Israeli-led resolution combating Holocaust denial receives overwhelming support at UN

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : A total of 114 countries joined in as co-sponsors, including a deluge in the final moments before its passage, on a project that Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan called his most important initiative in New York.
40% : " Due to its failure to pay its dues for the last two years, Iran was stripped of its U.N. voting rights earlier this month and could not request a full roll-call vote.
38% : Among the millions of Jewish victims exterminated as a result of the implementation of murderous anti-Semitic ideology of German Nazism, 3 million were Polish citizens," said Polish Ambassador to the United Nations Krzysztof Szczerski.
35% : The Islamic Republic of Iran, whose regime has made an art of Holocaust denial, spoke out, with its ambassador claiming that Israel exploits "the suffering of Jewish people in the past as cover for the crimes it has perpetrated over the past seven decades against regional countries.
30% : Erdan focused the gathered diplomats' attention on a sea change in Holocaust revisionism -- from outright denial to a blatant distortion -- indirectly calling out Iran in the process.

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