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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? 

 

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The Final Insult in the UN's Assaults Against Israel

 U.N. Anti-Israel Bias

"This most recent resolution approved by the United Nations reflects an ongoing history of anti-Israel bias in the entity. Palestinian representation in the United Nations drives hard for recognition of their viewpoint that sees Israel as their oppressor and occupier. They have pressed for – and won – a permanent slot on the agenda of every Human Rights Council meeting for the discussion of Israel’s violations of Palestinian human rights. Item 7 is a permanent fixture on the schedule, and while it’s worded in a way that indicates it’s for discussing human rights violations occurring amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the conversation remains unbalanced. It regularly results in resolutions and condemnations against Israel but rarely does so against Palestinians, though they repeatedly violate the human rights of their own people in their fervor to harm Israel, continue to incite terrorist activity against Israelis and reward them with payments to the families of imprisoned or martyred terrorists."

Jewish Voice Ministries Canada 

Israel's Ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, on Nov. 30, 2022 (Photo: Israel Permanent Mission to the UN)

"What would you say if the international community celebrated the establishment of your country as a disaster? What a disgrace."

"[Jews living in the Middle East and in North Africa] did not revolt against the international community’s decision. They did not try to annihilate another people. Their only crime was being Jewish."

"This is the true ‘Nakba.’ This is the disaster carried out against the Jewish people and this is the disaster that this body has ignored for decades."

Gilad Erdan, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations

With the creation of the State of Israel 75 years ago, an estimated 650,000 Arabs living in the region fled, assuming they would return, as they were assured they could, in the face of combined Arab armies attacking the fledgling Jewish State with the purpose of annihilating its presence, felt by Muslims to be an sacrilegious assault against Islam which forbids any other religion to abide in lands consecrated to Islam. 850,000 Jews were expelled from their ancient homes in Arab states in reaction to Israel's rebirth; from North Africa, including Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, while others fled or were driven out of Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Yemen, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria and Iran. 

The United Nations created a refugee assistant body specific to the new refugees that called themselves Palestinians, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency to look after the needs of these refugees who found themselves unable to return to the land now occupied by the State of Israel. The opportunity for a state of their own -- in former biblical-era Samaria and Judea now called the West Bank and Gaza Strip -- through the Partition offered by the United Nations was refused by the Arab Palestinians who maintained the entire area was their ancestral land, not that of the Jews.

UNRWA has been a permanent UN refugee installation, unlike any other in the world where other, much larger refugee populations fleeing conflict are eventually settled into permanent homes. By keeping UNRWA alive and active the UN has deliberately and with a strange malice aforethought institutionalized a permanent refugee status for Arab Palestinians who will only cease being 'refugees' once Israel ceases to exist. Israel has no intention whatever of moving over and out of their ancestral land mass. In point of fact, Israel accepted as their new home a portion of the geography that was once theirs; an act of conciliation and jubilation.

 

Palestinians and their victimhood enablers rally to the cause of Israel as an 'occupation' authority ruling the lives of Palestinians. And to keep that institutionalized victimhood alive and well, the day of Israel's modern re-founding on May 15 has been dubbed 'Nakba' (catastrophe) Day for 'Palestinians' commemorating their great loss. The United Nations general assembly in December, led by the Arab League nations, voted to formalize international recognition through the UN of 'Nakba Day'. While Israel celebrates its 75th birthday as a homeland reborn for Jews, the world community with some exceptions recognize that event as a catastrophe.

 

The United Nations, dedicated to world peace, dedicated to advancement of humanity, of nations living in security, dedicated to human rights and equality has become a global institution of renascent antisemitism led by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and their allies wherein UN various departments tend to agree that Israel may be a member of the United Nations by sufferance, and if any nation is going to be criticized as offending human rights, it will be Israel, the inclusive nation which, though existing as a haven and home for Jews, accepts 20 percent of its population comprised of Arabs and other non-Jewish ethnics with full citizenship.

In the past seven years the UN General Assembly has seen fit to pass 208 resolutions that target countries for reported UN Charter violations along with other transgressions; 140 of those resolutions singled out Israel. The total of UN condemnations targeting other UN member states last year combined was 13. Israel alone was targeted with 15 condemnations last year. 

The UN's International Court of Justice has been assigned by the General Assembly to study Israel's "prolonged occupation, settlement and annexation" of Palestinian territory along with measures allegedly taken by Israel "aimed at altering the demographic composition, charter and status" of Jerusalem, the City of David, the ancient ancestral capital city of Judaean heritage. The resolution makes no mention of the violence committed by Fatah, the PLFP, Hamas or any other of the Palestinian terrorism groups violently attacking Israel to achieve their 'River to the Sea' aspiration.

 

 

Infamously some of the member-nations that regularly sit on the UN Human Rights Commission, to sit in judgement on democratic Israel with its just laws and commitment to equality for all its citizens, include human rights abusers such as China, Sudan, Zimbabwe and Cuba. In the 17 years since its founding, the UN's HRC adopted 90 resolutions in condemnation of Israel. The Human Rights Council this year sees China, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Cuba, Eritrea, Sudan and Somalia as ruling members.

On behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, two years ago the HRC established a permanent commission of enquiry to examine breaches of human rights norms by Israel, in a vote initiated by Pakistan and the delegation from the Palestine Liberation Organization, a terrorist group in its own right. UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization adopted a resolution in 2016 that literally negated a Jewish presence from antiquity forward in the Middle East.

The site of the two ancient Jewish temples known as the Temple of Solomon, twice destroyed with one retaining wall left, the Western Wall (Wailing Wall) is given short shrift as the most sacred site in Judaism, the site given attribution as a sacred Islamic site; the Noble Sanctuary, where it was known well before the advent of Islam as the Temple Mount. Hebron, the site of the Tomb of the Patriarchs where Abraham and his family were buried, from whom the 12 Tribes of Israel were descended, is marked by UNESCO as a Palestinian World Heritage Site. The UN an accomplice of the Palestinian Authority in pillaging Judaism and Judaic history.

The UN's Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) last year produced one agenda for a resolution singling Israel out as a "major obstacle" to the rights of Palestinian women. "ECOSOC's 2022 session completely ignored the world's worst abusers of women's rights, refusing to pass a single resolution on the situation of women in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Chad, Qatar or Algeria, which rank among the ten worst violators of women's rights in the world", Hillel Neuer of UN Watch fumed.

The United Nations General Assembly Fourth Committee votes on measures addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, at the United Nations in New York, November 11, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)