UN approves resolution condemning denial of Nazi Holocaust …
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) The U.N. General Assembly approved an Israeli-sponsored resolution Thursday condemning any denial of the Holocaust and urging all nations and social media companies to take active measures to combat antisemitism and Holocaust denial or distortion.
The 193-member world body approved the resolution by consensus without a vote and with a bang of a gavel by Assembly President Abdulla Shahid who met with a group of Holocaust survivors before the assembly meeting. Israels No. 1 enemy, Iran, disassociated itself from the resolution.
The ambassadors of Israel and Germany, which strongly supported the resolution, stressed the significance of the resolutions adoption on Jan. 20: It is the 80th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference where Nazi leaders coordinated plans for the so-called Final Solution of the Jewish Question at a villa on the shores of Berlins Wannsee Lake in 1942 during World War II.
The result was the establishment of Nazi death camps and the murder of nearly 6 million Jews, comprising one-third of the Jewish people. In addition, millions of people from other nationalities, minorities and targeted groups were killed, according to the resolution.
We now live in an era in which fiction is becoming fact and the Holocaust is becoming a distant memory, Israels U.N. Ambassador Gilad Erdan told the assembly in urging support for the resolution. And as this happens following the greatest crime in human history, now comes the greatest cover-up in human history.
Erdan, the grandson of Holocaust survivors, said the resolution preserves the memory of the 6 million victims and is a commitment to make sure that Holocaust distortion and denial will be tolerated no more.
He said social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter and You Tube are spreading the pandemic of distortions and lies about the Holocaust
Social media giants can no longer remain complacent to the hate spread on their platforms and must take action now, the Israeli ambassador said.
The resolution, cosponsored by 114 nations, commends countries that have preserved Nazi death camps and other sites from the Holocaust and urges the 193 U.N. member states to develop educational programs that will inculcate future generations with the lessons of the Holocaust in order to help to prevent future acts of genocide.
It requests the U.N. and its agencies to continue developing and implementing programs aimed at countering Holocaust denial and distortions and to mobilize civil society and others to provide truthful facts about the Holocaust.
Currently, the U.N. has an outreach program on the Holocaust and the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, has a program on Holocaust education and combatting anti-Semitism.
Israels Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Germanys Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock issued a joint statement welcoming the resolution and expressing extreme concern at the dramatic increase in Holocaust denial, distortion and revisionism. They said the phenomenon of comparing current political disputes to the Holocaust is deeply troubling and a perversion of history and injustice to Holocaust vicitms.
We carry an obligation to remember, to learn and to challenge the growth of Holocaust revisionism, denial and distortion both on and offline, the ministers said.
Unlike Security Council resolutions, General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding, but do reflect global opinion.
The General Assembly designated Jan. 27 the day the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by the Soviet army as the annual International Day of Commemoration in memory of victims of the Holocaust in 2005. The resolution underlines that remembrance is a key component to the prevention of further acts of genocide.
It says Holocaust denial refers to discourse and propaganda that deny the historical reality and the extent of the extermination of the Jews by the Nazis and their accomplices during World War II and any attempt to claim that the Holocaust did not take place or call into doubt that gas chambers, mass shooting, starvation, and intentional genocide were used against the Jewish people.
The resolution says distorting or denying the Holocaust also refers to intentional efforts to excuse or minimize the role of Nazi collaborators and allies, gross minimization of the number of victims, attempts to blame the Jews for causing their own genocide, statements casting the Holocaust as a positive event, and attempt to blur the responsibility for establishing concentration and death camps by putting blame on other nations or ethnic groups.
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