UN approves resolution to condemn denial of the Holocaust

Auschwitz in Nazi-occupied Poland was an extermination camp where about a million people, mostly Jews, were killed (AP Photo/Stanislaw Mucha, File)

The UN General Assembly approved an Israeli-sponsored resolution on Thursday condemning any denial of the Holocaust and urging all nations and social media companies “to take active measures to combat antisemitism and Holocaust denial or distortion”.

The 193-member world body approved the resolution by consensus, without a vote, and with a bang of a gavel by assembly president Abdulla Shahid.