Propaganda: Israel Violates UN Resolutions
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has a history of obsessive anti-Israel bias at the cost of other far more pressing international human rights concerns.
In reality, this body ignores horrific human rights violations and falsely focuses its attention on Israel.
The UNHRC somehow manages to ignore ALL the atrocities occurring in some of the other 191 countries in the world. For example, in 2006, the Indian army opened fire at peaceful protesters at Kakopathar in Assam and at least ten people were killed. Was the violation of the human rights of these innocent people, murdered by the Indian army, not worthy of a condemnation by the UNHRC?The Council also managed to avoid condemning the government of Sri Lanka for the June 17 Pelasi Church attack in which government troops shot at houses and at Our Lady of Heart Church in Mannar, killing six civilians and injuring at least 47. They similarly said nothing about the August 14 Chencholai bombing when the Sri Lankan Air Force bombed what it said was a rebel camp, killing 61 girls aged 16 to 18. Were their human rights not violated?
Quite amazingly, while the Council managed to condemn Israel eight times that year, it did not condemn those who attacked Israel during that same time period. For example, on April 17, 2006, a Palestinian suicide bomber walked into a restaurant in the heart of Tel Aviv and detonated himself, killing eleven people ages 16 to 73, and injuring 70. Why wasn’t the Palestinian leadership, which called the attack an act of “self-defense,” condemned for allowing and encouraging such human rights violations?
This blatant anti-Israel bias continued and over the Council’s first decade, it condemned Israel 62 times while issuing just 55 condemnations for the rest of the world combined.
UNHRC’s members
The Council’s lack of true concern for human rights violations around the world and its single-minded focus against Israel became most conspicuous in June 2007 when its members voted 46-1, to make Israel’s actions a permanent item on the Council’s agenda. From that point and onward, every meeting of the UNHRC includes Item #7 on the agenda: Israel and its “human rights violations.” The United States, Australia, and numerous European countries have been critical of the Council for this fixed agenda item, noting that the Council does not scrutinize countries with far worse rights records than Israel. (In June 2018, the United States pulled out of the UNHRC because of its anti-Israel bias, labeling the organization as “a cesspool of political bias.”)
The final dimension of the UNHRC farce are the countries which have been allowed to sit on the 47-member council. Just to give one example, in 2017, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola were given seats on the Council. Angola and the DRC are countries known for gender-based violence, restrictions of freedom of expression, harassment of opposition leaders, lack of fair and free elections, suppression of freedom of assembly, discrimination against women, minorities, and people with disabilities, and persecution of the LGBT community.
Part of the mandate of the UNHRC is to “address important thematic human rights” such as “freedom of assembly, freedom of expression, freedom of belief and religion, LGBT rights, and the rights of racial and ethnic minorities.” How can they have been given the reins to monitor and condemn human rights violations around the world if they are in constant violation of those rights as outlined by the UN itself?
This stands in stark contrast with Israel where there is complete freedom of speech, freedom to protest, religious freedom, full equal rights for women, LGBT rights, open and fair democratic elections, and laws protecting women, minorities, and people with disabilities from discrimination.
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