[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1091 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1091

    Condemning in the strongest terms Iran's commitment to hold an 
   international Holocaust denial conference on December 11-12, 2006.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 5, 2006

Mr. Hastings of Florida (for himself, Mr. Hoyer, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, Mr. 
Ackerman, Mrs. Maloney, Mr. Gene Green of Texas, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, 
    Mr. Waxman, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Meek of Florida, Mr. Engel, Mr. 
McNulty, Mr. Israel, Mr. Nadler, Mr. Wexler, and Mr. Crowley) submitted 
   the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 
                        International Relations

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                               RESOLUTION



    Condemning in the strongest terms Iran's commitment to hold an 
   international Holocaust denial conference on December 11-12, 2006.

Whereas Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has expressed his intention to 
        hold an international Holocaust denial conference entitled ``Study of 
        Holocaust: A Global Perspective'', to begin on December 11, 2006, in 
        Tehran;
Whereas the Iranian Government is openly supportive of Holocaust revisionists, 
        who resolve that the systematic state-sponsored murder of 6,000,000 Jews 
        and other targeted groups by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during 
        World War II was either fabricated or exaggerated;
Whereas in August 2006, Iran staged a reprehensible international contest of 
        cartoons on the Holocaust, endorsing and promoting prevailing anti-
        Semitic and anti-Israeli stereotypes and Holocaust denial;
Whereas President Ahmadinejad wrote in a letter in July 2006 to German 
        Chancellor Angela Merkel, ``Is it not a reasonable possibility that some 
        countries that had won the war (World War II) made up this excuse to 
        constantly embarrass the defeated people . . . to bar their progress.'';
Whereas on October 26, 2005, in a conference entitled, ``The World without 
        Zionism'', President Ahmadinejad stated in a speech that ``Israel must 
        be wiped off the map.'';
Whereas thereafter, these anti-Semitic comments were broadly condemned by the 
        United Nations and others, including a measure passed by a unanimous 
        vote of the United States House of Representatives on October 28, 2005;
Whereas President Ahmadinejad's current intent to host an international 
        Holocaust denial conference is only the latest abominable act he has 
        taken in a series of threatening and anti-Semitic, Holocaust denial 
        statements and actions since he rose to power;
Whereas to deny the Holocaust's occurrence is in itself an act of anti-Semitism;
Whereas one who denies the Holocaust, denies the greatest tragedy of the Jewish 
        people and the most extreme act of anti-Semitism in history;
Whereas President Ahmadinejad's past and present declarations and actions--
        spewing outrageous anti-Semitic, anti-Israel rhetoric, remaining a 
        primary source of funding, training, and support for terrorist groups 
        seeking to destroy Israel, and openly threatening Israel and the United 
        States--prove President Ahmadinejad is on a national crusade of hatred 
        and ultimate destruction against Israel and the Western civilized world;
Whereas President Ahmadinejad's statements and actions arrive in the midst of 
        Iran's relentless defiance of the international community by rejecting 
        nuclear nonproliferation standards and the latest United Nations 
        Security Council demand that Iran immediately halt its efforts to enrich 
        uranium; and
Whereas the longstanding policy of the Iranian regime aimed at destroying the 
        democratic State of Israel, highlighted by statements made by President 
        Ahmadinejad, underscores the threat posed by a nuclear Iran: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved,  That the House of Representatives--
            (1) condemns in the strongest terms Iran's commitment to 
        hold an international Holocaust denial conference on December 
        11-12, 2006, and any and all vile anti-Semitic statements made 
        by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other Iranian 
        leaders;
            (2) calls on the United Nations to officially and publicly 
        repudiate all of Iran's anti-Semitic statements made at such 
        conference and hold accountable United Nations member states 
        that encourage or echo such statements;
            (3) calls on the United Nations Security Council to 
        strengthen its commitment to taking measures necessary to 
        prevent Iran from possessing nuclear power;
            (4) further calls on President George W. Bush to condemn 
        President Ahmadinejad's stated intent to hold an international 
        Holocaust denial conference;
            (5) reaffirms the United States commitment to prevent a 
        nuclear Iran;
            (6) reaffirms the United States longstanding friendship and 
        ally in the State of Israel; and
            (7) vows to never forget the horrendous murder of millions 
        in the Holocaust and affirms that such genocide should never 
        happen again.
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