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RESOLUTION NO. 75-174 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COLENCIL OF TIlE CITY OF SA~NTA ANA CONDEI~ING TttE RESOLUTION OF THE UNITED NATIONS FALSELY ACCUSING ZIONISM AS BEING RACIST AND URGING TttAT THE UNITED NATIONS RESCIND THIS RESOLUTION in infamy, Zionism as WHEREAS, on November 10, 1975, a day that shall live the United Nations, by Resolution, falsely accused being racist, and WHEREAS, such baseless, cowardly, and hypocritical action violates all principles of human decency, and WHEREAS, six million Jews were brutally exterminated while the world stood by cynical, impotent and calloused, and WHEREAS, Zionism is the political movement of the Jewish people to return to their homeland, Israel, and WHEREAS, many nations who voted for this Resolution have engaged in genocide and the imprisonment of political prisoners by the thousands and millions, and WHEREAS such Resolution is a mask for anti-Semitism, a scourage that is in its essence anti-Christian and anti-human, and WHEREAS, the Jewish people have been in the forefront of the fight for human freedom and dignity, both in the United Nations and throughout the world, and WHEREAS, the State of Israel is one of the few remaining democracies on the face of this earth that is truly democratic and protective of all its peoples', religious, racial and human rights. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby condemns this pernicious Resolution of the United Nations falsely accusing Zionism as being racist and urges that the United Nations rescind this Resolution and directs that this Resolution be forwarded to the United Nations, to the State Department, to the State Capitol, and to other Cities in California, urging similar action. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Santa Aha at its regular meeting held on the 15th day of December , 1975. ATTEST: STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE )ss CITY OF SANTA kNA ) I, FLORENCE I. MALONE, do hereby certify that I am the Clerk of the Council of the City of Santa Ana; that the foregoing Resolution was introduced to said Council at its regular meeting held on the 15th day of December , 1975, and was at said meeting passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit: