HRES409-119

That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that it is the policy of the United States to— commemorate the Nakba through official recognition and remembrance; denounce the ongoing Nakba of the Palestinian people; reject efforts to enlist, engage, or otherwise associate the United States Government with denial of the Nakba; encourage education and public understanding of the facts of the Nakba, including the United States role in the humanitarian relief effort, and the relevance of the Nakba to modern-day refugee crises; support the resumed provision of social services to Palestinian refugees through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East; support the implementation of Palestinian refugees’ rights as enshrined in United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194 and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; recognize that Palestinians are a unique people who are every bit as human as everyone else; reject bigoted efforts to question, dismiss, or otherwise deny the existence of Palestinians and their humanity; and ensure the United States ends its complicity in Israel’s ongoing Nakba against the Palestinian people by— prohibiting United States weapons from being used to destroy Palestinian homes and forcibly remove Palestinians from their land; and ending United States diplomatic support for such actions.