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| March 21, 2016
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UN Human Rights Council ignores ISIS, Syria etc. -Resolutions ONLY against Israel

With Israel worse than ISIS, Syria, N. Korea, Iran etc. the UN’s Human Rights Council discusses FIVE resolutions against Israel, nothing on anyone else.

By Matt Wanderman

The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) gathered on Monday to discuss five resolutions about Israel.

Unfortunately, the international body was unable to look into other pressing issues, such as the expansion of ISIS; Iran and North Korea’s violations of UN weapons resolutions; and attacks on civilians in Syria, Yemen and Iraq.

This is partially due to the body’s infamous Item 7, which requires a review of Israel’s human rights record during every session. 

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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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| 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 16, 2015
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UN’s Envoy Investigating Israel in ‘War Crimes’ Probe Denied Entry Into Gaza

view videoFor second time, UNHRC investigator denied entry to Gaza, West Bank as Israel refuses to be part of ‘anti-Israel & one-sided mandate.’

By Ari Yashar

 

An official revealed that Israel has blocked a visit to Gaza, Judea and Samaria by a member of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), which is poised to released a report over last summer’s counter-terror Operation Protective Edge; the report is anticipated to be highly biased against Israel.

Makarim Wibisono of Indonesia, UN's special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian-held territories

Makarim Wibisono of Indonesia, UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian-held territories

It was the second time Makarim Wibisono, the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian-held territories, had been barred entry, as Israel refuses to be part of the probe by the UNHRC which has been hostile to the Jewish state. Continue Reading »

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| June 14, 2015
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Israel’s Prime Minister: UN war-crimes report on Gaza war proven ‘baseless, a waste of time’

An unofficial report independently compiled by a group of retired Western generals confirms Israel’s internal report released today, on IDF’s conduct during ‘Operation Protective Edge’ proving the UN’s ‘baseless blaming’ of Israel.

By Reuters

 

Israel will issue a report on Sunday arguing its 2014 Gaza offensive was lawful, a move aimed at pre-empting the release of findings of a UN war crimes investigation that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed as a waste of time.

Netanyahu during Sunday's government meeting. (Photo: Ohad Zoigenberg)
Netanyahu during Sunday’s government meeting. – Photo: Ohad Zoigenberg

 

Netanyahu told his Cabinet on Sunday that “whoever wants a baseless automatic accusation against Israel can waste their time reading the UN report.” Continue Reading »

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| June 14, 2015
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Int’l group of experts tells UN: IDF abided by laws of war during 50-day Gaza conflict

Former high-level military commanders & military leaders release report of fact-minding mission to Israel, concluding that unlike Hamas, IDF was careful to abide by int’l laws of war.

By Yitzhak Benhorin

 

A multi-national group of former senior military and political leaders on Friday released its findings that during Operation Protective Edge, “Israel not only met a reasonable international standard of observance of the laws of armed conflict, but in many cases significantly exceeded that standard.”

Rubble in Gaza after IDF strike during Operation Protective Edge – Photo: Reuters

 

The release of the findings comes not long before the UN Human Rights Council’s release of its own findings on Israel’s actions during last summer’s conflict. Continue Reading »

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| May 19, 2015
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Palestinian Authority advances lawsuits against Israel at ICC for war crimes & construction

Palestinian FM Riad al-Malki says PA submitted request to set date at ICC for alleged war crimes committed by Israel and their settlement expansions.

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH, TOVAH LAZAROFF & YONAH JEREMY BOB

 

Authority has submitted an official request to the International Criminal Court to set a date to discuss the possibility of two war-crimes lawsuits against Israel, PA Foreign Minister Riad Malki said on Monday.

Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki (C) leaves the ICC at the Hague, August 5, 2014. – Photo: REUTERS

The Palestinians want the ICC to sue Israel for war crimes it claims were committed during last summer’s Operation Protective Edge and for Jewish building over the 1949 Armistice Line in Jerusalem and the West Bank. 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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| March 9, 2015
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UN’s investigators on Israel’s ‘Operation Protective Edge’ request delay after team-leader resigned

UNHRC’s war probe into Israel’s actions in Gaza to be led by US Judge Mary McGowan Davis, after William Schabas’ resignation in early February.

By i24news

 

UN investigators tasked with probing the 50-day war in Gaza last year asked Monday to postpone their report to allow time to adjust after the head of the team quit under Israeli pressure.

Smoke and dust rise following an Israeli air strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 8, 2014 – Photo: Said Khatib (AFP)

The Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza conflict had been scheduled to present its findings to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on March 23. Continue Reading »

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