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 fam-
ily 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 Com-
mission 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 re-
peated 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 group-
ing; 
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 Con-
ference Against Racism were undermined by hateful anti- 
Jewish 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 ac-
knowledged at the first United Nations-sponsored con-
ference 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 anti- 
Semitism and ‘‘recognized with deep concern the overall 
rise in instances of intolerance and violence directed 
against members of many religious communities . . . in-
cluding . . . anti-Semitism . . . ’’; 
Whereas in 2005, the United Nations held an unprecedented 
session to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the lib-
eration 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 resolu-
tions 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 
Resolved, That— 
(1) the House of Representatives—