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The Human Rights Council’s inquiry on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “is further demonstration of long-standing, disproportionate attention given to Israel.”
“Any organization that doesn’t treat Israel as a legitimate and contributing nation does not deserve U.S. support or participation,” the Tennessee Republican said.
Geneva-based diplomats learn about the Jewish state’s challenges and society.
The United States withdrew from the U.N. cultural organization in 2018 under President Donald Trump due to its anti-Israel bias.
A draft of the plan that JNS reviewed gives equal weight to the IHRA, Nexus and Jerusalem Declaration definitions of antisemitism.
The report will “bolster BDS and marginalize Jews that speak out against terrorism and antisemitism,” said the pro-Israel organization.
The Geneva-based executive director of UN Watch discussed some of the battles he’s waged over the past two decades.
For Israel to be listed in the annex of the U.N.'s “Children and Armed Conflict” report would be a “major blow,” says NGO Monitor.
“This decision, which defies all logic and reason, is an insult to the millions of Iranians protesting for their basic freedoms,” stated Israel’s Foreign Ministry.
“These cassettes, now recognized on a global scale, hold historical, cultural and social importance,” said Jewish Museum Berlin curator Tamar Lewinsky.
Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield says Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas’s recent comments are a “gross affront to Holocaust victims and survivors.”
“International efforts to fight antisemitism can only succeed if reflecting the actual realities faced by Jews today,” B’nai B’rith CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin.
