Anti-Israel Bias
“Please, turn the camera away, turn the camera upwards,” Mayadeen TV correspondent says after the rocket impacted in a Gaza neighborhood.
“It took him 8 days, 19 delegations, Human Rights Council President, UN Secretary General’s Spokesperson, UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief & countless organizations to speak out against his anti-Semitic comments, for him to finally react,” wrote Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva.
The latest chapter in the spat between the multinational conglomerate and the Burlington, Vt.-based ice-cream maker known for its far-left social values and support for BDS.
Anne Herzberg, legal advisor for NGO Monitor, blasted in a tweet: “Shocking letter from Miloon Kothari to UNHRC president. He admits that his remarks were not taken out of context.”
Questions about former “Stern” editor Henri Nannen may lead to name changes for the journalism school and the prize that bear his name.
An Endowment for Middle East Truth webinar
The ice-cream maker sued Unilever after it announced that it would be selling the rights to produce the dessert products in Israel to American Quality Products Ltd., owned by businessman Avi Zinger.
Former student Danielle Greyman, 23, is arguing that she did not pass because her paper about crimes committed by Hamas against Palestinians did not blame the Jewish state.
U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt described statements by Indian human-rights expert Miloon Kothari as “outrageous,” adding that it was “unacceptable that such comments would come from an appointed member of a Commission of Inquiry.”
Miloon Kothari alleged that social media is largely controlled by “Jewish lobby.”
“I want to set Israel on fire with my own hands & watch it burn to ashes along with every Israeli in it. Call it what you want to call it,” Neveen Ayesh wrote in 2014.
He is accused of “transferring and facilitating the entry” of a non-Muslim journalist into the city, which is the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammed and location of Islam’s holiest site, the Kaaba.
