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Department of the Palestine Liberation Organization, en-
couraged 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 Sec-
retary-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 sui-
cide 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 con-
trary to United Nations Secretary-General Annan’s dec-
laration 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 Or-
ganization (UNESCO), the anti-Israel and anti-American 
rhetoric was so offensive that United States Secretary of 
State Colin Powell withdrew the United States delega-
tion, 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 Commis-
sioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson stated that 
there was ‘‘horrible anti-Semitism present’’; 
Whereas, over the objections of the United States, the Euro-
pean 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 esti-
mated 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 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) condemns the glorification of terrorism and 
the continuing anti-Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric 
at the United Nations; 
(2) calls on the Secretary General of the United 
Nations to— 
(A) officially and publicly condemn anti- 
Semitic statements in all United Nations meet-
ings; 
(B) establish and enforce policies to hold 
accountable any United Nations official or em-
ployee who makes such statements; and 
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(C) further develop and implement edu-
cation awareness programs about the Holocaust 
throughout the world, as part of an effort to 
combat the global rise in anti-Semitism; 
(3) calls on the Secretary of State to secure 
adoption of a United Nations General Assembly Res-
olution implementing procedures at the United Na-
tions to hold accountable member states that make 
anti-Semitic or incendiary statements, including by 
suspending the membership privileges of such mem-
ber states; 
(4) calls on the President to direct the United 
States Permanent Representative to the United Na-
tions to use the voice, vote, and influence of the 
United States to prevent the use of the United Na-
tions regular budget to support the planned 2009 
Durban Review Conference and to withhold a pro-
portional amount of United States contributions to 
the United Nations should the Durban Review Con-
ference proceed as planned; and 
(5) urges the adoption and pursuit of the poli-
cies described in paragraphs (1) through (4) and 
other policies to promote reform in the United Na-
tions that will— 
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(A) bring greater accountability, trans-
parency, and regulation to the United Nations; 
and 
(B) censure member states that glorify ter-
rorism or engage in intolerance. 
Æ 
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