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UN Human Rights commissioner calls Jew-hate ‘an assault on our collective humanity’

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The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, delivered a statement on Wednesday before a workshop geared to counter antisemitism, sponsored by the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations in Geneva. “Antisemitism is a scourge on our collective humanity,”...

The United Nations must return to its founding spirit

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Almost 80 years ago, the nations that stood up to Nazi tyranny founded the United Nations. They came together in the wreckage of World War II and the Holocaust to ensure that the world’s...
Iran's Ambassador to the United Nations Ali Bahreini, March 20, 2023. Source: Twitter/U.N. Human Rights Council.

Iran secures chair of technology forum at UN Human Rights Council

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In the same week that Iran hanged two men for their activity on social media, the U.N. Human Rights Council appointed Tehran as chair of a forum focused on using technology to promote human...
United Nations Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. Credit: UNHRC.

Israel, US slam UN envoy over antisemitic comments

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Israel and the United States on Wednesday slammed United Nations envoy Francesca Albanese over antisemitic statements she made in 2014 that recently resurfaced. Albanese, the U.N. Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on the situation of...
Francesca Albanese. Source: Twitter.

UN envoy to Hamas: ‘You have the right to fight Israel’

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Italian lawyer Francesca Albanese, the United Nations’ special rapporteur for the Palestinians, spoke at a Hamas-organized conference in Gaza on Monday. She plans to continue on to Israel, which is considering refusing her entry. Senior members...

Members of Congress call for special UN Human Rights Council session on Iran

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Several members of Congress have sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield urging them to convene a special session of the U.N....
A fisheye view of the Palais des Nations, the United Nations Headquarter in Geneva, Switzerland. Credit: LO Kin-hei/Shutterstock.

Anti-Semitic UN Human Rights Council ‘investigator’ says the quiet part out loud

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That a U.N. official would go on the record with anti-Semitic comments ought to be enough to engender outrage and involve consequences for the person involved. But sometimes, a controversy over something terrible that someone said...
National flags at the entrance of U.N European headquarters in Switzerland. The U.N. office was established in Geneva in 1947 and is home to the U.N. Human Rights Council. Credit: Giorgio Caracciolo/Shutterstock.

21 countries defend Israel against UN Commission of Inquiry, scathing first report

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While an official U.N. Commission of Inquiry seeks Israel’s diplomatic isolation, 21 nations came out in support of the Jewish state on Monday, expressing concern about the commission’s uncommonly broad mandate and the U.N....
U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. Credit: Peter Stein/Shutterstock.

Pro-Israel groups say they won’t let UN ‘kangaroo court’ go unchallenged

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A collection of pro-Israel organizations has decided that an unprecedented attack on Israel requires a response. Israel faces a first-time-ever open-ended U.N. Commission of Inquiry created by the U.N. Human Rights Council, which includes notorious...
Francesca Albanese. Source: Twitter.

New UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian issues compared ‘nakba’ to Holocaust

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The U.N. Human Rights Council announced the appointment of a new Special Rapporteur on Israel on April 1, a position that is a “mandate to discriminate,” according to the UN Watch NGO. Israel is...