planned 2009 

17 Durban Review Conference and to withhold a pro18 portional amount of United States contributions to 

19 the United Nations should the Durban Review Con20 ference proceed as planned; and 

21 (5) urges the adoption and pursuit of the poli22 cies described in paragraphs (1) through (4) and 

23 other policies to promote reform in the United Na24 tions that will— 


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1 (A) bring greater accountability, trans2 parency, and regulation to the United Nations; 

3 and 

4 (B) censure member states that glorify ter5 rorism or engage in intolerance. 

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