Saudi Arabia Wins Bid to Behead of UN Human Rights Council Panel per View from Geneva

The United Nations is beyond belief time to for decent democratic countries to boycott this vile organisation.

'GENEVA, September 20, 2015 – U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power and EU foreign minister Federica Mogherini should condemn and work to reverse the appointment of Saudi Arabia as head of a key UN Human Rights Council panel that selects top officials who shape international human rights standards and report on violations worldwide, said UN Watch, a non-governmental watchdog organization based in Geneva.

"It is scandalous that the UN chose a country that has beheaded more people this year than ISIS to be head of a key human rights panel," said UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer. "Petro-dollars and politics have trumped human rights."

"Saudi Arabia has arguably the worst record in the world when it comes to religious freedom and women's rights, and continues to imprison the innocent blogger Raif Badawi," Neuer added.

"This UN appointment is like making a pyromaniac into the town fire chief, and underscores the credibility deficit of a human rights council that already counts Russia, Cuba, China, Qatar and Venezuela among its elected members."'

Per UN Watch http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/2015/09/20/saudi-arabia-wins-bid-to-behead-of-un-human-rights-council-panel/

Top 10 Worst U.N. Decisions Of 2014

http://www.buzzfeed.com/unwatch/top-10-worst-un-decisions-of-2014-16hdk?sub=3543930_4535524&s=mobile#4535524

Where's the outrage in the United Nations or online?

Even the BBC are reporting that:

'A jihadist group in Syria has demanded that Christians in the northern city of Raqqa pay a levy in gold and accept curbs on their faith, or face death.

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) said it would give Christian residents "protection" if they agreed to the list of conditions.

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Correspondents say ISIS is trying to implement an extreme interpretation of Islamic law in areas it controls.

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The directive from ISIS, citing the Islamic concept of "dhimma", requires Christians in the city to pay tax of around half an ounce (14g) of pure gold in exchange for their safety.

It says Christians must not make renovations to churches, display crosses or other religious symbols outside churches, ring church bells or pray in public.

Christians must not carry arms, and must follow other rules imposed by ISIS (also known as ISIL) on their daily lives.

The statement said the group had met Christian representatives and offered them three choices - they could convert to Islam, accept ISIS' conditions, or reject their control and risk being killed.

"If they reject, they are subject to being legitimate targets, and nothing will remain between them and ISIS other than the sword," the statement said.

A group of 20 Christian leaders chose to accept the new set of rules, ISIS said.

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Many Christians fled after ISIS started attacking and burning churches. '

Several things strike me about this report:
1. Where are the human rights organisations protesting this attack on freedom of religion? The organisations that are always ready to condemn Israel for any perceived slight on Islam.
2. Where's the United Nations outrage?
3. Where's the headline news on the BBC or in The Guardian or Independent that would appear if Israel stopped one Muslim from worshipping exactly where he wanted?

The lack of outrage from the above organisations would almost make one believe that they were in some way biased against Israel.

In 2014 China, Cuba, Russia and Saudi Arabia became members of the United Nations Human Rights Council - Does that seem right to you?

The United Nations has forfeited the right to make moral judgements.

The United Nations translator that told the truth

I think I posted this story when it broke but here's the video and transcript, thanks to Harry's Place and UN Watch

“I mean, I think when you have five statements, not five, 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.”

The United Nation's obsession with demonising Israel whilst ignoring horrific human rights abuses across  much of the Muslim world is both vile and predictable bearing in mind the malign influence of the OIC.

Blockading Gaza

From Ma'an

'Israel plans to impose a 500-meter buffer zone along its border with the Gaza Strip, a senior Israeli military official said Sunday.

Israeli residents living in neighborhoods close to the Gaza border have received eviction notices.
Homeowners who received eviction orders demonstrated against the decision and burned tires in protest.

Army bulldozers have also uprooted trees in the border area.

The army has demolished 13 homes in the neighborhood where tunnel entrances were found.

An Israeli military official told Ma'an that most cross-border tunnels with entrances in fields or open areas had been destroyed in a security campaign to stop smuggling. He said it was more difficult to locate tunnels that opened into houses. '

Quick alert the United Nations, get the BBC on the case.

Oh hold on, the above is not quite the text of the article in Ma'an. Here's the actual text

'Egypt plans to impose a 500-meter buffer zone along its border with the Gaza Strip, a senior Egyptian military official said Sunday.

Egyptian residents living in Saladin, al-Barahmeh, Canada, Brazil, al-Sarsouriya and other neighborhoods close to the Gaza border have received eviction notices.

Homeowners who received eviction orders demonstrated against the decision and burned tires in protest.

Army bulldozers have also uprooted trees in the border area.

The army has demolished 13 homes in the al-Sarsouriya neighborhood where tunnel entrances were found.

An Egyptian military official told Ma'an that most cross-border tunnels with entrances in fields or open areas had been destroyed in a security campaign to stop smuggling. He said it was more difficult to locate tunnels that opened into houses.'

It's not Israel, it's Egypt; so don't bother the United Nations, let the BBC continue to blacken Israel's name.

More here http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/no-one-seems-to-complain-when-egypt.html

Israel accused of gassing Palestinian refugee camp

Evil, evil, evil. I await the wall to wall media coverage, the United Nations condemnation, the screaming protests outside the Israeli embassy & general opprobrium.

Sorry, my mistake, it was Syria not Israel. Expect no media coverage, no United Nations interest & protests. Nothing to see, Jews can't be blamed.

More here http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israel-accused-of-gassing-palestinian-refugee-camp/

The time has come to admit the truth: The world cares more about the life of a Palestinian than the life of a Syrian, Sudanese, Kenyan, Colombian or Congolese.

'The time has come to admit the truth: The world cares more about the life of a Palestinian than the life of a Syrian, Sudanese, Kenyan, Colombian or Congolese.
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An in-depth look at these two agencies reveals the depth of the international community's preferential treatment of Palestinian refugees over other displaced people throughout the world. The UNHCR, which cares for 33.9 million refugees and internally displaced people (IDP) in more than 125 countries throughout the world, has a budget of just $3 billion. UNWRA , which cares for the five million descendents of Palestinian refugees, has a budget of over $1 billion. Per person, that is $88.50 for each refugee/IDP around the world, and $200 for each Palestinian refugee.

 It gets worse.

The UNHCR has 7,685 staff members, with a staff-to-client ratio of 1:4,411. UNRWA has more than four times the staff. With 29,602 members, the organization boasts a staff-to-client ratio of 1:168.

Allow me to reiterate: The organization tasked with caring for the descendents of Palestinian refugees has 26 times more staff members per client than the organization tasked with caring for refugees and IDPs in the entire rest of the world put together.'

More here http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4384541,00.html

Why does the world 'care' so much more about Palestinian 'refugees' than those from Sudan, Congo or Syria? Is it because they can blame Jews for the Palestinians plight?

Breathtaking hypocrisy at the United Nations

'GENEVA, May 22 – The annual assembly of the UN's World Health Organization adopted a resolution
 and held a special debate today criticizing Israel — the only specific country on the organization's agenda — with Syria demanding urgent action on "inhuman Israeli practices" that target "the health of Syrian citizens."

The WHO resolution against Israel was not yet published, but was likely a copy of last year's condemnation
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Observers of the world body in Geneva said the annual hypocrisy reached a new low this year.
"To see the Assad regime point the finger at Israel out of professed concern for the health of Syrians is, frankly, a sick joke," said Hillel Neuer, exectuive director of the Geneva-based UN Watch, a non-governmental monitoring group accredited to the UN.'

More here http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/2013/05/22/hypocrisy-syria-un-health-assembly-slam-israel/#.UZ25vDw-irs.twitter

United Nations hypocrisy

United Nations hypocrisy

Jews are a peculiar people

It's an interesting and thought provoking sentiment, but not one that the BBC will recognise the truth of.

There is a country where hundreds of thousands of people live out their lives in prison camps

Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Kaechon #14, one of the world's harshest labour camps. His parents were political prisoners, declared enemies of the state for having committed minor offenses against the North Korean regime. His mother was executed in front of him. Shin was routinely subjected to torture and knew nothing of the outside world until his escape at the age of 23. There are still around 200,000 other forced laborers currently languishing under the regime of Kim Jong-un.

Where is the international outcry?

Where are the protests outside the North Korean embassy on Gunnersbury Avenue in Ealing, London?

Where are the protests from the brave people who stand up to Israeli genoicide? Are these protestors really more concerned with destroying the Jewish state than with human rights?

The world is not an elementary school - The latest Israeli/Palestinian spat explained....

It's shame that the people who should watch and learn from this video won't because their minds are closed to the truth. I'm referring first to the majority of United Nations countries who support the Palestinians either because they are representing a Muslim nation and thus are opposed to Israel, are representing a Communist state who have allied themselves with the OIC in order to diminish the power of the USA or are so in thrall to/scared of Islamists that they don't dare stand up for what is right. I'm referring second to the majority of the western media, especially the BBC, who buy the Palestinian story and spread anti-Israel hatred.

The United Nations has an unhealthy fixation on Israel

UN Watch reports that:

'According to a comprehensive UN Watch study of all U.N. General Assembly draft resolutions of its current 67th session, counting the one just approved today,  the world body plans to adopt a total of 21 resolutions singling out Israel for criticism in one form or another (see draft texts below) — and 4 resolutions for the rest of the world combined.
 
The four are: one on Syria, a regime that has murdered 40,000 of its own people, and one each on Iran, North Korea and Burma, whose government was largely praised in the U.N. text.

There will be no UNGA resolutions at all on China, Cuba, Belarus, Zimbabwe, Russia, Sudan, Venezuela, Pakistan — and all the rest.'

The United Nations is not about right and wrong, it is about how many friends and allies you have. There are 56 members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, pledged to promote Muslim solidarity in economic, social, and political affairs. They usually vote as a bloc, that's 56 out of 193 UN member states. Add in oil reliant African countries, South & Central American socialist paradises and sundry rogue regimes and you can see why OIC members are only rarely criticised, and then only when they have done something truly abhorrent. 

Hatred of Israel, and for many that does mean hatred of Jews, is something that can unite the United Nations. Shame it's at the expense of the only democratic, multicultural state in the Middle East though!

Hillel Neuer of UN Watch tells some truths to the United Nations's Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council

Alfred-Maurice de Zayas is a Cuban born American lawyer, writer and historian. His work has focused on the judicial protection of peoples and minorities and he has written and lectured lectured extensively on human rights, including the jurisprudence of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, Guantanamo Bay and other areas including the rights of indigenous peoples. He is an advocate of "the right to homeland" as a universal human right. Mr de Zayas has been a very vocal critic of the Iraq War, indefinite detention in Guantanamo Bay and secret CIA prisons, of nuclear pollution and of extreme poverty. He has chastised the United States, Great Britain, and Germany for their lack of intellectual honesty and their lip service to human rights. Mr de Zayas is also a 'leading expert' in the field of human rights and international law, a peace activist, and since 2012 the United Nations Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order as appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council. I think that from this short biography you get a flavour of Mr de Zayas's world view. The incredible Hilel Neuer of UN Watch tackled Mr de Zayas recently, here's the video. Do also enjoy the breattaking hypocrisy of the Cuban delegate. I have posted about Hillel Neuer before, do take a look here. However here are some more videos of Hillel Neuer in action, a very brave man indeed. UN Watch's Hillel Neuer addresses the UN Human Rights Council to decry its special agenda item and debate on Israel, at a time when the surrounding Middle East is aflame with massacres and rights abuses. Geneva, June 14, 2011. UN Watch's Hillel Neuer exposes the hypocrisy of the UN Human Rights Council, the body that created the Goldstone Report. The Council president, Amb. Luis Alfonso de Alba of Mexico, rejects the speech as "inadmissible" -- and bans it from ever being delivered again. Why the U.N. always votes against Israel (Explained by U.N. Watch's Hillel Neuer) A human rights group says members of the Iranian delegation disrupted its speech Thursday to the United Nations racism conference in Switzerland. U.N. Watch issued a statement contending that Iran twice interrupted the speech to call for points of order as the group's speaker addressed the plight of Ahmed Batebi, who had spoken to the conference earlier about being tortured by Iranian authorities. The statement said the Iranians twice called on the chair of the session "to instruct U.N. Watch to stick to the agenda item under discussion, which was 'objectives of the conference.'" The reported incident was the latest in a stormy conference for the Iranians, whose outspoken president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, blasted Israel in a speech this week, prompting many delegates to walk out. U.N. Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer was allowed to complete his address Thursday, in which he chided the conference for, as he put it, ignoring the testimony of Batebi and other activists and political prisoners from around the world. In a conference that promised to review countries' performance on racism, "why did the conference in fact fail to review a single country that perpetrates racism, discrimination and intolerance?" Neuer said in his remarks. George Orwell and the UN Human Rights Council. UN Watch testimony, UNHRC 20th Session, delivered by Hillel Neuer, July 3, 2012.

Because Israel and Jews are an insignificant minority

At the 1972 Munich Olympics 11 Israeli athletes, and one West German policeman) were murdered by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September. 40 years on there is a campaign to hold one minutes silence for the innocent victims of a terrorist attack on the Olympics. Since the 2012 Olympics will last 17 days (around 24,460 minutes) surely one minute to remember the 11 members of the Olympic family who were killed would be simple and fair to arrange? You'd have thought so but then you have to factor in the hatred for Israel and Jews that exists in so many Islamic countries.

Ankie Spitzer, whose husband Andre was one of the athletes killed during that 1968 Munich Olympics terrorist massacre has told the European Jewish Press that Jacques Rogge, president of the IOC, told her that his "hands were tied" by the 46 Arab and Muslim members to the International Olympic Committee. Ankie Spitzer replied that "My husband’s hands were tied, not yours." Ankie Spitzer called the Olympics "a corrupt organization, led by greed rather than the Olympic spirit." She added that "The IOC’s refusal is pure discrimination – greed and anti-Semitism."

I don't believe the IOC is anti-Semitic but a large number of its member states are, enough to block any commemoration of the Olympic dead. This anti-Israel bloc is not restricted to the IOC and helps to explain why the United Nations and its subsidiary bodies are so obsessed with the alleged misdeeds of Israel whilst ignoring the factual and bigger crimes against humanity committed elsewhere, often by Islamic states.

Does the United Nations have a finely developed sense of the ridiculous?

The brilliant UN Watch reports that:

'GENEVA, July 8 - Iran was elected to a top post on the UN Arms Trade Treaty conference, revealed UN Watch today in an exclusive report. The Geneva-based human rights group is calling on UN chief Ban Ki-moon, who addressed the conference on the same day, to condemn the selection of the Tehran regime.'

As UN Watch's Hillel Neuer said:

"Right after a UN Security Council report found Iran guilty of illegally transferring guns and bombs to Syria, which is now murdering thousands of its own people, it defies logic, morality and common sense for the UN to now elect this same regime to a global post regulating the transfer of guns and bombs.. This is like choosing Bernie Madoff to police fraud on the stock market. And the U.N.’s scandalous choice of Iran is exactly why we fear that Syria’s declared bid for a U.N. Human Rights Council seat is not impossible."

One difference between Israel and the palestinian Authority

In Israel Muslims can own land, vote, be elected to the Knesset (Parliament), become judges; in short have the same rights as Jews. In the Palestinian Authority administered 'West Bank' this is not the case for Jews: currently at least 16 Palestinians are in PA prisons for selling property to Jews. I am informed that nine of these Palestinians face the death penalty.

It is illegal in the Palestinian Authority territory to sell land to Jews. Where is the international outrage? Where is the cry of 'apartheid'? Where is the BBC documentary team? Why is it only Israel that is censured, when the Palestinians often are more discriminatory and certainly more filled with hate?

The Palestinian cause is bogus and Israel is not the apartheid state

Pat Condell again... and well worth a listen