Title: Promoting Equality and Accountability at the United Nations Act of 2017
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
Promoting Equality and Accountability at the United Nations Act of 2017
This bill amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to withhold U.S. contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East and funding for the United Nations Human Rights Council or the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) unless the Department of State certifies to Congress that such agencies have no connections to terrorism, anti-American, anti-Israel, or anti-Semitic rhetoric, human trafficking, or abuses of human rights or religious freedoms.
The bill expresses the sense of Congress that responsibility for the Palestinian refugees should be fully transferred to the OHCHR.
The bill reaffirms that it is U.S. law to prohibit the use of taxpayer dollars for certain contributions regarding Palestinian status at the United Nations (U.N.).
It shall be U.S. policy to: (1) repeal Resolution A/HRC/31/L.38, which requests the OHCHR to establish a database of entities involved with settlements, and (2) oppose recognition of a Palestinian state by any U.N. entity prior to the achievement of a final peace agreement negotiated between Israel and the Palestinians.
The United States shall: (1) not make any U.S. government official available to serve as a representative to any U.N. agency that has granted full state membership to any organization that does not have the internationally recognized attributes of statehood; and (2) use it's influence to work toward the reduction of anti-Semitic language and anti-Israel resolutions in the U.N. and its agencies, programs, and funds.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2232 Introduced in House (IH)]

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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.


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                    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

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                                 A BILL


 
  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.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 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:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Definitions.
 TITLE I--LIMITATIONS RELATING TO THE UNITED NATIONS RELIEF 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 
                            Palestinian entities at the United Nations, 
                            its specialized agencies or its affiliated 
                            organizations.
Sec. 303. Restriction regarding participation in the United Nations, 
                            its specialized 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 committees.--The term 
        ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
                    (A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee 
                on Appropriations, and the Committee on Oversight and 
                Government Reform of the House of Representatives; and
                    (B) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the 
                Committee on Appropriations, and the Committee on 
                Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the 
                Senate.
            (2) Foreign terrorist organization.--The term ``foreign 
        terrorist organization'' means an organization designated as a 
        foreign terrorist organization 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 services, 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 Nations. Such term is synonymous with the 
        term ``country''.
            (6) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of State.
            (7) Secretary-general.--The term ``Secretary-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, department, forum, fund, institute, 
        office, organization, partnership, program, subsidiary body, 
        tribunal, trust, university or academic body, related 
        organization 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 assessed or voluntary contribution, 
        whether financial, in-kind, or otherwise, from the United 
        States Federal Government to a United Nations entity, including 
        contributions passed through other entities for ultimate use by 
        a United Nations entity.

 TITLE I--LIMITATIONS RELATING 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 Nations Relief 
        and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees 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 support 5,000,000 
        individuals in the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, 
        while the United Nations 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 persons (IDPs), returnees 
        (refugees and IDPs), stateless 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 $5,630,000,000 to UNRWA, including 
        over $380,000,000 in 2015.
            (4) UNRWA staff unions, including the teachers' union, are 
        frequently controlled by members affiliated with Hamas.
            (5) The curriculum of UNRWA schools, which use the 
        textbooks of their respective host governments 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 returned 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.
            (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 Nations 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 nongovernmental 
        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 published a report 
        entitled ``Report on UNRWA Teachers and Other Officials 
        Inciting Violence & Antisemitism'', identifying an additional 
        10 UNRWA individuals that openly incite to anti-Semitism and 
        violence, including Hani Al Ramahi, who identified himself as a 
        ``Projects Support Assistant at UNRWA'', and who posted an 
        image that encouraged 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 allegations 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 social media 
        rules . . . the staff have been subject to both remedial and 
        disciplinary action, including suspension and loss of pay. The 
        remaining allegations are under assessment.''.
            (14) On March 2, 2016, UNRWA USA's National 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 Sanctions 
        (BDS) movement.
            (15) On February 26, 2017, UNRWA announced 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 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 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 Secretariat or 
otherwise), may be provided only during a period for which a 
certification described in paragraph (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, contractor, 
        subcontractor, representative, or affiliate of UNRWA--
                    ``(i) is a member of a foreign terrorist 
                organization;
                    ``(ii) has propagated, disseminated, or incited 
                anti-American, anti-Israel, or anti-Semitic rhetoric or 
                propaganda; or
                    ``(iii) has used any UNRWA resources, including 
                publications or web sites, to propagate or disseminate 
                political materials, including political 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 operations, 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 financial audits by 
        an internationally recognized third party independent auditing 
        firm and has implemented an effective system of vetting and 
        oversight to prevent the use, receipt, or diversion of any 
        UNRWA resources by any foreign terrorist organization or 
        members thereof;
            ``(D) no UNRWA-funded school or educational institution 
        uses textbooks or other educational materials 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 affiliations 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 
                appropriate congressional committees a recertification 
                that the conditions described in paragraph (2) are 
                continuing to be met; or
                    ``(ii) if the Secretary is unable to make such a 
                recertification, the Secretary shall transmit to the 
                appropriate congressional committees a report that 
                contains the reasons therefor.
            ``(B) Effective period.--An initial certification under 
        paragraph (2) or a recertification under subparagraph (A) shall 
        be effective for the applicable 180-day period or until the 
        Secretary receives information rendering that certification or 
        recertification factually inaccurate, whichever occurs first. 
        In the event that a certification or recertification 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 
        certification or recertification.
    ``(4) Limitation.--During a period for which a certification 
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 certification in 
paragraph (2) is not in effect, amounts that would otherwise be made 
available for contribution to UNRWA in accordance with paragraph (4) 
are authorized to be made available for contributions to the United 
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Amounts made available 
in this paragraph are in addition to any other amounts made available 
under any other provision of law.
    ``(6) Definitions.--In this subsection--
            ``(A) the term `foreign terrorist organization' means an 
        organization designated as a foreign terrorist organization by 
        the Secretary of State in accordance 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, whether financial, in-kind, 
        or otherwise, from the United States Federal Government to a 
        United Nations entity, including contributions passed through 
        other entities for ultimate use by a United Nations entity.''.

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 encourage other responsible 
        nations to withhold contributions to the United Nations Relief 
        and Works Agency 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 Secretariat 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 removed from 
        UNRWA's jurisdiction;
            (3) UNRWA's definition of a ``Palestine refugee'' should be 
        changed to that used for a refugee by the Office of the United 
        Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; and
            (4) in order to alleviate the suffering of Palestinian 
        refugees, responsibility for those refugees should be fully 
        transferred to the Office of the United Nations High 
        Commissioner for Refugees.

   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.

    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 disproportionate 
        number of resolutions focused on criticizing Israel, passing 
        nearly 70 resolutions condemning 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 to the United Nations regular 
        budget equivalent to the United States share of the UNHRC 
        budget.
            (5) In March 2009, reversing the previous administration's 
        policy, the Obama administration announced 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 
        Palestinian 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 General Assembly 
        elected 14 countries to the UNHRC, including some of the 
        world's worst human rights abusers: Cuba, China, and Saudi 
        Arabia.
            (9) On March 24, 2016, the UNHRC adopted a resolution that 
        allowed for the creation of a ``database'' 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 
        recommendations to the Council.

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.

    (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 certifies to the 
appropriate congressional committees that--
            (1) participation in the UNHRC is in the national interest 
        of the United States;
            (2) the UNHRC has removed ``Human rights situation in 
        Palestine and other occupied Arab territories'' 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 investigation 
                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 International Emergency Economic 
                Powers Act), section 40 of the Arms Export Control Act, 
                section 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 International Religious Freedom 
                Act of 1998; or
                    (E) designated by the Department of State as a 
                ``Tier 3'' country pursuant to section 110(b)(1)(C) of 
                the Trafficking in Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 
                U.S.C. 7107(b)(1)(C)) as a Tier 3 country; and
            (4) the percentage of United States citizens employed at 
        the senior level in each of the OHCHR's four major divisions--
        the Research and Right to Development Division (RRDD), the 
        Human Rights Treaties Division (HRTD), the Field Operations and 
        Technical Cooperation Division (FOTCD), and the Human Rights 
        Council and Special Procedures Division (HRCSPD)--is at least 
        equivalent to the percentage of the total United States 
        assessed contributions 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 congressional committees that describes--
            (1) the resolutions that were considered in the UNHRC 
        during the previous 12 months;
            (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 nationality 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 Nations to work to ensure that 
the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) takes steps to remove 
permanent items on its agenda or programme of work which target or 
single out a specific country or a specific territory 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 involved with ``settlements'', which includes the Jewish 
Quarter of Jerusalem and the Western Wall, and to mitigate any damage 
done to Israel and its economy by such a blacklist through various 
means.

    TITLE III--STATUS OF PALESTINIAN ENTITIES AT THE UNITED NATIONS

SEC. 301. FINDINGS.

    Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) In 1989, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) 
        launched an effort to evade direct negotiations 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 support from 
        Members of Congress, successfully stopped the PLO's effort by 
        credibly threatening, as noted in a May 1, 1989, statement by 
        then-Secretary of State James A. Baker, ``that the United 
        States [would] make no further contributions, voluntary or 
        assessed, to any organization which makes any change in the 
        P.L.O.'s present status as an observer 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, triggering United States law that prohibits 
        funding for any United Nations organization that grants 
        membership 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 Israel by 
        seeking recognition of a Palestinian state from foreign 
        governments and in international forums.
            (7) Further efforts to bypass negotiations and to 
        unilaterally declare a Palestinian state, or to appeal to the 
        United Nations or other international forums 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 
        relevant Middle East peace process efforts.

SEC. 302. REAFFIRMATION OF UNITED STATES POLICY REGARDING THE STATUS OF 
              PALESTINIAN ENTITIES AT THE UNITED NATIONS, ITS 
              SPECIALIZED AGENCIES, OR ITS AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS.

    Congress hereby reaffirms that it is the law of the United States 
to prohibit the use of United States taxpayer dollars for certain 
assessed or voluntary contributions to the United Nations or its 
specialized agencies regarding the status of the Palestinians at the 
United Nations or its specialized agencies, including under section 414 
of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal 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 ORGANIZATIONS.

    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 
Liberation Organization, the Palestinian Authority, or any other 
Palestinian administrative organization or governing entity, at any 
United Nations entity, prior to the achievement of a final peace 
agreement negotiated between and agreed to by Israel and the 
Palestinians.

             TITLE IV--ANTI-SEMITISM AT THE UNITED NATIONS

SEC. 401. ANTI-SEMITISM AT THE UNITED NATIONS.

    The President shall direct the United States Permanent 
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 Secretariat, 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 Nations and 
                its specialized agencies, programs, and funds to be 
                subject to punitive action, including 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 specialized agencies, programs and 
                funds, or Member States, that make such anti-Semitic 
                statements or references in any forum of the United 
                Nations or of its specialized agencies;
                    (D) continues to develop and implements education 
                awareness programs about the Holocaust 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, Divestment, 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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