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Hillel Neuer: Jewish Eyes on the United Nations
by Paul Lungen
January 10, 2016

Montreal-born Hillel Neuer walks softly, but carries a big microphone. Words are his currency, and as executive director of Geneva-based UN Watch, he brings them to bear against the dictatorships that flout humanitarian law but who wrap themselves in the protective cloaks of the United Nation’s Human Rights Council. In 2013, he called those delegates, to their face, “the despots who run this council.”… The General Assembly and Human Rights Council are mostly on autopilot, as are other UN agencies like UNESCO, when it comes to many votes and particularly anti-Israel resolutions. Typically it’s the same resolutions every year. They are sponsored by the Arab and Islamic states, with the Palestinians playing a key role. And they typically try to ratchet up the language to make it more inflammatory. READ MORE

The Banned Speech from 2007: Hillel Neuer takes on U.N. Human Rights Council and shames them. They don’t take it well.