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| | A group of pro-Israel South Africans has invoked the figure of the late Nelson Mandela, the iconic leader of their country’s anti-apartheid struggle, in a forthright condemnation of the recent UN Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry (COI) report that blamed Israel’s “perpetual occupation” for the ongoing conflict with the Palestinians.</blockquote></ref> | | A group of pro-Israel South Africans has invoked the figure of the late Nelson Mandela, the iconic leader of their country’s anti-apartheid struggle, in a forthright condemnation of the recent UN Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry (COI) report that blamed Israel’s “perpetual occupation” for the ongoing conflict with the Palestinians.</blockquote></ref> |
| | In addition, during that very report work, what was exposed was the real apartheid - that on the Arab Palestinian side:<ref name=unwatch-10mar2022>[https://unwatch.org/palestinian-apartheid-exposed-at-u-n-inquiry/ Palestinian Apartheid Exposed at U.N. Inquiry], ''UN Watch'', March 10, 2022.</ref><blockquote>The report documents how the Palestinian Authority enforces a system of apartheid to ensure that every inch of territory under its control is strictly judenrein (free of Jews) by punishing Palestinian land sales to Jews with the death penalty, and by inciting the murder of Jews through financial rewards to terrorists.</blockquote> | | In addition, during that very report work, what was exposed was the real apartheid - that on the Arab Palestinian side:<ref name=unwatch-10mar2022>[https://unwatch.org/palestinian-apartheid-exposed-at-u-n-inquiry/ Palestinian Apartheid Exposed at U.N. Inquiry], ''UN Watch'', March 10, 2022.</ref><blockquote>The report documents how the Palestinian Authority enforces a system of apartheid to ensure that every inch of territory under its control is strictly judenrein (free of Jews) by punishing Palestinian land sales to Jews with the death penalty, and by inciting the murder of Jews through financial rewards to terrorists.</blockquote> |
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| − | The meeting marked the council’s 14th this year on the Israel-Palestinian file. Ordinarily, it meets monthly under this single agenda item.
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| − | Part of the international body’s critique of Israel centered on damage in what the United Nations calls a “refugee camp.” Erdan mocked that label.
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| − | “How can it be that after so many decades there are still refugee camps inside Palestinian cities?” posed Erdan. “Have you ever stopped to ask yourselves why the descendants of Palestinian refugees are still living in refugee camps? Why have they not been integrated into Palestinian society?”
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| − | Zhang Jun, China’s ambassador to the United Nations, affirmed the “just cause” of the Palestinians, best served through the creation of an independent Palestinian state, and the lifting of the blockade on Gaza, which prevents funding, weapons and materials for terrorist activity to enter the Strip.
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| − | The 2021's head of the UN Palestinian refugee agency’s mission ([[United_Nations#UNRWA_Palestine|UNRWA]]) in Gaza Matthias Schmale, who was always anti Israel, after the operation [[Guardian of the Walls]], only as much as agreed during an interview with an Israeli news channel that IDF airstrikes in Gaza were 'precise,' "Palestinians" protested against him and he had to leave the post.<ref name=toi-13aug2022/>
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| − | [[UN]] senior official official who dared to criticize [[Palestinian Islamic Jihad]] for its indiscriminate rocket attacks which triggers IDF response, lost job after BDS and pro Jihad "Palestinian" pressure.<ref name=toi-13aug2022>Jacob Magid, [https://www.timesofisrael.com/senior-un-official-loses-post-after-tweet-condemning-pij-rocket-fire-at-israel/amp/ Senior UN official loses her post after tweet condemning PIJ rocket fire at Israel], TOI'', 13 Aug 2022.<blockquote>
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| − | Every time I think the UN and its people have hit rock bottom, they prove that you can go lower. Shocking!
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| − | So this morning I contacted the UN Secretary General and made it clear that we will not accept such a double standard. Just two weeks ago, one of the "judges" in the commission of inquiry against Israel on behalf of the Human Rights Council, remained in his position even after expressing himself in a biased and even anti-Semitic manner. This is a disgrace and I will work so that the UN and the Secretary General understand the meaning of this despicable step.</blockquote></ref>
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| − | [[File:UN.Hamas1.jpg|thumb|Francesca Albanese - Hamas cheered (Graphic, a meme)]]
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| − | Watchdog, who among activists, raised alarm ahead of her appointment , that whe was not supposed to get her position in the first place for her Israelophobia record, showed, were proven right with her propaganda "report" in 2022.<ref>[https://unwatch.org/legal-analysis-of-un-palestine-rapporteur-francesca-albaneses-2023-report-to-unhrc/ Legal Analysis of UN Palestine Rapporteur Francesc Report to UNHRC], ''UN Watch'', July 4, 2023. <blockquote>UN Palestine rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s first report to the Human Rights Council proves exactly why she should never have been appointed to the position in the first place, as we warned the Council prior to her appointment in March 2022. Albanese is incapable of serving as a neutral and independent UN expert for anything involving the Palestinians, as UN rules require, and as she herself acknowledged prior to being picked for the job.</blockquote></ref>
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| − | This infamous anti-Israel F Albanese, got cheers from the terror org. [[Hamas]], naturally, after she ignored Israelis' rights to human rights in her so-called "report." Not one word about incitement or glorification of terror in Palestinian media and schools. In fact, in a two year period when more Israeli civilians are being murdered than at any time since 2008, their deaths are utterly absent. There is not even a pretense of impartiality - no paragraph buried inside the so-called "report" saying, oh by the way, armed militias are popping up in Jenin and Nablus and Hebron, or a reform? declaration that Israel has the right to defend itself. Nothing.
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