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| October 28, 2015
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Abbas to UN Human Rights Council:  We need you to protect us from Israel

 

In Abbas’ speech to the UNHRC, the Palestinian leader reiterates previous declaration that the PA will not be bound by the Oslo Accords.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF, JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addressed the UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday, saying that Israel’s actions against the Palestinian people have led to the current “explosion” of violence by Palestinian youth and that the time has come for the international community to move from words to actions to stop Israel’s violations of international law.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the special meeting of Human Rights Council at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland October 28.

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| September 11, 2015
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Prosor: UN should wave white flag in surrender of principle, not Palestinian flag

 

view videoWATCH: Prosor states the obvious to the UN after it cynically approved the Palestinian request to fly its flag: No vote can turn “empty symbolic gestures into a state.”

By HERB KEINON

 

The UN – with some EU countries in tow – would pass a resolution stating that the world is flat were such a resolution brought by the Palestinians, Israel’s UN ambassador Ron Prosor said Thursday night.

Prosor’s remarks came after the world body approved a resolution calling for the Palestinian flag to be hoisted along with the banners of the other nations that make up the world body. Continue Reading »

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| September 2, 2015
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UN Report Forecasts an ‘Uninhabitable’ Gaza by 2020 With No Fault to Hamas

 

Blaming only Israel for wars and blockade for the deteriorating situation in Gaza, UN agency neglects to mention tyrannical, oppressive government, widespread Hamas corruption, terror policies, and its ambivalence towards the population. 

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Gaza could become uninhabitable for residents within just five years, the United Nations development agency claimed on Tuesday.

“The social, health and security-related ramifications of the high population density and overcrowding are among the factors that may render Gaza unliveable by 2020,” the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) wrote in its annual report.

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Gaza terrorists inciting violence

Gaza, a tiny enclave of just 362 square kilometers (about 225 square miles) squeezed between Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea that is home to some 1.8 million Palestinians, counts one of the highest population densities in the world. Continue Reading »

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| July 23, 2015
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Has Double Standard Argument Backfired On Israel?

Maybe it’s time to acknowledge that Israel’s arguments of double standards has only invited more condemnation, and the time to do what is necessary without explanation has arrived.

By Tsvi Sadan

 

Pro-Israel social media activists are complaining non-stop about moral standards required only of Israel. One tweet out of myriad points this out:

Likewise, most pro-Israel people share former Minister of Defense Ehud Barak’s view of the IDF being “the most moral army in the world.” Continue Reading »

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| July 7, 2015
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Israel outs UNESCO for ignoring Jewish & Christian historical bond to Jerusalem

Israel’s Foreign Ministry director denounces UN body saying, typically, “The resolution is full of distortions & is totally disconnected from reality on the ground.”

By HERB KEINON

 

Israel slammed the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Tuesday for adopting a “completely one sided resolution” on the Old City of Jerusalem that “deliberately ignores the historical connection between the Jewish people and their ancient capital.”

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The Temple Mount complex in Jerusalem – Photo: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST

The resolution, adopted by the World Heritage Committee meeting in Bonn, takes Israel to task for – among other grievances – the following allegations: engaging in “illegal excavations” in the Old City; causing damage to structures on the Temple Mount; impeding restoration work on the Temple Mount; and damaging the “visual integrity” of the Old City with the Jerusalem light rail.

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| July 4, 2015
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UN Human Rights Council Ratifies Biased Protective Edge Report

Israel’s UN envoy condemns decision, calls widely adopted resolution ‘an anti-Israeli manifesto’ which ignores multiple int’l law violations by Hamas.

By Itamar Eichner

 

The UN Human Rights Council on Friday voted to adopt a report made by a UN inquiry commission on Operation Protective Edge in Gaza last summer, calling on Israel and the Palestinians to prosecute alleged war crimes and to cooperate with the International Criminal Court’s preliminary investigation. 

The UN Human Rights Council discussing the report – Photo: Reuters

The UN Human Rights Council discussing the report – Photo: Reuters

Forty-one countries voted in favor of adopting the report, five abstained – India, Kenya, Ethiopia, Paraguay, Macedonia – and only one, the United States, voted against, saying it was biased against Israel. Continue Reading »

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| June 29, 2015
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Israel Mulls Severing Ties With Biased/Infamous UN Human Rights Council …Again

Army Radio reports that PM Netanyahu told Liberman, that following the release of another biased Gaza report, Israel considering an end in all cooperation with the overtly anti-Israel UN body.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly said Monday that Israel is mulling whether or not it should continue cooperation with the UN Human Rights Council, after the body issued a report last week in which it said that Israel’s actions in last summer’s Gaza conflict may constitute war crimes.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday. – Photo: AMIT SHABAY/POOL

Army Radio reported that in a closed-door meeting, Netanyahu referred to the UNHRC commission of inquiry which issued the report as “a hypocritical committee.” Continue Reading »

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| June 23, 2015
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Revealed: UN Gaza Report Based on Anti-Israel NGOs – No Direct Evidence

‘Goldstone Report’ – AGAIN!: Over 100 references in UN’s defamatory report on Gaza is based on information from pro-Palestinian NGOs that are financially supported by European countries. View list below.

By Arutz Sheva staff

 

The grassroots-Zionist “Im Tirzu” movement has revealed that many Israeli far-left organizations such as Adalah, B’tselem, Breaking the Silence, Yesh Din and others are behind much of the witness testimonies and documents which were brought forth before the William Shabas’s Commission of Inquiry into the 2014 Gaza war.

Chairman of UNHRC commission of enquiry into Gaza war Mary McGowan Davis

Among others, there are 72 references to reports by B’tselem, 8 references to Adalah, 8 references to ‘Breaking the Silence’, 12 references to ‘HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual, 5 references to ‘Yesh Din – Volunteers for Human Rights’, and more. Continue Reading »

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| June 23, 2015
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Jerusalem initiates diplomatic steps against anti-Israel Arab majority at UNHRC

UNGA likely to accept biased report on Gaza war, sparking Israeli diplomatic mission to reduce the power of Arab majority voting bloc inside the UN’s human rights council.

By Itamar Eichner, Aviel Magnezi

 

A new diplomatic front has been launched in Israel, meant to do away with the automatic Arab majority in the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), in light of an impending council vote regarding whether or not to adopt as official the findings of a UN report released Monday on 2014’s Operation Protective Edge in Gaza.

UN REPORTThe report heard round the world. (Photo: AFP)

The report was ill-received in Israel, where officials said that the UNHRC is inherently slanted against Israel. Continue Reading »

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| June 23, 2015
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UNHRC obsession with Israel keeps it busy doing everything but care for human rights

view videoIsrael’s Foreign Ministry condemns UN report on Protective Edge, saying IDF conducted itself to ‘highest standards’ according to numerous unbiased int’l legal & military experts. (WATCH VIDEO CLIPS)

By Moran Azulay, Itamar Eichner

 

Israel’s Foreign Ministry published a harsh response to the UN Human Rights Council’s report on 2014’s Operation Protective Edge on Monday, calling the UNHRC “a notoriously biased institution” that “has a singular obsession with Israel.”

UN investigator Mary McGowan Davis. – Photo: AFP

 

The report released just prior to Israel’s statement harshly accused Israel of continuing its policy of airstrikes despite the resulting death if Gaza and suggested that Hamas had made efforts to warn Israeli civilians of impending rocket attacks. Continue Reading »

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| June 19, 2015
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US envoy Defends Israel at UN: Listing Israel with Boko Haram, ISIS ‘is fundamentally wrong’

At an open UNSC meeting US Envoy for Special Political Affairs David Pressman said, “The idea that the gov’t of Israel, as some have suggested, would be listed on the same page as ISIS, Boko Haram or Syria, is factually & fundamentally wrong.”

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

 

The United States strongly condemned countries, diplomats and UN officials seeking to compare Israel with Islamic State in a speech that its envoy to the United Nations gave to the Security Council in New York on Thursday.

Delegates sit for a Security Council meeting at the UN Headquarters in New York. – Photo: REUTERS

“The idea that the government of Israel, as some have suggested, would be listed on the same page as ISIS, Boko Haram or Syria, is factually and fundamentally wrong,” US Ambassador to the UN for Special Political Affairs David Pressman said. Continue Reading »

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| April 27, 2015
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UN Secretary General says Palestinian militants in Gaza put UN schools at risk not Israel

Palestinian militants were the ones who risked the civilian population by hiding weapons at UN premises being used as emergency shelters, writes UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

By REUTERS

 

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday he deplores that a UN inquiry found “Israeli actions” killed at least 44 Palestinians and injured some 227 more at UN premises being used as emergency shelters during the 2014 Gaza conflict.

UNRWA school damaged by fighting in Gaza. – Photo: REUTERS

“It is a matter of the utmost gravity that those who looked to them for protection and who sought and were granted shelter there had their hopes and trust denied,” Ban wrote in his cover letter to a UN inquiry report into the incidents. Continue Reading »

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| March 29, 2015
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UNHRC says Israel, not Gaza, Syria, Iran, or North Korea worst human rights violator

In ANOTHER #UNfail: According to the U.N.’s top human rights body, Israel deserves more condemnation for violating human rights than ISIS, Iran, Hamas, Boko Haram, Syria or any other nation on earth.

By Anne Bayefsky

 

Last week, Israel was the U.N.’s number one women’s rights violator. This week it is the U.N.’s all-round human rights villain.

UNHRC FAIL

The U.N. Human Rights Council wrapped up its latest session in Geneva on Friday, March 27 by adopting four resolutions condemning Israel. That’s four times more than any of the other 192 UN member states.

Playing at caring about human rights is the U.N.
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| March 23, 2015
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Israel thanks US for abstention at UN human rights session on Gaza conflict

As part of an agreement asked by Israel, every year since 2013, the American delegation skips the Human Rights Council session during its ‘Agenda Item 7.’

By Itamar Eichner

 

The United States will not take the floor at the main UN human rights forum on Monday during the annual debate on violations committed in the Palestinian territories, as part of a previous agreement not to speak, a move praised by sources in Jerusalem. 

UN session – Photo: AFP

The European Union, however, reiterated “the urgency of renewed, structured and substantial efforts towards peace”.

“The US delegation will not be speaking about Palestine today,” a US spokesman in Geneva told Reuters in response to a query as the debate began. Continue Reading »

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| March 23, 2015
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UNHRC to target Israel yet again seeking violations in Gaza and/or West Bank

New special rapporteur on Palestinian affairs will charge Israel with “deliberately” targeting civilian homes in Gaza during its conflict with Hamas last summer.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

 

The United Nations Human Rights Council is set to hear in Geneva on Monday an initial oral report on the controversial Gaza probe as well as multiple other reports on alleged Israeli violations of human rights.

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A session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva underway. – Photo: REUTERS

The day will open with a short initial oral report from the Commission of Inquiry into Gaza, which is made up of a two-member investigatory team, headed by former New York Supreme Court judge Mary McGowan Davis. Continue Reading »

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