PRINTER'S NO. 2445
No. 182 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY FINEMAN, IRVIS, BUTERA, RYAN, BERSON AND
BEREN, NOVEMBER 17, 1975
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON RULES, NOVEMBER 18, 1975
In the House of Representatives, November 17, 1975
1 WHEREAS, The United States, as a founder of the United
2 Nations Organization has had, since the inception of such
3 organization, a fundamental interest in promoting the purposes
4 and principles for which that organization was created, and
5 voluntarily contributes more than 168 million annually to its
6 maintenance; and
7 WHEREAS, In Article I of the Charter of the United Nations
8 Organization its purposes provide, not only for "respect for the
9 principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples" in
10 the pursuit of "universal peace," but also for "respect for
11 human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without
12 distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion"; and
13 WHEREAS, The General Assembly of the United Nations has
14 adopted on November 11, 1975 a resolution, which wrongfully
15 associates and equates Zionism with racism and racial
16 discrimination, and which, in effect, appears to endorse anti-
17 semitism, one of the most ancient and vicious forms of racism
1 that mankind has ever known; and
2 WHEREAS, As a result of the adoption of such resolution,
3 President Gerald Ford has stated that the United States
4 "deplores the characterization of Zionism as a form of racism"
5 and that it is his belief that the adoption of such resolution
6 "undermines the principles on which the United Nations is
7 based"; and
8 WHEREAS, Both Houses of Congress have promptly reacted to the
9 United Nations General Assembly vote equating Zionism and racism
10 by unanimously adopting resolutions condemning the United
11 Nations General Assembly action, and calling for a reassessment
12 and reappraisal of the United States relationship to and its
13 participation in such World Body; and
14 WHEREAS, The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
15 Pennsylvania likewise condemns the deplorable and insidious
16 action taken by the General Assembly of the United Nations
17 which, by its attempt to equate Zionism with racism, now
18 threatens and subverts the very principles and goals for which
19 such World Body was created; therefore be it
20 RESOLVED (the Senate concurring), That the General Assembly
21 of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania memorialize the President of
22 the United States and the Congress of the United States to make
23 an assessment and appraisal of America's future role and
24 participation in the United Nations, and, in connection
25 therewith, to conduct searching inquiries into the reasons or
26 motives for which the majority of such World Body has taken such
27 shameful and outrageous anti-semitic action, which undermines
28 and threatens the basic foundation for which such World Body was
29 created; and be it further
30 RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be forwarded to
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1 Gerald Ford, President of the United States, the Presiding
2 Officers and the Majority and Minority Leaders of both Houses of
3 Congress and the Senate and Congressional delegation from the
4 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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