Tag Archive for Hillel Neuer

| June 23, 2017
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United Nations Dismisses Wife-Beating by Palestinians as Natural Reaction to ‘Israeli Occupation’

 

WATCH: Even with no evidence, no member at UN Human Rights Council debate earlier this month, except the director of UN Watch, Hillel Neuer, saw any reason to challenge yet another outrageous report, this time blaming Israel for when Palestinian men beat their wives.

By Israel Today Staff

 

First, they called terrorism a “natural reaction” to the presence of Jews in the Holy Land. Now, Palestinian men are being excused by none other than the United Nations for taking out their frustrations with Israel on their own spouses.

At a UN Human Rights Council debate earlier this month, the director of UN Watch, Hillel Neuer, challenged a new report blaming Israel for when Palestinian husbands beat their wives. Continue Reading »

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| June 27, 2016
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Western nations boycott UNHRC’s anti-Israel ‘Agenda Item 7’

 

Pakistan’s Deputy Representative requested Western nations participate in the anti-Israel Agenda Item 7, noting their absence undermines the credibility of the council.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

 

Western states on Monday boycotted the Agenda 7 debate at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, in which over 35 countries attacked Israeli human rights abuses against the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.

Envoy holds folder at the 31st Session of the Human Rights Council at the U.N. European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. – Photo: REUTERS

“We urge all member states to actively participate in Agenda Item 7,” said Pakistan’s Deputy Representative Aamar Aftab Qureshi.

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| May 26, 2016
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Britain, France, Germany and other EU states joined the UN jackals to demonize Israel

Had the EU wanted, they could have set the record straight, and taken a stand against such baseless demonization of the Jewish state. Disgracefully, however, Britain, France, Germany and the other EU states joined the UN jackals by voting against Israel, as the world’s only violator of health rights.

By UN Watch

 

The UK, France, Germany and other EU states voted today for a UN resolution, co-sponsored by the Arab group of states and the Palestinian delegation, that singled out Israel at the annual assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) as the only violator of “mental, physical and environmental health,” and commissioned a WHO delegation to investigate and report on “the health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory” and in “the occupied Syrian Golan,” and to place it on the agenda again at next year’s meeting. Continue Reading »

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| December 1, 2015
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NGO calls on UN Chief to fire staff members that post photos glorying the death of Jews

 

UNRWA employees undeterred with ‘slap on the hand’, continue to post anti-Semitic posts despite UN’s promises to take the racist incitement seriously.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

 

UNRWA staff members who post photographs or text glorying the death of Jews and or Israelis on social media should be fired, said the non-governmental group UN Watch on Monday as it released a report detailing such activity.

Glorying the death of Jews and/or Israelis – Facebook post from Mazen Abo Hady

The report showed a set of Facebook posts from Mazen Abo Hady who said he was a UNRWA teacher in Gaza, one could see an artistic graphic of a man clutching a knife and wearing a black and white Kafiya over his face breaking through an Israeli flag. Continue Reading »

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| May 7, 2014
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UN Watch: UN appointment is ‘crass nepotism, in flagrant breach of council rules’

 

The NGO, UN Watch, terms controversial UN appointment of the wife of outgoing & overtly antisemitic UN monitor Richard Falk, ‘crass nepotism’ that will “harm the cause of human rights… and undermine the interests of the United States.”

By i24news

 

An NGO has issued a call for the US ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power to block the appointment of Turkey’s Hilal Elvar as the new Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. Elvar is the wife of outgoing UN monitor for the West Bank and Gaza, Richard Falk. The vote on her appointment is scheduled for Thursday.

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| March 30, 2014
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Israel’s Prime Minister Attacks UN Human Rights Council for its Moral Corruption

Prime Minister Netanyahu brands UNHRC a ‘procession of hypocrisy’.

Human Rights Council also came under fire by NGO UN Watch for whitewashing Saudi human rights abuses.

By Ari Soffer

 

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has come under fire from various quarters for ignoring and even whitewashing human rights abuses in authoritarian states while focusing almost all of its efforts on criticizing Israel.

Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, PMO

On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu attacked what he described as a “procession of hypocrisy” after the UNHRC passed a string of resolutions condemning the Jewish state despite a wave of rights abuses elsewhere in the region. Continue Reading »

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| March 28, 2014
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Richard Falk to be replaced by Chinkin from UNHRC ‘s Goldstone Report

The Arab League wants a proven, pro-Palestinian legal campaigner who’ll more effectively promote a BDS agenda than a Muslim diplomat.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF
 

 

At the Arab League’s request the United Nations Human Rights Council later today plans to replace its special investigator Richard Falk with British legal expert Christine Chinkin who helped author the controversial 2009 Goldstone Report on Gaza.

OVERVIEW OF the Human Rights Council at the UNHRC Photo: Reuters

Late Thursday night UN Watch’s executive director Hillel Neuer leaked the document UNHRC President Baudelaire Ndong Ella intends to present to the council as it end its 25th session in Geneva by appointing 19 investigators late this afternoon. Continue Reading »

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| March 3, 2013
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WATCH: Michael Coren & Hillel Neuer discuss The U.N. Human Rights Council

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Ron Prosor, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, wrote on his facebook page, 12 Feb 2013, the following:

Last night I met with 60 students from the Columbia University Law School in New York. The students asked great questions and we had an interesting discussion.

Photo: Ron ProsorIsrael's Ambassador to the United Nations12 Feb 2013Last night I met with 60 students from the Columbia University Law School in New York. The students asked great questions and we had an interesting discussion.One of the students asked me about Israel's complex relationship with the UN.Although they were all law students, my answer was mathematical:22 Arab states56 members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation132 'Non Aligned Movement'And what is the result?A triple standard.One standard for 86 democratic countries.A second standard for 106 non-democracies.And finally - a very special standard for the world's one and only Jewish state - Israel.This is the UN's "Triple Standard" equation.

One of the students asked me about Israel’s complex relationship with the UN.

Although they were all law students, my answer was mathematical:

22 Arab states
56 members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation
132 ‘Non Aligned Movement’

And what is the result?

A triple standard.
One standard for 86 democratic countries. Continue Reading »

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