The US under the Biden administration numbered among the abstainers.
New York, July 6 – A General Assembly resolution spearheaded by several Arab states, with the support of the observer-status State of Palestine, deemed the systematic, industrialized slaughter of Jews in Europe during the Second World War an acceptable response by the peoples of Europe to the threat of Jews living among them and possibly even thriving. The measure represents a diplomatic achievement for the Palestinians, who have long sought to characterize their efforts to eliminate the Jews as a legitimate movement.
By a vote of 100-34, with eight abstentions, the pro-Palestine bloc carried General Assembly Resolution 8888, approving language that declared Hitler’s Final Solution to the Jewish Question, which resulted in the mass murder of nearly six million Jews during the1930’s and 40’s, “legitimate German resistance to Jewish occupation.”
Delegates from the State of Palestine hailed the resolution’s passage as a victory for historic justice. “It is but a short leap from here to our liberation,” Ambassador Riyad Mansour declared. “Now that we have convinced the world that the Holocaust, which we also say never happened, was justified, we can more easily describe our own campaign to destroy the Zionist Entity from the River to the Sea in the same terms. Not that it stopped us before, and you won’t see much of a difference in what we do from before the resolution, but it’s a milestone.”
The nations voting in support of the resolution included almost all the Arab countries, several dozen African nations, all of South America, Central America, half of Europe, and most of Asia. A handful of other democracies, plus a smattering of longtime Israel allies, voted against, with the US under the Biden administration numbering among the abstainers.
General Assembly resolutions are advisory in nature, meaning that little practical import results from 8888. Its principal impact, analysts, say, will occur in the realm of propaganda and activism, where partisans can point to 8888 as proof that “the international community” endorses mass murder of Jews as a legitimate action.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have already expressed support for the resolution, and called on the Security Council – which does create resolutions that bind other member nations – to adopt the motion as well. That scenario remains unlikely, with Britain, and France, each with veto power in the body, voicing opposition to such a measure already. The Biden administration has said it would not stand in the way, but the UK and France remain reluctant opponents of an imposed solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Russia’s position remains unpredictable.
Outside the UN in New York, pro-Palestinian protesters attempted to attack passing Jews, in an ongoing attempt to free Palestine.
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