Sec. 3. Anti-Semitism and the United Nations
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The President shall direct the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations to use the voice, vote, and influence of the United States at the United Nations to make every effort— to ensure the issuance and implementation of a directive by the Secretary-General or the Secretariat, as appropriate, that— requires all employees of the United Nations and its specialized agencies to officially and publicly condemn anti-Semitic statements made at any session of the United Nations or its specialized agencies, or at any other session sponsored by the United Nations; requires employees of the United Nations and its specialized agencies, programs, and funds to be subject to punitive action, including immediate dismissal, for making anti-Semitic statements or references; proposes specific recommendations to the General Assembly for the establishment of mechanisms to hold accountable employees and officials of the United Nations and its specialized agencies, programs, and funds, or Member States, that make such anti-Semitic statements or references in any forum of the United Nations or of its specialized agencies; continues to develop and implement education awareness programs about the Holocaust and anti-Semitism throughout the world as part of an effort to combat intolerance and hatred; and requires the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to develop programming and other measures that address anti-Semitism; to secure the adoption of a resolution by the General Assembly that establishes the mechanisms described in paragraph (1)(C); and to continue working toward further reduction of anti-Semitism in the United Nations and its specialized agencies, programs, and funds.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of the amounts appropriated or otherwise made available for the United Nations and its affiliated agencies under the heading Contributions for International Organizations for fiscal year 2017 and each fiscal year thereafter, no amounts may be obligated or expended until the President certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that no United Nations agency or United Nations affiliated agency grants any official status, accreditation, or recognition to any organization which promotes or condones anti-Semitism, or which includes any such organization as a subsidiary or member.
Amounts appropriated in a fiscal year for use as a United States contribution to the United Nations, but withheld from obligation and expenditure pursuant to this subsection, shall revert to the United States Treasury at the end of such fiscal year and shall not be considered arrears to be repaid to any United Nations entity. Congress makes the following findings: Clause 10 of section 8 of Article I of the Constitution of the United States reserves to Congress the power To define and punish … Offenses against the Law of Nations .
United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, adopted on December 23, 2016, seeks to reaffirm that the establishment by Israel of settlements in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem … constitutes a flagrant violation under international law . Congress has never included the building of such settlements in the definition of an Offence against the Law of Nations. It shall be the policy of the United States— to reject the premise in United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 that the establishment by Israel of settlements in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 constitutes a violation of international law; to affirm that the establishment by Israel of settlements in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, does not constitute an Offence against the Law of Nations, as defined by Congress; and to prohibit United States funding of any United Nations entity that attempts to enforce United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334.