A performance evaluation on Louise Arbour. It ain’t pretty. Excerpted from UN Watch: A new study on Louise Arbour’s performance as UN rights chief gives her mixed reviews on confronting violators, and urges her replacement, Navanethem Pillay, to adopt a stronger approach toward UN heavyweights such as China, Russia and Egypt. The Right to Name and Shame, a 48-page report by UN Watch...
Stop Funding Demonizing NGOs
From Stop Funding Demonizing NGOs: For many years, Israel has been attacked by non-government organizations (NGOs) that invent (or distort) the terms of international law, falsify facts, and violate the universality of human rights. Some of the NGOs promoting the demonization campaigns get more than half their annual budgets from European governments. Additional funds come from the Ford...
Gillerman to UN: Israel Will Defend Itself
By equating the death of innocent Israeli Amnon Rosenberg from a barbaric Hamas attack with the death of a palestinian girl from an Israeli defensive measure, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sanctions palestinian violence. To equate aggression with defense is immoral. From Gillerman to UN: Israel Will Defend Itself: Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Dan Gillerman, launched a formal complaint...
UN Targets World Union for Progressive Judaism
From UN Targets World Union for Progressive Judaism: More than 3,000 non-governmental organizations, or NGOs, are officially accredited by the UN, entitling these groups to enter UN premises, get access to meetings and decision-makers, and speak at UN bodies like the Human Rights Council. However, on Tuesday, the UN Committee on Non-governmental Organizations is poised to revoke these basic...
Amnesty in 2007: Attacking Democracy instead of Oppression in Middle East
Promoting accountability in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Via NGO Monitor: Summary: NGO Monitor has systematically analyzed Amnesty International’s Middle East coverage in 2007, applying a quantitative methodology, similar to that used to examine the agenda of Human Rights Watch. The results show that in 2007 Amnesty singled out Israel for more condemnation than Syria, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Lebanon...
Durban II Videos: A conference to redefine “antisemitism”
Durban II is the next UN “anti-racism” conference – certain to be a global platform for antisemitism and the demonization of Israel. Planning for the 2009 hatefest is already underway. Here are two more videos from Eye On The UN. The first is of the Libyan Chairperson, Najat Al-Hajjaji, silencing criticism of efforts to redefine antisemitism at Durban II. Click here to watch...
Hamas Seizing Half of All Fuel Sent to Gaza, Creating False Gas Crisis
From Hamas Seizing Half of All Fuel Sent to Gaza, Creating False Gas Crisis: Hamas seizes half the fuel Israel sends to Gaza and uses it in part for its military vehicles, Israeli and PA officials said Thursday. Hussein al-Sheikh, a PA official, said Hamas seizes 400,000 of the 800,000 liters of diesel fuel transferred to Gaza weekly and intended for uses such as generators, hospitals, water...
Legless Jewish Chicks Preventing Hot Arab Chicks from Getting Any
The excellent Julia Gorin writes that in a standardly anti-Jewish Christian Science Monitor article titled “The Arabs on the Outside”, which details the hindered lives of some palestinians thanks to the security wall that Israel has built (and made adjustments to when the situation demands) has also created a mobility problem for Arabs living on the other side of it. The article highlights the...
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