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"Whereas the United Nations has designated zero mandates to investigate human rights violations suffered by the one-fifth of humanity living in China -- and zero on Cuba, Turkey, Zimbabwe, and most other countries in the world -- it has a plethora of mechanisms targeting Israel."

"Every year since 1968, the UN's 'Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices' has produced annual 70-page reports with legal analyses and recommendations on Israel's alleged violations, summaries of Palestinian testimonies, and collections of statistics."

"Composed of Malaysia, Senegal, and Sri Lanka, and staffed out of the UN human rights office the Special Committee also conducts regular field missions, including to Amman, Cairo and Damascus."

"This has been going on for five decades and still continues."

Hillel Neuer, Executive Director, United Nations Watch, Geneva

The United Nations flag flies on a stormy day at the U.N. during the United Nations General Assembly, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

 

A UN commission of inquiry on Israel presented a report on Tuesday which accused the Jewish state of genocide. All three of the commissioners that make up this special commission resigned in July; resignations meant to be effective following their final report scheduled for Tuesday, 28 October. These resignations build on the UN's special rapporteur for Palestine, Francesca Albanese having been designated on the U.S. sanctions list, in response to her overt support for Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group whose latest atrocities on October 7, 2023, sparked a two-year war with Israel. To Ms. Albanese, Hamas are 'freedom fighters', struggling against 'oppression'. 

 

Arab and Islamic states initiated this last inquiry at a special session they convened at the UN Human Rights council in May of 2021 during an earlier conflict between Israel and Hamas which led to a ceasefire. That inquiry made no move to investigate Hamas rockets into Israel threatening Israeli citizens, but focused on examining 'root causes' of the conflict, focusing on Israel's purported racist "systematic discrimination". In actual fact, no discrimination exists in Israel; citizenship includes Jews, Arabs, Circassians, Druze, Bedouin, Christians, Muslims. In contrast, the Palestinian Authority allows no Jews.

 

As commissioners to lead the inquiry which has no end-date, South African Navi Pillay was made chair of the commission. As the impartial chair she had openly lobbied governments to "sanction apartheid Israel" before being chosen to lead the inquiry. Another commissioner, Miloon Kothari gave an interview on an anti-Israel website, questioning Israel's right to UN membership and spoke of "the Jewish lobby controlling social media". The third of the commissioners, Chris Sidoto, claimed that Jews "throw around accusations (of antisemitism) like rice at a wedding".

 

So much for impartiality and commitment to truth, justice and reality. The commission has a staff of 18 and an annual budget over $4 million, delivering annual reports that accuse Israel of war crimes. They meet in The Hague with the International Criminal Court to render legitimacy to their reports. That's one commission, geared solely to 'investigating' Israel but there's more. No other country in the world has the distinction of being 'investigated' by a plethora of committees in the United Nations struck solely for that purpose.

 

There is a 25-nation "Committee On the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People", led by Cuba, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka, staffed by15 employees within the UN's Division for Palestinian Rights which produce legal studies, background papers and public communications materials as well as holding annual conferences and organizing global advocacy networks targeting Israel. Another based out of Geneva is the UN Human Rights Council's "Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967" with another open-ended mandate to focus on 'Israel's violations'.

 

This is the group headed by Hamas apologist Francesca Albanese who produces reports and statements on 'Israeli crimes'. A little-known entity in Vienna, the "United Nations Register of Damage Caused by the Construction of the Wall ln the Occupied Palestinian Territory", employs 19 staff under the leadership of a former Russian diplomat, financed both through the UN and by voluntary donors that include France, Austria and the Netherlands.

 

And then, of course, there's UNRWA, a billion-dollar agency employing 30,000 people with a focus supposedly on aid for Palestinians, whose senior staff also engages in public media campaigns targeting Israel. There are no staff at the United Nations mandated to critically examine or address China, for example, or Turkey, or Russia, or the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo where millions are displaced and tens of thousands are victims of mass rape and torture. Nor is there a committee to examine the bloody civil war in Sudan. 

 

Strange, isn't it, that the entire world focus as demonstrated by the actions and activities of the United Nations are focused on one tiny country located in a sea of undemocratic neighbours where sectarian and tribal conflicts break out at the drop of a pin, but it is Israel, a state for Jews located on their own ancestral, historical lands that fascinates the world, eager to condemn Jews there, and everywhere. What is it that consumes such a rabid fascination in a people that only want to be left alone, to live normal lives with respect for their human rights, just like everyone else? 

 

Partition: The Division that Arab States and Palestinians rejected time and again...

 

Actions and Demands and Law-Breaking have Consequences

"It's past time they're shut down."

"We hope this is a strong message for the other encampments on campuses across the country."

"Too often we've seen antisemitic harassment, discrimination, and hateful speech and actions connected with many of these encampments."

Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) 

"Unfortunately the encampment remains in place in violation of Waterloo policies and the law."

 "We have said repeatedly, the right to protest does not mean people have the right to endlessly occupy a shared university space"

"The behaviour of encampment members has crossed the line to intimidation and harassment, making their ongoing presence untenable."

Vivek Goel, University of Waterloo president

"[It is] incredibly shameful [that the university administration decided] to sue their own student body that's protesting the university's complicity in a genocide that's almost nine months in and has claimed the lives of over 40,000".

"We remain undeterred and committed to our cause and people. History will absolve us. But you admin, how will you be remembered?"

Occupy UWaterloo statement

Photo by Ryan Remiorz /The Canadian Press

In its recently announced lawsuit against the group Occupy UWaterloo, the University of Waterloo is suing anti-Israel encampment protesters for $1.5 million in damages. According to a social media post by Occupy UWaterloo, the lawsuit brought against them is "incredibly shameful". They claim to be lawfully exercising their right to free expression. Even if it revolves around slandering the Jewish state, expressing their antisemitic sentiments, harassing Jewish students and faculty professors in the process, in their entitlement as protesters.

"History will absolve us" their post @Occupy UW states with complete assurance. The  university, on the other hand, wants its main campus back. Claiming that the protesters have occupied the university's private property illegally, beginning on May 13, reflecting a court document published on the university's website. The damages of $1,500 million is slated to represent trespass, damage to property, intimidation and ejectment.

 

Seven Occupy UWaterloo members are named in the lawsuit, citing their involvement in establishing an "indefinite encampment" adjacent to the Graduate House on the main campus of the University of Waterloo. Occupy UWaterloo is being requested by the university to remove encampment materials, including obstructions that have been erected, and to "remediate" the property to its original condition at the time of the encampment establishment.

 

 

Related issues included in the document are demands that members of the encampment are not to rebuild, and must agree to refrain from University Senate interference, including the board of governors and all activities related to teaching. Conditions are outlined in the document for the Waterloo Regional Police, and the Ontario Provincial Police, inclusive of any police service tasked with removing the encampment and arresting the participants.

A trespass notice was issued by the university on June 21. It was disseminated both in person and online to all participants in the encampment. According to the document, it was subsequently rejected. Ahmad Kamal, named as one of the defendants in the lawsuit, wrote "Again: I ain't reading all that. Free Palestine", on the posted trespass notice where it appeared on the encampment wall.

Encampment leaders had called on the university to divest from companies appearing on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions list. They also demanded an "academic and cultural boycott" of Israeli Companies and universities, demands which were published in the Waterloo Region Record. 

 

These 'human rights' supporting students feel complete entitlement, vindicating their mission while rejecting claims by the university. It is Israel, and Israel alone responsible for the death of Palestinians in Gaza, not the Gaza Hamas leaders that brought death and destruction to Israel, compelling it to embark on a mission to destroy the group whose purpose is its extermination and that of Jews everywhere...

The University of Waterloo and the members of a pro-Palestinian encampment on the campus are set to enter mediation talks. The members of the Occupy UWaterloo group held a press conference on Friday to share their reactions to being sued by the university for $1.5 million in collective damages. CBC