SHARANSKY CALLS U.N. ON HYPOCRISY

UN Human Rights Chief Hopes for Balance on Israel - Herb Keinon
During a meeting in Geneva Thursday, Minister of Diaspora Affairs Natan Sharansky asked High Commissioner of the UN's Human Rights Commission Louise Arbour, how is it that Israel, a democratic nation which has many mechanisms to monitor human rights violations, is the only country to receive a "special" status in the commission's annual report on human rights across the globe and is the only country that is given a chapter of its own, while some UN members are totalitarian states in which citizens have no rights? Arbour replied that she hopes that in the framework of the new reforms being discussed in the UN, Israel will receive more balanced treatment, especially in forums that deal with human rights. (Jerusalem Post)

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The UN delegitimizes the self-determination of the Jewish people, denies Israel the right to defend itself, and demonizes it in the framework of the international regime of human rights protection. The UN also encourages terrorism directed at Israelis. The UN has played a major role in the failure to defeat racism. The organization has become the leading global purveyor of anti-Semitism, intolerance, and inequality against the Jewish people and their state. In June 2004 the UN organized its first conference on anti-Semitism after almost 60 years of existence. It became just one more element in the organization's effort to separate anti-Semitism and Jews from Israel. (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs)