Anne Bayefsky speaks @ the UN about UN antisemitism, Sept. 8, 2014

“I will get right to the point,” she said. “The UN is not having a conference on the threat that global anti-Semitism poses to international peace and security… Why couldn’t the UN, founded on the ashes of the Jewish people, and presently witnessing a widespread resurgence in anti-Semitism, sponsor a conference on combatting global anti-Semitism?” she added.

“The United Nations itself is the leading global purveyor of anti-Semitism,” Bayefsky said to rambunctious applause.

“One does not honor the memory of Jews murdered by intolerance six-decades ago by inciting murderous intolerance towards the remnant of the Jewish people in the here and now,” she added.

Bayefsky went on to list official actions sponsored by UN bodies in which anti-Semitism was promulgated.

“Inciting to hate, like declaring Israel to be racist, as does the UN Durbin declaration, the flagship of the UN racist anti-racism program of action.

In theory the UN charter demands equality both of individual men and women, and of nations large and small. In reality, the UN mass-produces inequality for Jews and the Jewish nation.

Thirty-five percent of all resolutions and decisions ever adopted by the UN’s top human rights body, the Human Rights Council, that are critical of the rights’ records of specific states, condemn one state: Israel. That’s anti-Semitism. Fifty percent. Fifty percent of the special sessions of the general assembly over six decades were convened to denounce Israel. No emergency special session has been called on any other state in over thirty years. That’s anti-Semitism. The human rights council has a fixed agenda with one item to condemn to Israel at every session, and one item to consider the other 192 UN member states if required. That’s anti-Semitism. 70 percent of all the 2013 General Assembly resolutions criticizing specific countries for human rights abuses were about Israel. That’s anti-Semitsm…

Today, UN anti-Semitism has taken one more treacherous turn. The UN has launched a legal pogrom against the Jewish State. Hired guns; posing as independent arbiters… are appointed to discover what they've already found: guilty.”

Israel Matzav: Lunatic Navi Pillay condemns Israel and US for not sharing Iron Dome with Hamas

Navi Pillay, the chairwoman of the United Nations 'human rights council,' President Hussein Obama's favorite international body, has condemned has condemned the United States and Israel for not sharing Iron Dome with Hamas!

Among the UN’s long bill of particulars against the beleaguered Jewish state comes the almost unbelievable accusation that Israel’s refusal to share its Iron Dome ballistic missile defense shield with the "governing authority" of Gaza – i.e. Hamas, the terror group created to pursue the extermination of the Jewish state and now waging a terrorist war against it – constitutes a war crime against the civilians of Gaza.

The UN chairwoman criticized the U.S. for helping fund Israel's Iron Dome system which has saved countless Israeli and Palestinian lives. "No such protection has been provided to Gazans against the shelling," she said.

Just because Hamas fires rockets indiscriminately aimed at Israeli civilian population centers without provocation and fires them from within its own population centers does not “absolve” Israel from its own legal violations, Pillay told reporters Thursday.

Had Navi Pillay and the 'human rights council' been around in 1945, she would have condemned the United States for not sharing the atomic bomb with Germany and Japan.

The Truth about the UN

Ambassador Danny Ayalon spreads the truth about the UN. Hypocrisy and cynicism have taken over the United Nations, the delegitimization perpetrators and Israel boycotters take advantage of the UN's image as an advocate of human rights in order to pass anti-Israeli resolutions which attempt to isolate Israel. It is important to spread the truth that the UN has been transformed into a political arena by undemocratic states who trample on human rights, and UN resolutions must be treated accordingly".

UN's Falk Accuses Israel of 'Inhuman Acts' In his final report before stepping down as a human rights expert, Richard Falk calls on the UN to back a “legitimacy war” against Israel.

The UN Watch NGO on Tuesday exposed a new anti-Israel reportauthored by Richard Falk, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on the areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority.

In the latest report, Falk, who has a history of anti-Israel statements, accuses Israel of “inhuman acts" and calls on the world body to support a “legitimacy war” against the Jewish state.

This will be Falk’s final report before he steps down after serving the maximum term of six years as a UN expert. The report will be presented on March 24 before the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). UN Watch revealed that the report recommends that the world court examine whether Israel is guilty of the international crimes of “apartheid” and “ethnic cleansing,” and urges the UN to investigate corporations that profit from “unlawful Israeli activities.”

Falk’s 22-page report repeats his past allegations concerning Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria, revealed UN Watch. He also offers a lengthy and detailed section arguing that Israel is guilty of “inhuman acts" and “murder” as defined by the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid.

"Falk's report makes no mention of war crimes or human rights violations by Hamas, Islamic Jihad or the Palestinian Authority. In fact, the word 'Hamas' appears nowhere in the report, said Hillel Neuer, director of UN Watch.

 Instead, Falk points the finger at Israel -- and also at the UN, noted the organization.

"It should be remembered that the suffering of the people of Palestine is inseparably linked to the partition arrangements initially proposed by the United Nations in 1947,” writes Falk. He also blames the world body for failing to implement the Goldstone Report’s call to prosecute Israelis for war crimes.

In a thinly veiled reference to UN Watch’s work in exposing his abuses and getting him condemned, Falk’s report twice complains that he was subjected to “defamatory attacks,” which he said had the effect of “diverting attention from substantive issues integral to the mandate.”

He urges the UN to afford his successor “better protection” in this regard.

Several months ago, Falk publicly called on the UN to investigate and potentially expel UN Watch, after it mobilized world leaders to condemn his comments blaming the Boston Marathon bombings on “the American global domination project” and “Tel Aviv.”

Falk has repeatedly locked horns with Israel, the United States, Canada and some human rights groups for positions including labeling Israel's 2008 counterterror offensive in Gaza a war crime and urging a boycott of companies helping Israeli construction in Judea and Samaria.

He has compared Israelis to Nazis and criticized Israel for keeping Islamic Jihad terrorist Khader Adnan in custody, even after a video of him pleading for suicide bombers to “carry the next explosive belt” was exposed.

Falk consistently rejected calls on him to resign, claiming his opponents were trying to silence his criticism of the Jewish state by labelling him as an anti-Semitic.

UN Watch noted that Israel recently returned to the Human Rights Council following a two-year absence, after Western countries finally agreed to admit Israel into their caucus. For decades Israel was the only country at the council excluded from any of the council’s five regional groups.

"Despite the correction of this longstanding breach of the UN Charter's equality guarantee, the council continues to apply selective treatmentagainst Israel, making it the only country permanently featured on the agenda of every meeting," said Neuer.

"As in years before, the upcoming March session is expected to enact half of all its condemnatory resolutions against Israel. Moreover, there will be at least four reports presented on alleged Israeli violations, including Falk's," he added.

"By contrast, there will be no special reports or resolutions on systematic human rights violations committed by major abusers such as China, Cuba, Russia and Saudi Arabia," noted Neuer, who pointed out that all four of the above countries were recently elected as members of the UNHRC.

Israel Speaking Up Against Anti-Israel Bias at the United Nations!

ELDER OF ZIYON: UN interpreter accidentally tells the world the truth (video)

Hillel Neuer of UN Watch writes:

On Thursday a United Nations interpreter, unaware that her microphone was on, uttered words of truth in reaction to the General Assembly’s adoption of nine politically-motivated resolutions condemning Israel, and zero resolutions on the rest of the world.

Under the mistaken impression that she was speaking only to colleagues, the interpreter uttered the following words into the headphones of every UN delegate, and before a live webcast audience worldwide:

“I think when you have… like a total of ten resolutions on Israel and Palestine, there’s gotta be something, c’est un peu trop, non? [It’s a bit much, no?] I mean I know… There’s other really bad shit happening, but no one says anything about the other stuff.”

Laughter erupted among the delegates. “The interpreter apologizes,” said the unfortunate truth-teller, moments later, followed by her audible gasp. I sincerely hope she won’t get fired.

Because the one who should really apologize today is the UN. Founded on noble ideals, the world body is turning the dream of liberal internationalists into a nightmare.

For by the end of its annual legislative session next month, the General Assembly will have adopted a total of 22 resolutions condemning Israel—and only four on the rest of the world combined. The hypocrisy, selectivity, and politicization are staggering.

Today’s nine resolutions, adopted by the GA’s 4th committee, which is comprised of all 193 UN member states, condemned Israel for violating the human rights of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, of Palestinian refugees, and even of Syrians in the Golan Heights.

That’s right: the UN adopted a resolution today that mentions the word “Syria” no less than 10 times—yet said nothing of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s massacre of more than 100,000 of his own people.

Keep in mind that this is not the UN Human Rights Council, which is known for its one-sided anti-Israel agenda. This is the United Nations General Assembly.

The video of the vote, a scene repeated with mind-numbing regularity at the UN, is what should be shocking, not the interpreter telling the truth. Every European country routinely votes for every anti-Israel resolution. 

And outside of a very few exceptions, no diplomat even takes the UN to task for routinely and obviously subverting its own mission.

It takes an anonymous interpreter to tell the world that the emperor has no clothes.

Ban: Releasing Murderers is Good, Building is Bad UN chief condemns Israel for building, but welcomes its "gesture" of releasing murderers.

Releasing terrorists is good, but approving new Jewish construction in Jerusalem is wrong, according to the head of the United Nations.

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, in a statement he released on Wednesday, condemnedIsrael’s announcement that it will build 1,500 new housing units in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo.

“Settlement activity is contrary to international law and constitutes an obstacle to peace. Any measures that prejudge final status issues will not be recognized by the international community,” said the statement.

Ban then expressed “appreciation” for Israel’s decision to release terroristswho murdered Israelis as a “gesture” to the Palestinian Authority.

According to the statement, Ban “understands that Israel took a difficult step in continuing to release Palestinian pre-Oslo prisoners in the face of deep domestic opposition, and appreciates this gesture.”

However, he added, “In keeping with the statement by the Quartet on September 27, the Secretary General expects the parties to take every possible step to promote conditions conducive to the success of the negotiating process and to refrain from actions that undermine trust.”

Israel’s announcement that it will promote new construction in Ramat Shlomo came on Tuesday night, as 26 terrorists were being released, the second in a series of four releases.

Ramat Shlomo is often erroneously described by anti-Israeli media as an "illegal settlement in east Jerusalem". Israel has been slammed in the past for promoting construction in the neighborhood.

The plan to build 1,500 homes has been shelved and then revivedseveral times over the past few years, largely because of criticism over it by the United States.

Israel to return to UNHRC after 18-month walk-out

Who Else Is Being Injured by the Vilification of Israel?

It is generally thought that the systematic diplomatic attacks against Israel in international institutions, many times through outright lies, are unfortunate, but they are really Israel's problem. However, ultimately over time they erode the credibility of bodies like the UN, which often embrace these false charges, only to find later that they are baseless. In the meantime, other, more pressing, international conflicts are completely ignored. This video graphically presents the problem.

ISRAEL MATZAV: Is there bias against Israel at the UN?

We took down Richard Falk

“You’re fired” are two words the U.N.’s chief Israel-hater, Richard Falk, never thought he’d hear.

But that is exactly what he was told last week, thanks to our group's effective action. Click here to see the video.

Let me tell you why I now need your help to continue our battle.

As the U.N. investigator on “Israel’s violations of the bases and principles of international law,” Falk has openly supported the Hamas terrorist organization, vilified the Jewish state, promoted the 9/11 conspiracy theory, and endorsed an antisemitic book. Falk is truly the worst of the worst.

Yet thanks to U.N. Watch's massive pressure campaign -- as reported in the Jersualem Post and numerous other newspapers -- Falk has just been forced out.

In response to our protest, this bigot was just expelled from the board of Human Rights Watch, the influential international organization -- and his name deleted from their website.

“U.N. Watch claimed credit quite reasonably for my dismissal,” admitted Falk. “This is a capitulation to U.N. Watch and all that it stands for,” lamented a writer on Falk's blog.
The story of Falk’s unprecedented removal is now spreading worldwide. Finally, thanks to our advocacy, this virulent anti-Israel and pro-Hamas official—a wolf in sheep's clothing—has been shamed, exposed, and discredited. Finally, his phony halo has been shattered.
Baruch C., building on this important new momentum, it's time for us now to get Falk fired from the U.N. itself.

But I can’t fight Falk and all the other scoundrels by myself. I really need your help and support to continue U.N. Watch's vital campaigning and truth-telling accomplishments. Please click here to make a secure and U.S. tax-deductible gift to sponsor the incredible work of U.N. Watch. Any donation — $500, $1000, or whatever you can give — will directly support our successful work fighting the U.N.'s worst antisemites and enemies of human rights.

Netanyahu: On Jerusalem, I don't care what the UN says

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "Western Wall is not occupied territory and I don't care what the U.N. has to say about that" • Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas: "If settlement in Jerusalem and E1 continues, there will be no other choice but to dissolve the authority and give the responsibility for the Palestinians back to Israel."

Daniel Siryoti and Shlomo Cesana

A construction site in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo.  | Photo credit: Oren Nachshon

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The U.N.’s position that, based on international law, the Temple Mount does not belong to Israel, is "irrelevant," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told three Israeli TV news outlets in a series of pre-election interviews over the weekend.

"The Western Wall has always been and always will belong to Israel,” Netanyahu said. “Since 1967 we have been building in Jerusalem despite world opinion. All of Israel's governments ordered the construction of homes in Jerusalem's Jewish neighborhoods, and we are no different in that respect. If the U.N. does not accept the principle of our construction in Jerusalem, for what purpose was this state established?"

Asked if the interviews to the three channels was in response to a drop in support for the Likud-Yisrael Beytenu coalition in recent polls and the strengthening of Habayit Hayehudi ("The Jewish Home"), Netanyahu replied, "Forget about that; that's only an urban legend. We have resided in the Jewish nation's capital for 3,000 years. The Western Wall is not occupied territory and I don't care what the U.N. says about that."

Netanyahu said the Jan. 22 Knesset election would send a message to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashal. He said the three enemy leaders would be waiting for the voting to end to discover if Israel's prime minister had been given a strong mandate to govern or if he had been dealt a blow.

He also said he would prefer to leave the position of housing and construction minister in the hands of his Likud party, if it gained enough seats in the election, and not have it go to Shas again.

In response to Netanyahu's remarks, Labor Chairwoman Shelly Yachimovich said, "Ahmadinejad, Nasrallah and Mashal will not be voting in the coming election. Israeli citizens will be the ones to decide. It is unprecedented that a prime minister does not bother to reveal his platform and vision, and instead chooses to strike fear into the hearts of citizens in an attempt to divert the public debate to issues for which he feels no need to be accountable to the public."

Hatnuah ("The Movement") Chairwoman Tzipi Livni condemned the decision to build in E1 and said, "Netanyahu's declarations of his intention to authorize construction only serve to endanger Israel's vital interests and weaken Jerusalem and its surrounding residential blocs. His announcements are only meant for voter consumption, and we will all pay the price for his policy when even one home is built."

Meanwhile, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas threatened to resign and dissolve the authority if Israel went through with its plan to construct thousands of new housing units in the E1 corridor between Maaleh Adumim and Jerusalem.

According to a report in the Palestinian media on Saturday, Abbas said, "Israel is crossing a red line in announcing it will build in E1, knowing such an announcement will lead to the end of the peace process. The Palestinian Authority will not be the watchdog for Israel's program of expansion in Palestinian territories. If this goes on, there will be no other choice but to dissolve the authority and give the responsibility for the Palestinians back to Israel."

U.N. Today Adopts 9 Resolutions on Israel, 0 on Syria, Ignoring Assad Massacre of Palestinians

Resolutions on Palestinians omit mention of Syria’s massacre of Palestinians

GENEVA, Dec. 18 – The U.N. General Assembly today adopted nine resolutions on Palestinian rights and the Golan, sharply criticizing Israel, yet making no mention of Sunday’s massacre of Palestinians by Syrian warplanes firing missiles into a mosque in a Palestinian refugee camp near Damascus. Nor did the texts mention the tens of thousands of Palestinians who continue to flee the camp.

By the end of this week, the current 2012 UNGA session will have adopted 22 country-specific resolutions on Israel – and only four on the rest of the world combined -- one each for Syria, Iran, North Korea and Burma, noted UN Watch.

Today’s resolutions criticized Israel for “the continuing systematic violation of the human rights of the Palestinian people,” and focused on “the extremely difficult socioeconomic conditions being faced by the Palestine refugees in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.”

One resolution condemned Israel for holding on to the Golan Heights, demanding Israel hand the land and its people to Syria.

“It’s astonishing,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch. “At a time when the Syrian regime is massacring its own people, how can the U.N. call for more people to be subject to Assad’s rule? The timing of today’s text is morally galling and logically absurd.”

“What is also outrageous is that these resolutions claim to care about Palestinians, yet the U.N. proves itself completely oblivious to the actual suffering on the ground, happening right now: Palestinians slaughtered, maimed and expelled by Assad’s forces.”

“Today’s farce at the General Assembly underscores a simple fact: the U.N.’s automatic majority has no interest in truly helping Palestinians, nor in protecting anyone's human rights; the goal of these ritual, one-sided condemnations remains the scapegoating of Israel,” said Neuer.

“The U.N.’s disproportionate assault against the Jewish state undermines the credibility of what is supposed to be an impartial and respected international body, and exposes the sores of politicisation and selectivity that eat away at its founding mission, eroding the U.N. Charter promise of equal treatment to all nations large and small,” Neuer added.

“With more than 40,000 killed in Syria, and millions of Syrian refugees suffering now in the cold of winter, it ought to shock the conscience of mankind that the U.N. will devoting more than 80 percent of this session’s resolutions to Israel, and just one, on Thursday, to Syria.”

UNbelievable: Watch how the UN treats Syria with your own eyes

This is UNbelievable. It's video of a General Assembly session on Syria, and it deserves to go viral. Make sure you watch through to the end. Let's go to the videotape. Hey - it's just Muslims killing Muslims. As long as there are no Jews involved, who cares?

How the UN Votes

Outrage as UN Report Calls for Israel Boycott; The UN investigator tasked with Israel-PA affairs openly supports a boycott of companies doing business in Israeli cities in Judea, Samaria.

The United Nations official responsible for investigating Israel-PA affairs has openly expressed support for a boycott of all companiesdoing business with Israelis east of the 1949 armistice line.

In his latest report, UN special rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Richard Falkhas called for a boycott on allcompanies tied to Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria.

Falk included “settlement expansion” as one of the reasons to boycott.

His statements have been severely condemned by Israel and its allies. Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird, quoted by the AFP news agency, called on Falk to “either withdraw this biased and disgraceful report – or resign from his position at the United Nations.”

Falk has “not only done a disservice to the United Nations, but also to the Palestinian people,” Baird charged.

Israel condemned Falk’s statements as “grossly biased.” United States UN Ambassador Susan Rice rejected his statements as well, saying, “His call for a boycott of private companies is irresponsible and unacceptable.”

Falk’s boycott statements “do nothing to further a peaceful settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and indeed poison the environment for peace,” she added.

Israeli experts say that Israel’s civilian communities in Judea and Samaria are legal under international law. The Palestinian Authority, backed by much of the international community, claims that the territories won by Jordan in 1949, and retaken by Israel in 1967, rightfully belong to Arab residents of the area for the establishment of a new Arab state.

Richard Falk was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, not by UN Chief Ban-Ki-Moon. The Human Rights Council is notoriously anti-Israel, and has gone so far as to conduct its own probes criticizing Israel in cases where other official UN reports are more balanced.

Falk’s mission was criticized from the beginning due to his biased mandate, under which he is to examine Israeli Jewish violations of Arab rights, with no mention of Arab terrorism or other Arab violations of Israeli rights. The appointment of Falk, specifically, also came under fire due to his past extremist statements, including claims of a U.S. cover-up in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Silence on Gaza rockets gives terror a green light, Israeli envoy warns UNRon Prosor says there could be ‘tragic consequences’ if Security Council doesn’t condemn Gaza terror

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations called on the Security Council Wednesday to issue a statement condemning fire from Gaza, after more than 80 rockets slammed into southern Israel over a single day.

Ron Prosor warned Security Council members that if they don’t condemn the rocket attacks, “there could be tragic consequences” because Hamas and other terrorists will interpret the silence “as a green light for terror and provocation.”

On Wednesday, terrorists fired a barrage of rockets into the towns surrounding the Gaza Strip, injuring five civilians — three of them foreign workers — and damaging eight houses. Israeli retaliatory strikes on the Gaza Strip killed three Palestinians.

“The purpose for the rocket fire is to kill Israeli civilians in order to escalate the situation in the region and bring a confrontation,” Prosor wrote.

A Cairo-brokered ceasefire between the sides was reportedly to take effect at midnight.

Prosor often asks the Security Council to condemn rocket fire during escalations in the south, though with little success.

Earlier this month, he sent a letter to the body slamming them for remaining silent on attacks emanating from Gaza while being quick to address Syrian violations.

“The Council has slept through more than 12,000 rocket attacks against Israelis over the past decade. We applaud the Security Council’s condemnation last week – and expect the Council to act with the same speed and conviction to condemn the rocket fire targeting one million Israeli civilians,” he wrote.

Sudan to UN: Condemn Israel for bombing

Meanwhile, Sudan’s UN envoy asked the Security Council to condemn Israel for what it said was a bombing of a weapons factory in Khartoum Wednesday.

“Four Israeli aircraft invaded our airspace and perpetrated this heinous attack,” Daffa-Alla Elhag Ali Osman told a UN Security Council meeting on the Darfur conflict, AFP reported.  ”We reject such aggression and expect your esteemed council to condemn this attack because it is a blatant violation of the concept of peace and security.”

Israel did not respond to the reports of involvement in the bombing.

Osman also accused Jerusalem of aiding Darfurian rebels and said Israel was ”jeopardizing peace and security in the entire region.”

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