UN Passes Holocaust Denial Resolution

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a new resolution aimed at combating Holocaust denial. The resolution, which was put forward by Germany and Israel, agreed on a definition of what the denial of the Holocaust is.

During the Holocaust, the Nazis killed 6 million Jews during World War II. The resolution urges member states as well as social media firms to help fight anti-Semitism.

The 193-member UN General Assembly adopted the resolution on Thursday without a vote, but Iran chose to disassociate itself from it. 

The UN General Assembly said on Thursday that it rejects and condemns without reservation any denial of the Holocaust as a historical event, whether in full or in partial denial. 

The text praises countries that have preserved Nazi death camps and concentration camp sites and urged all member states to provide educational programs to teach people about the Holocaust. 

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid issued a joint statement detailing their concern in rising Holocaust denial. 

The resolution spells out that distortion and denial of the Holocaust include intentional efforts to minimize or excuse the impact that the event; attempts to blame Jewish people for the genocide against them; the gross minimization of the sheer number of victims; statements that make the Holocaust out to be a positive thing; and attempts to blur the responsibility for establishing death camps and concentration camps by the Nazis. 

The General Assembly meeting happened on the 80th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, which was a meeting of senior Nazo officials to ensure the implementation of the “Final Solution.” The Final Solution to the Jewish Question was the Nazi plan for the genocide of all Jewish people.

The Wannsee Conference on Jan. 20, 1942, in the Berlin suburb Wannsee enacted the deliberate and systematic genocide of Jews across Europe. 

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