This bill would reform the U.S. relationship with the broader UN system. Each of the its provisions seeks to use U.S. influence to defend Israel and to undermine the Palestinians at the UN.
The bill’s specific provisions include, but are not limited to the following: authorizing audits of U.S. contributions to the UN; restricting annual funding to UN programs that do not advance U.S. interests; establishing firm U.S. policies not to support anti-Semitic or anti-Israeli behavior at the UN; revoking funding for any UN agency that upgraded the Palestinian observer mission’s membership outside of a negotiated settlement with Israel. This bill would also direct the U.S. to lead a high-level diplomatic committee to revoke and repudiate the Goldstone Report. All U.S. funding of the ‘flawed’ Durban process, a UN anti-racism and anti-discrimination initiative, would be withheld. Finally, the bill would condition U.S. funding of UNRWA on the agency’s implementation of safeguards against terrorist links.
4 cosponsors (4R).
Last major action: 7/17/13 referred to Senate Cmte. on Foreign Relations.