I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2232 
To ensure accountability at the United Nations and its specialized agencies 
and to promote reform and limit anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias 
at the United Nations. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 28, 2017 
Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN (for herself, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Ms. GRANGER, 
Mr. CHABOT, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. ROSKAM, Mr. YOHO, 
Mr. WEBER of Texas, Mr. MEADOWS, Mr. ZELDIN, Mrs. WAGNER, Mr. 
BILIRAKIS, and Mr. DESANTIS) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To ensure accountability at the United Nations and its spe-
cialized agencies and to promote reform and limit anti- 
Semitism and anti-Israel bias at the United Nations. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Promoting Equality and Accountability at the United 
Nations Act of 2017’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents is 
as follows: 
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Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Definitions. 
TITLE I—LIMITATIONS RELATING TO THE UNITED NATIONS RE-
LIEF AND WORKS AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES IN THE 
NEAR EAST (UNRWA) 
Sec. 101. Findings. 
Sec. 102. Limitations relating to UNRWA funding. 
Sec. 103. Sense of Congress. 
TITLE II—LIMITATIONS RELATING TO THE UNITED NATIONS 
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL AND THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN 
RIGHTS OFFICE OF THE HIGH COMMISSIONER 
Sec. 201. Findings. 
Sec. 202. Limitations relating to the United Nations Human Rights Council 
and the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High 
Commissioner membership and funding. 
Sec. 203. Sense of Congress. 
Sec. 204. Statement of policy. 
TITLE III—STATUS OF PALESTINIAN ENTITIES AT THE UNITED 
NATIONS 
Sec. 301. Findings. 
Sec. 302. Reaffirmation of United States policy regarding the status of Pales-
tinian entities at the United Nations, its specialized agencies 
or its affiliated organizations. 
Sec. 303. Restriction regarding participation in the United Nations, its special-
ized agencies or its affiliated organizations. 
Sec. 304. Statement of policy. 
TITLE IV—ANTI-SEMITISM AT THE UNITED NATIONS 
Sec. 401. Anti-Semitism at the United Nations. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 
Committee on Appropriations, and the Com-
mittee on Oversight and Government Reform of 
the House of Representatives; and 
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(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations, 
the Committee on Appropriations, and the 
Committee on Homeland Security and Govern-
mental Affairs of the Senate. 
(2) FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.—The 
term ‘‘foreign terrorist organization’’ means an or-
ganization designated as a foreign terrorist organiza-
tion by the Secretary of State in accordance with 
section 219(a) of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act (8 U.S.C. 1189(a)). 
(3) EMPLOYEE.—The term ‘‘employee’’ means 
an individual who is employed in the general serv-
ices, professional staff, or senior management of the 
United Nations, including consultants, contractors, 
and subcontractors. 
(4) GENERAL ASSEMBLY.—The term ‘‘General 
Assembly’’ means the General Assembly of the 
United Nations. 
(5) MEMBER
STATE.—The term ‘‘Member 
State’’ means a Member State of the United Na-
tions. Such term is synonymous with the term 
‘‘country’’. 
(6) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of State. 
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(7) SECRETARY-GENERAL.—The term ‘‘Sec-
retary-General’’ means the Secretary-General of the 
United Nations. 
(8) SECURITY COUNCIL.—The term ‘‘Security 
Council’’ means the Security Council of the United 
Nations. 
(9) UNITED
NATIONS
ENTITY.—The term 
‘‘United Nations entity’’ means any United Nations 
agency, commission, conference, council, court, de-
partment, forum, fund, institute, office, organiza-
tion, partnership, program, subsidiary body, tri-
bunal, trust, university or academic body, related or-
ganization or subsidiary body, wherever located, that 
flies the United Nations flag or is authorized to use 
the United Nations logo. 
(10) UNITED
STATES
CONTRIBUTION.—The 
term ‘‘United States contribution’’ means an as-
sessed or voluntary contribution, whether financial, 
in-kind, or otherwise, from the United States Fed-
eral Government to a United Nations entity, includ-
ing contributions passed through other entities for 
ultimate use by a United Nations entity. 
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TITLE 
I—LIMITATIONS 
RELAT-
ING TO THE UNITED NATIONS 
RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY 
FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES 
IN THE NEAR EAST (UNRWA) 
SEC. 101. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) The total annual budget of the United Na-
tions Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refu-
gees in the Near East (UNRWA), including its core 
programs, emergency activities, and special projects, 
exceeds $1,500,000,000. 
(2) UNRWA employs over 33,000 staff to sup-
port 5,000,000 individuals in the West Bank, Gaza, 
Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, while the United Na-
tions High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 
employs one-third the staff size of UNRWA, with 
just over 10,000 staff to support over 60,000,000 
‘‘refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced per-
sons (IDPs), returnees (refugees and IDPs), state-
less persons, and others of concern to UNHCR’’. 
(3) The United States has long been the largest 
single contributing country to UNRWA. From 1950 
to 2015, the United States has contributed over 
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$5,630,000,000 
to 
UNRWA, 
including 
over 
$380,000,000 in 2015. 
(4) UNRWA staff unions, including the teach-
ers’ union, are frequently controlled by members af-
filiated with Hamas. 
(5) The curriculum of UNRWA schools, which 
use the textbooks of their respective host govern-
ments or authorities, has long contained materials 
that are anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, and supportive of 
violent extremism. 
(6) On July 16, 2014, UNRWA reported that 
it had found 20 missiles in one of its schools in 
Gaza, likely placed there by Hamas, and then re-
turned them to the ‘‘relevant authorities’’ in Gaza, 
territory controlled by Hamas. 
(7) On July 22, 2014, UNRWA reported that 
it had found a second instance in which missiles 
were stockpiled in one of its schools in Gaza. 
(8) On July 29, 2014, UNRWA confirmed that, 
for the third time in less than a month, a stockpile 
of Hamas rockets was found in one of its schools in 
Gaza, establishing a pattern of Hamas weapons 
being stored in UNRWA facilities, and calling into 
question UNRWA’s claim of being caught unawares 
to Hamas’ actions. 
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(9) On July 30, 2014, three Israeli Defense 
Force soldiers were killed in an explosion at a booby- 
trapped UNRWA health clinic, which was housing 
the opening to one of Hamas’ underground tunnels. 
(10) On July 30, 2014, John Ging, head of 
UNRWA from 2006–2011, when asked if Hamas 
has been using human shields and using United Na-
tions schools and hospitals to store weapons and as 
a shelter from which to launch missiles into Israel, 
stated in an interview, ‘‘Yes, the armed groups are 
firing their rockets into Israel from the vicinity of 
UN facilities and residential areas. Absolutely.’’. 
(11) On September 1, 2015, the nongovern-
mental organization, UN Watch, published a report 
which documented 12 different Facebook accounts 
operated by UNRWA officials that openly incite to 
anti-Semitism and violence, including Ahmed Fathi 
Bader, who identified himself as a Deputy School 
Principal at UNRWA and who praised the murder 
of ‘‘a group of collaborators with the Jews’’. 
(12) On October 16, 2015, UN Watch pub-
lished a report entitled ‘‘Report on UNRWA Teach-
ers and Other Officials Inciting Violence & Anti-
semitism’’, identifying an additional 10 UNRWA in-
dividuals that openly incite to anti-Semitism and vio-
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lence, including Hani Al Ramahi, who identified 
himself as a ‘‘Projects Support Assistant at 
UNRWA’’, and who posted an image that encour-
aged Palestinians to ‘‘stab Zionist dogs’’. 
(13) On October 20, 2015, the United Nations 
Secretary-General’s Deputy Spokesman’s office, in 
response to a question regarding the UNRWA alle-
gations raised in the UN Watch reports, stated that 
‘‘in a number of cases so far, the Agency has found 
staff Facebook postings to be in violation of its so-
cial media rules . . . the staff have been subject to 
both remedial and disciplinary action, including sus-
pension and loss of pay. The remaining allegations 
are under assessment.’’. 
(14) On March 2, 2016, UNRWA USA’s Na-
tional Committee communications director, Laila 
Mokhiber, tweeted her support for Israeli Apartheid 
Week, a designated week designed to build support 
for the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanc-
tions (BDS) movement. 
(15) On February 26, 2017, UNRWA an-
nounced that it had suspended Suhail al-Hindi, the 
chairman of the UNRWA Palestinian workers’ union 
in Gaza and the principal of an UNRWA elementary 
school after receiving substantial information that 
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al-Hindi was elected to Hamas’ politburo in a vote 
in early February 2017. 
SEC. 102. LIMITATIONS RELATING TO UNRWA FUNDING. 
Section 301 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
(22 U.S.C. 2221) is amended by striking subsection (c) 
and inserting the following new subsection: 
‘‘(c)(1) WITHHOLDING.—United States contributions 
to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Pal-
estine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), to any suc-
cessor or related entity, or to the regular budget of the 
United Nations for the support of UNRWA or a successor 
entity (through staff positions provided by the United Na-
tions Secretariat or otherwise), may be provided only dur-
ing a period for which a certification described in para-
graph (2) is in effect. 
‘‘(2) CERTIFICATION.—A certification described in 
this paragraph is a written determination by the Secretary 
of State, based on all information available after diligent 
inquiry, and transmitted to the appropriate congressional 
committees along with a detailed description of the factual 
basis therefore, that— 
‘‘(A) no official, employee, consultant, con-
tractor, subcontractor, representative, or affiliate of 
UNRWA— 
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‘‘(i) is a member of a foreign terrorist or-
ganization; 
‘‘(ii) has propagated, disseminated, or in-
cited anti-American, anti-Israel, or anti-Semitic 
rhetoric or propaganda; or 
‘‘(iii) has used any UNRWA resources, in-
cluding publications or web sites, to propagate 
or disseminate political materials, including po-
litical rhetoric regarding the Israeli-Palestinian 
conflict; 
‘‘(B) no UNRWA school, hospital, clinic, other 
facility, or other infrastructure or resource is being 
used by a foreign terrorist organization for oper-
ations, planning, training, recruitment, fundraising, 
indoctrination, communications, sanctuary, storage 
of weapons or other materials, or as an access point 
to any underground tunnel network, or any other 
purposes; 
‘‘(C) UNRWA is subject to comprehensive fi-
nancial audits by an internationally recognized third 
party independent auditing firm and has imple-
mented an effective system of vetting and oversight 
to prevent the use, receipt, or diversion of any 
UNRWA resources by any foreign terrorist organiza-
tion or members thereof; 
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‘‘(D) no UNRWA-funded school or educational 
institution uses textbooks or other educational mate-
rials that propagate or disseminate anti-American, 
anti-Israel, or anti-Semitic rhetoric, propaganda or 
incitement; 
‘‘(E) no recipient of UNRWA funds or loans is 
a member of a foreign terrorist organization; and 
‘‘(F) UNRWA holds no accounts or other affili-
ations with financial institutions that the United 
States deems or believes to be complicit in money 
laundering and terror financing. 
‘‘(3) RECERTIFICATION; EFFECTIVE PERIOD.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date on which the Secretary transmits to 
the appropriate congressional committees an initial 
certification under paragraph (2), and every 180 
days thereafter— 
‘‘(i) the Secretary shall transmit to the ap-
propriate congressional committees a recertifi-
cation that the conditions described in para-
graph (2) are continuing to be met; or 
‘‘(ii) if the Secretary is unable to make 
such a recertification, the Secretary shall trans-
mit to the appropriate congressional committees 
a report that contains the reasons therefor. 
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‘‘(B) EFFECTIVE
PERIOD.—An initial certifi-
cation under paragraph (2) or a recertification 
under subparagraph (A) shall be effective for the ap-
plicable 180-day period or until the Secretary re-
ceives information rendering that certification or re-
certification factually inaccurate, whichever occurs 
first. In the event that a certification or recertifi-
cation becomes ineffective, the Secretary shall 
promptly transmit to the appropriate congressional 
committees a description of any information that 
precludes the renewal or continuation of the certifi-
cation or recertification. 
‘‘(4) LIMITATION.—During a period for which a cer-
tification described in paragraph (2) is in effect, the 
United States may make contributions to UNRWA on an 
annual basis in an amount that does not exceed the lesser 
of— 
‘‘(A) the highest amount contributed to the 
budget of UNRWA by a member country of the 
League of Arab States for the same year; or 
‘‘(B) the amount that is equal to 22 percent of 
the total budget of UNRWA for the same year. 
‘‘(5) OBLIGATION.—During a period for which a cer-
tification in paragraph (2) is not in effect, amounts that 
would otherwise be made available for contribution to 
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UNRWA in accordance with paragraph (4) are authorized 
to be made available for contributions to the United Na-
tions High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). 
Amounts made available in this paragraph are in addition 
to any other amounts made available under any other pro-
vision of law. 
‘‘(6) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection— 
‘‘(A) the term ‘foreign terrorist organization’ 
means an organization designated as a foreign ter-
rorist organization by the Secretary of State in ac-
cordance with section 219(a) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189(a)); and 
‘‘(B) the term ‘United States contribution’ 
means an assessed or voluntary contribution, wheth-
er financial, in-kind, or otherwise, from the United 
States Federal Government to a United Nations en-
tity, including contributions passed through other 
entities for ultimate use by a United Nations enti-
ty.’’. 
SEC. 103. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) the President and the Secretary of State 
should lead a high-level diplomatic effort to encour-
age other responsible nations to withhold contribu-
tions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agen-
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cy for Palestine Refugees in the Near East 
(UNRWA), to any successor or related entity, or to 
the regular budget of the United Nations for the 
support of UNRWA or a successor entity (through 
staff positions provided by the United Nations Sec-
retariat or otherwise) until UNRWA has met the 
conditions listed in subparagraphs (A) through (F) 
of section 301(c)(2) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
1961 (as added by section 3 of this Act); 
(2) citizens of recognized states should be re-
moved from UNRWA’s jurisdiction; 
(3) UNRWA’s definition of a ‘‘Palestine ref-
ugee’’ should be changed to that used for a refugee 
by the Office of the United Nations High Commis-
sioner for Refugees; and 
(4) in order to alleviate the suffering of Pales-
tinian refugees, responsibility for those refugees 
should be fully transferred to the Office of the 
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. 
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TITLE II—LIMITATIONS RELAT-
ING TO THE UNITED NATIONS 
HUMAN 
RIGHTS 
COUNCIL 
AND THE UNITED NATIONS 
HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE OF 
THE HIGH COMMISSIONER 
SEC. 201. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) Since its establishment in 2006, the United 
Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has 
failed to meaningfully promote the protection of 
internationally recognized human rights. 
(2) The UNHRC agenda contains a permanent 
item for criticism of the democratic, Jewish State of 
Israel, but no permanent items criticizing any other 
state or non-state actor. 
(3) Since 2006, the UNHRC has a largely dis-
proportionate number of resolutions focused on criti-
cizing Israel, passing nearly 70 resolutions con-
demning Israel, more than the combined total of all 
other country-specific condemnatory resolutions. 
(4) In 2008, the Bush administration voted 
against the establishment of the UNHRC and later 
announced it would withhold United States funding 
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to the United Nations regular budget equivalent to 
the United States share of the UNHRC budget. 
(5) In March 2009, reversing the previous ad-
ministration’s policy, the Obama administration an-
nounced that the United States would run for a seat 
on the UNHRC, winning a seat in May 2009. 
(6) On July 23, 2014, the UNHRC adopted a 
resolution regarding Gaza and the West Bank. The 
resolution contained over 1,700 words criticizing 
Israel for supposed human rights violations in Gaza, 
yet does not mention Hamas, the designated foreign 
terrorist organization responsible for using Pales-
tinian children, women, and men as human shields 
and launching thousands of rockets indiscriminately 
into Israeli civilian populations, even once. 
(7) In 2016, the UNHRC had 29 Members 
rated ‘‘Not Free’’ or only ‘‘Partly Free’’ by Freedom 
House in its 2015 Freedom in the World report— 
meaning 62 percent of the body’s membership failed 
to meet the standards of a free society. 
(8) In October 2016, the United Nations Gen-
eral Assembly elected 14 countries to the UNHRC, 
including some of the world’s worst human rights 
abusers: Cuba, China, and Saudi Arabia. 
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(9) On March 24, 2016, the UNHRC adopted 
a resolution that allowed for the creation of a ‘‘data-
base’’ of all businesses that do business in or with 
‘‘the settlements’’, effectively establishing a blacklist 
of entities and giving support to the BDS movement 
and its supporters. 
(10) The United Nations Office of the High 
Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) serves 
as the Secretariat of the UNHRC, supporting the 
Council’s work, providing staffing and recommenda-
tions to the Council. 
SEC. 202. LIMITATIONS RELATING TO THE UNITED NA-
TIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL AND THE 
UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE OF 
THE HIGH COMMISSIONER MEMBERSHIP AND 
FUNDING. 
(a) FUNDING PROHIBITION.—No funding from the 
United States Government, including assessed, voluntary, 
or in-kind contributions, may be made available to support 
the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) or 
the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for 
Human Rights (OHCHR) until after the Secretary cer-
tifies to the appropriate congressional committees that— 
(1) participation in the UNHRC is in the na-
tional interest of the United States; 
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(2) the UNHRC has removed ‘‘Human rights 
situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab terri-
tories’’ and any other specific item targeted at the 
State of Israel as permanent items on the Council’s 
agenda or programme of work; 
(3) the UNHRC does not include a Member 
State— 
(A) subject to sanctions by the Security 
Council; 
(B) under a Security Council-mandated in-
vestigation for human rights abuses; 
(C) the government of which the Secretary 
of State has determined, for purposes of section 
6(j) of the Export Administration Act of 1979 
(as continued in effect pursuant to the Inter-
national Emergency Economic Powers Act), 
section 40 of the Arms Export Control Act, sec-
tion 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
1961, or other provision of law, is a government 
that has repeatedly provided support for acts of 
international terrorism; 
(D) which the President has designated as 
a country of particular concern for religious 
freedom under section 402(b) of the Inter-
national Religious Freedom Act of 1998; or 
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(E) designated by the Department of State 
as a ‘‘Tier 3’’ country pursuant to section 
110(b)(1)(C) of the Trafficking in Victims Pro-
tection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7107(b)(1)(C)) 
as a Tier 3 country; and 
(4) the percentage of United States citizens em-
ployed at the senior level in each of the OHCHR’s 
four major divisions—the Research and Right to De-
velopment Division (RRDD), the Human Rights 
Treaties Division (HRTD), the Field Operations and 
Technical Cooperation Division (FOTCD), and the 
Human Rights Council and Special Procedures Divi-
sion (HRCSPD)—is at least equivalent to the per-
centage of the total United States assessed contribu-
tions to the United Nations regular budget. 
(b) ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENT.—The certification 
under subsection (a) shall include an explanation of the 
reasoning behind the certification. 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 90 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the 
Secretary shall submit a report to the appropriate congres-
sional committees that describes— 
(1) the resolutions that were considered in the 
UNHRC during the previous 12 months; 
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(2) steps that have been taken during that 12- 
month period to remove ‘‘Human rights situation in 
Palestine and other occupied Arab territories’’ and 
any other specific item targeted at the State of 
Israel as permanent agenda items for the UNHRC; 
(3) a detailed list of any country currently on, 
or running for a seat on, the UNHRC that meets 
any of the criteria as set out in subsection (a)(3); 
and 
(4) the current employment breakdown by na-
tionality at each of the four major divisions of the 
OHCHR. 
(d) REVERSION OF FUNDS.—Funds appropriated for 
use as a United States contribution to the United Nations 
but withheld from obligation and expenditure pursuant to 
this section shall immediately revert to the United States 
Treasury and shall not be considered arrears to be repaid 
to any United Nations entity. 
SEC. 203. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that the United States 
should use its voice, vote, and influence at the United Na-
tions to work to ensure that the United Nations Human 
Rights Council (UNHRC) takes steps to remove perma-
nent items on its agenda or programme of work which tar-
get or single out a specific country or a specific territory 
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or territories and that the UNHRC does not include a 
Member State that meets any of the criteria described in 
section 202(a)(3). 
SEC. 204. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It shall be the policy of the United States to take 
steps to repeal Resolution A/HRC/31/L.38, which requests 
the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for 
Human Rights to establish a ‘‘database’’ of entities in-
volved with ‘‘settlements’’, which includes the Jewish 
Quarter of Jerusalem and the Western Wall, and to miti-
gate any damage done to Israel and its economy by such 
a blacklist through various means. 
TITLE III—STATUS OF PALES-
TINIAN 
ENTITIES 
AT 
THE 
UNITED NATIONS 
SEC. 301. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) In 1989, the Palestine Liberation Organiza-
tion (PLO) launched an effort to evade direct nego-
tiations for peace with the State of Israel by instead 
pursuing Palestinian membership in international 
organizations, which could imply de facto recognition 
of a Palestinian state by the United Nations. 
(2) The executive branch, with significant sup-
port from Members of Congress, successfully 
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stopped the PLO’s effort by credibly threatening, as 
noted in a May 1, 1989, statement by then-Sec-
retary of State James A. Baker, ‘‘that the United 
States [would] make no further contributions, vol-
untary or assessed, to any organization which makes 
any change in the P.L.O.’s present status as an ob-
server organization’’. 
(3) The United States success over a period of 
decades demonstrated that withholding contributions 
and placing conditions of its payment can result in 
real reforms, stop counterproductive developments, 
and advance U.S. interests at the United Nations. 
(4) In 2011, the United Nations Educational, 
Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 
granted full membership to the Palestinians, trig-
gering United States law that prohibits funding for 
any United Nations organization that grants mem-
bership to the PLO. 
(5) In September 2015 and again in September 
2016, at the United Nations General Assembly, Abu 
Mazen threatened that Palestinian leadership would 
no longer be bound by its signed agreements with 
Israel. 
(6) Palestinian leadership continues its effort to 
evade direct negotiations for peace with the State of 
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Israel by seeking recognition of a Palestinian state 
from foreign governments and in international fo-
rums. 
(7) Further efforts to bypass negotiations and 
to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state, or to ap-
peal to the United Nations or other international fo-
rums or to foreign governments for recognition of a 
Palestinian state of membership or other upgraded 
status for the Palestinian observer mission at those 
forums, or to impose a solution or parameters for 
negotiations, would violate the underlying principles 
of the Oslo Accords, the Road Map, and other rel-
evant Middle East peace process efforts. 
SEC. 302. REAFFIRMATION OF UNITED STATES POLICY RE-
GARDING THE STATUS OF PALESTINIAN EN-
TITIES AT THE UNITED NATIONS, ITS SPE-
CIALIZED AGENCIES, OR ITS AFFILIATED OR-
GANIZATIONS. 
Congress hereby reaffirms that it is the law of the 
United States to prohibit the use of United States tax-
payer dollars for certain assessed or voluntary contribu-
tions to the United Nations or its specialized agencies re-
garding the status of the Palestinians at the United Na-
tions or its specialized agencies, including under section 
414 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal 
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Years 1990 and 1991 (Public Law 101–246) and section 
410 of Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 
1994 and 1995 (Public Law 103–236). 
SEC. 303. RESTRICTION REGARDING PARTICIPATION IN 
THE 
UNITED 
NATIONS, 
ITS 
SPECIALIZED 
AGENCIES OR ITS AFFILIATED ORGANIZA-
TIONS. 
The United States shall not make available any 
United States Government official to serve in any capacity 
as a representative to any United Nations specialized 
agency or affiliated organization which has granted full 
membership as a state to any organization or group that 
does not have the internationally recognized attributes of 
statehood. 
SEC. 304. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It is the policy of the United States to oppose the 
recognition of a Palestinian state by any United Nations 
entity, or any upgrade, including full membership or the 
accession to any treaty or agreement, in the status of the 
Palestinians at the United Nations, the Palestine Libera-
tion Organization, the Palestinian Authority, or any other 
Palestinian administrative organization or governing enti-
ty, at any United Nations entity, prior to the achievement 
of a final peace agreement negotiated between and agreed 
to by Israel and the Palestinians. 
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TITLE IV—ANTI-SEMITISM AT 
THE UNITED NATIONS 
SEC. 401. ANTI-SEMITISM AT THE UNITED NATIONS. 
The President shall direct the United States Perma-
nent Representative to the United Nations to use the full 
voice, vote, and influence of the United States at the 
United Nations to make every effort to— 
(1) ensure the issuance and implementation of 
a directive by the Secretary General or the Secre-
tariat, as appropriate, that— 
(A) requires the United Nations and its 
specialized agencies to officially and publicly 
condemn anti-Semitic statements made at any 
session of the United Nations or its specialized 
agencies, or at any other session sponsored by 
the United Nations; 
(B) requires employees of the United Na-
tions and its specialized agencies, programs, 
and funds to be subject to punitive action, in-
cluding immediate dismissal, for making anti- 
Semitic statements or references; 
(C) proposes specific recommendations to 
the General Assembly for the establishment of 
mechanisms to hold accountable employees and 
officials of the United Nations and its special-
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ized agencies, programs and funds, or Member 
States, that make such anti-Semitic statements 
or references in any forum of the United Na-
tions or of its specialized agencies; 
(D) continues to develop and implements 
education awareness programs about the Holo-
caust and anti-Semitism throughout the world, 
as part of an effort to combat intolerance and 
hatred; and 
(E) requires the United Nations Office of 
the High Commissioner for Human Rights 
(OHCHR) to develop programming and other 
measures that address anti-Semitism; 
(2) secure the adoption of a resolution by the 
General Assembly that establishes the mechanisms 
described in paragraph (1)(C); 
(3) secure the adoption of a resolution by the 
General Assembly that deems the Boycott, Divest-
ment, and Sanctions movement against Israel to be 
anti-Semitic in nature; and 
(4) continue working toward further reduction 
of anti-Semitic language and anti-Israel resolutions 
in the United Nations and its specialized agencies, 
programs and funds. 
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