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“Tistounet, 61, is accused of instructing his staff at the UN Human Rights Council to systematically discriminate against UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer, an outspoken critic of the council”

UN WATCH Chief of UN Human Rights Council Staff Targeted Watchdog, Leaked Emails Reveal October 7, 2022 The top official at the UN Human Rights Council stands accused of ordering his staff to manipulate speakers lists and engage in other … Continue reading

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“The #UNHRC, led by some of the world’s most notorious human rights violator regimes, has long been known for its obsession with Israel”

JERUSALEM POST Israeli human rights org calls for UNHRC to be labeled as hate group Zvika Klein July 21, 2022 The US should investigate the United Nations Human Rights Council for antisemitism, according to Shurat HaDin (Israel Law Center). In … Continue reading

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#UNWatch: “Evidence continues to emerge of widespread torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of detainees held in #Palestinian custody in the #WestBank and #Gaza””

UN WATCH Rights Group Exposes Palestinian Torture Ahead of First UN Review July 14, 2022 The Palestinian Authority and Hamas routinely torture human rights activists, women, LGBT persons, political opponents, so-called “collaborators,” and Palestinians who sell land to Jews, the … Continue reading

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UNHRC Commission of Inquiry: “Notably, no other country is singled out in this manner aside from Israel”

JERUSALEM POST Israeli NGO, families of terror victims urge US to pull out of UNHRC June 15, 2022 An Israeli legal NGO has urged the US to withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) following the publication of a … Continue reading

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#UNHumanRightsCouncil has a mandate not just to compile alleged human-rights abuses but to concoct a body of so-called evidence to buttress broader antisemitic efforts to label racist the very notion of a Jewish state”

NEW YORK POST The UN continues Israel-bashing after Biden promised to stop it Richard Goldberg June 15, 2022 When the Biden administration last year reversed its predecessor’s decision to abandon the UN Human Rights Council, Secretary of State Antony Blinken … Continue reading

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“Other such campaigners, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, will participate in the debate at the UNHRC, seeking to amplify each other’s respective slander against the Jewish state and create the impression of legitimacy and consensus regarding their anti-Israel libel”

CAMERA BLOG According to the UN’s Michael Lynk, Facts Change, “Covetous” Jews Do Not David Litman March 23, 2022 One seeking any more proof of the antisemitism behind much of the obscene accusations of Israel being an “apartheid” state need … Continue reading

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“US led when it persuaded the General Assembly to repeal its 1975 vote declaring Zionism to be racism. It should now actively and decisively lead the effort to end the Commission of Inquiry, which the UNHRC created to conclude essentially the same thing”

THE NATIONAL INTEREST Biden Can Reset the UN’s Discriminatory Approach to Israel by Toby Dershowitz and Orde Kittrie February 18, 2022 Amnesty International’s recent report falsely accusing Israel of committing apartheid is designed to fuel a Commission of Inquiry (COI) that the United … Continue reading

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IHRA definition of antisemitism “controversial” where it recognizes that double-standard criticism of Israel is actually Jew-hatred

TIMES OF ISRAEL UN head skirts adoption of IHRA antisemitism definition in Holocaust memorial speech by Jacob Magid January 27, 2022 United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday skirted around announcing the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition … Continue reading

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“Many of the states promoting and supporting the establishment of the UN commission among the most ardent and prevailing human rights violators in the international community”

JERUSALEM CENTER FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS The UN Descent to its Deepest Depths of Hostility against Israel by Alan Baker January 23, 2022 The inherent, long-existing political hostility against the State of Israel within the United Nations, in general, and the … Continue reading

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Only 2nd time an Israeli-led measure at UN has ever passed; initiative earns 114 cosponsors, approved by consensus; Iran opposes but can’t force vote since it hasn’t paid UN dues

TIMES OF ISRAEL UN General Assembly adopts Israeli resolution aimed at combating Holocaust denial by Jacob Magid January 20, 2022 The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution aimed at combatting Holocaust denial on Thursday, in what was just the … Continue reading

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