Category: UN

Taken from UNHRC webcast:
MRAP (France):
“Despite the dozens of resolutions adopted by various UN bodies condemning the actions of the state of Israel, colonial occupation follows the destruction, massacres follow the abuses, and the international law is constantly trampled.”
FIDH, PCHR (Raji Sourani) (Norway, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, European Union):
“The smell of death and destruction [...]

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On July 22 and 23, 2009, The UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will hold an NGO conference examining “Responsibility of the international community to uphold international humanitarian law to ensure the protection of civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory in the wake of the war in Gaza”.  [...]

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Given the heavy dependence by the UN Inquiry on the Gaza War on NGO reports and testimonies, NGO Monitor submitted a report to the commission led by Judge Richard Goldstone. NGO Monitor provided fact sheets on the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), Al Mezan, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW). NGO Monitor’s report [...]

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The Arab League’s “Fact Finding” Mission to Gaza presented a report of its findings and called for future lawfare against Israel.  John Dugard, the notorious UN Rapporteur, led the team and the EU and European government funded PCHR “prepared the agenda for the mission and coordinated its meetings and field visits. It also provided technical [...]

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A UN report accusing Israel of intentionally attacking UN buildings in Gaza strongly reflects the biases and lack of credibility of the NGO network during the Gaza fighting. As demonstrated in NGO Monitor’s comprehensive study, The NGO Front in the Gaza War: The Durban Strategy Continues, NGO reports exhibited double standards, focused overwhelmingly on condemning [...]

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French philosopher and writer, Bernard-Henri Lévy, attended the Durban Review Conference which he considers a “total failure”. Here he argues that the only condition under which a repeat can be avoided is the dissolution of the Human Rights Council.
After Durban II, the Question of the United Nations, Bernard-Henri Levy, Huffington Post, April 28, 2009
Now the [...]

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Jan Lonn, head of the Swedish-based World Against Racism Network, is active in many radical NGO activities. Lonn has recently implied that Jewish groups sabotaged the DRC in an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) saying “there has been very strong opposition from some NGO circles, some interest groups, against the Durban Review Conference.”
The [...]

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At two Durban Review Conference NGO side-events on Tuesday, April 21, 2009, participants called for a minute of silence, but the two moments could not have been more different.
In the first, “Racism: The road to genocide” organized by the Simon Wiesenthal Center and other groups, panelist Prof. Charles Small called for the audience to rise [...]

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News sources the world over have reported on the mass walkout, namely by European states, during Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s hateful speech at the UN yesterday.
Delegates walk out on Ahmadinejad, Tovah Lazaroff, Jerusalem Post, April 20, 2009
Upon hearing his opening barbs against Israel, the French delegation stood up and walked out. Some 40 diplomats from [...]

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On Sunday, April 19, 2009, the Simon Wiesenthal Center reported from Geneva on the Israel Review Conference and the Civil Society Forum – two NGO-organized parallel events designed to demonize Israel in the fashion of the first Durban conference in 2001 which notoriously embarrassed the UN for its blatant anti-semitism. (See Durban parallel slams ‘Israeli [...]

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