Anne Bayefsky
Israel Hayom, Nov. 8, 2022
“Not a single recommendation was directed to Palestinians. The report never mentioned the word “terrorism,” Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad. It was, in short, a farce masquerading as law.”
Antisemitism at the United Nations may be as ubiquitous as the United Nations’ dead silence on human rights violations around the world, but rarely has it been as brazen and transparent as on Oct. 27, 2022.
A presentation of a report to the General Assembly of a unique UN commission of inquiry on Israel, followed by a press conference with the three inquisitors at UN headquarters in New York, was nasty, brutish and long-winded. Responding to the evidence-based charges of antisemitism tainting the inquiry and its members, commission of inquiry chair Navi Pillay wailed: “They’re all false and lies.” A response to her lies is essential to recognizing the real dangers of this exceptional UN attack on Israel and the Jewish people.
Background
The inquiry was created in May 2021 by the UN Human Rights Council at the behest of the Organization of Islamic states, joined by HRC members and human rights aficionados such as China, Libya, Russia, Somalia, Sudan and Venezuela. The “inquiry” garnered zero Western democratic support.
Quickly appointed as members of the inquiry were three individuals who clearly lacked objectivity, impartiality and independence, despite these qualifications being mandatory under UN rules. Navi Pillay, of South Africa, who was UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014, was named chairperson, along with Miloon Kothari of India and Chris Sidoti of Australia. All were extreme anti-Israel partisans who had pronounced themselves on the subject matter of the “inquiry” before passing go. …source