Date: 1987-11-09
Speaker: PAT MOYNINA (republican)
Chamber: H

who advised me that there was pending for a vote before the U.N. General Assembly a resolution equating Zionism with racism. He asked me whether it would be possible to obtain a statement of congressional opposition to the resolution. I told him of my violent opposition to the resolution. Of course I would try to mobilize congressional opposition to it as well. I drafted a resolution expressing the sentiment of the Congress against the proposed U.N. resolution and requested the then Majority Leader Thomas ONeill and Minority Leader ROBERT MICHEL whether they would act as original cosponsors of the bill.. They agreed immediately to do so. I then sought cosponsors among my colleagues. and within 2 days all the Members of the House but one signed on the resolution as cosponsorsall but one. Mr. Speaker. it truly showed the depth of feeling in the House. We had. I believe. 434 cosponsors of the resolution calling for opposition to the U.N. resolution. I called Ambassador MOYNIHAN and told him of the House support for the position he had taken in opposition to. the resolution. and he used it. but unfortunately it did not stop the later passage of that false and malicious resolution. At that time in an eloquent speech. Ambassador MOYNIHAN said in part. "We shall not acknowledge. we shall not abide by. we shall never acquiesce in this infamous act." On NovemberI1. 1975. Mr. Speaker. Majority Leader ONeill with the cosponsorship of Minority Leader MIcHli. offered a resolution in the House which passed by a vote of 384 to 0. That resolution. which I should like to cite at this time. reading the resolving part: Resolved. the House of Representatives sharply condemns the resolution adopted by the General Assembly on November 10. 1975 in that said resolution encourages antiSemitism by wrongfully associating and equating Zionism with racism and racial discriminatioh. thereby contradicting the fundamental purpose of the United Nations. and be it further resolved the House strongly opposes any form of participation by the U.S. Government in the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination so long as that decade and program remain distorted and compromised by the aforementioned resolution naming Zionism as one of the targets of that struggle. and be it further resolved that the House calls for an energetic effort by all those concerned with the adherence of the United Nations: to the purposes stated in its charter to obtain reconsideration of the aforementioned resolution with a view to removing the subject. of Zionism which is a national. but in some way. a racist.philosophy from the context of any programs and discussions focusing on racism or racial discrimination. Mr. Speaker. time has long passed for reconsideration of this resolution. this U.N. resolution. We ought to bend every effort to achieve that decision. and I hope the bill that we pass today will achieve that purpose. Mr. Speaker. I include in the RECORD the speech made by the distinguished ambassador at that time. Ambassador PAT MOYNIHAN. to the U.N. General Assembly. November 9.-1987 A copy of the abovereferenced speech follows: