Video of the week - Nikki Hayley’s speech - https://tinyurl.com/ydbstb92
From: UN Watch 27-12-2017
10. The
U.N.'s Beirut-based agency of 18 Arab states, ESCWA, published a report
accusing Israel of “Apartheid.”
In
response, UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer took the floor to ask
Algeria, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Lebanon, Yemen, and the others, a simple
question: “Where
are your Jews?” For once, the
room was silenced. UN Watch's speech went viral on the Internet, with the video
viewed 5 million times worldwide.
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9. The
U.N. women's rights commission condemned Israel as the world's
only violator of women's rights. Real abusers of women's rights, such as Iran, Yemen, and
Afghanistan, were ignored.
The next
month, UN Watch exposed
the U.N.'s election of Saudi Arabia to this same women's rights
commission—and the fact that at least five EU states voted for the Saudis. The
story went
viral, and created a major scandal in Belgium, where the prime
minister eventually admitted their vote and apologized, and sparked
controversies in Ireland, Norway and Sweden. Click
for video.
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8. In
June, 16 U.N. agencies signed an agreement with the "State of Palestine" to spend an unprecedented $18
million to fund lawfare attacks on Israel, couched in the language
of human rights, international law and "accountability."
The U.N.
campaign seeks to erode Israel's ability to defend itself from terrorist
attacks by Hamas and Hezbollah. As noted
by Fox News, "UN Watch, an independent monitoring group based
in Switzerland, was one of the first places to highlight and criticize the U.N.
spending; executive director Hillel Neuer called on the United States, Canada,
and Australia and other democracies to ensure that their taxpayer contributions
are not being misused to undermine U.N. institutions through an escalation of
politicized attacks on Israel.”
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7. In
October, U.N. Palestine Rapporteur Michael Lynk issued
a report advocating an economic boycott of Israeli companies.
When Lynk
arrived at U.N. headquarters in New York for his annual press conference, he
was startled when three different journalists challenged him over his biased
report and mandate. The reporters were prompted by UN
Watch’s complaint letter to the Secretary-General which objected to
Lynk’s call for a boycott and his ignoring of human rights abuses by the
Palestinian Authority and Hamas. Lynk falsely claimed to be “unaware” that he
could reference Palestinian violations of human rights.
Thanks to
UN Watch’s campaign, the U.S. government issued a statement saying that
"Mr. Lynk’s remarks, and the very existence of this report, underscore the
Human Rights Council’s chronic anti-Israel bias. The United States will
continue to oppose attempts to undermine the UN system through actions that
unfairly target Israel."
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6. The
UN's World Health Organization singled out Israel as the only violator in the world of “mental,
physical and environmental health, ” and, under pressure from Syria’s Assad
regime, deleted
parts of a report on Israeli actions in the Golan Heights—because
they were positive to Israel.
5.
Dubravka Simonovic, the U.N. expert on vioence against women, visited Israel
and the territories and concluded:
When
Palestinian men beat their wives, it's Israel's fault.
UN
Watch's executive director took the floor to challenge the U.N. investigator's
report: “Why did you fail to mention that official Palestinian TV regularly
broadcasts Islamic preachers who tell the people how to beat their wives?”
In
reaction, the Egyptian chair of the meeting broke with parliamentary protocol:
“I would like to say thank you, but I can’t,” said Ambassador Amr Ramadan.
“Because I think that you need to respect this council more.” Click
for video.
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3. UNESCO negated its mandate to protect
world heritage by adopting a resolution recognizing Hebron—second holiest city in Judaism because of the
Tomb of the Patriarchs—as a Palestinian world heritage site.
UN Watch revealed
that UNESCO had rejected its own experts' advice, who opposed the Palestinian
nomination on account of failing to properly recognize Hebron’s Jewish and
Christian heritage.
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2. UNRWA
launched a global campaign showing the picture of an 11-year-old girl, “Aya
from Gaza,” in a bombed-out building—portraying
Israel as a cruel oppressor of Palestinian children—but UN Watch exposed it as
a fraud: the
photo was actually from Syria. The story went viral online. UNRWA
suffered massive embarrassment, and was forced to remove the photo worldwide.
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1. The
office of U.N. human rights commissioner Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein spent the past year preparing to inflame the
anti-Israel boycott campaign by drawing up a blacklist of companies that do
business in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem and other Jewish communities over
the 1949 armistice line. The report is due to be submitted this month, and
presented before the council in March. UN Watch will take the lead in
countering the blacklist—what Nikki Haley this week called
the "ugly creation" of the UNHRC.
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