| EU High Representative Josep Borrell can't resist lumping "Palestine" among the worst human rights issues in the worldnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), | | EU High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell spoke at the 24th EU-NGO Forum on Human Rights on Wednesday.Most of his speech properly listed the worst human rights issues facing the world nowadays:
- The COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to have resulted in 6 million deaths.
- Thousands of people imprisoned in Belarus for protests.
- Over a thousand killed in Myanmar and 4,500 more in jail for protesting.
- Between 600,000 and 800,000 people dead in Ethiopia from famine and cutting off basic services.
- Afghanistan's oppression against women, the Taliban saying they were going to erase women from society.
- Russia trying to systematically destroy Ukraine, with millions of lives at risk this winter.
- Iran's killing hundreds of protestors and repressing women.
- China's persecution of a million Uyghurs.
And then after listing all of these huge and very real human rights catastrophes, Borrel just had to imply that one of the worst was Israel: That is why we are setting today a new Global Observatory on the Fight against Impunity....and we are going to allocate €20 million for that. This Observatory will gather information and build knowledge about genocide, about crimes against humanity and other serious human rights violations. They are there. I have not mentioned Palestine, for example. But what is happening in Palestine – I am...Read More |
From Ian: Herzog: Comparing Israel to apartheid South Africa is a 'blood libel' Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Thursday slammed as a "blood libel" comparisons of the Jewish state's policies towards the Palestinians to South African apartheid. "The comparison between the State of Israel and the apartheid regime is not a legitimate criticism—it is a blood libel," Herzog said in a video address to the World Zionist Organization's annual conference in Tel Aviv. "It is a dangerous and intensifying terrorism, since the legitimacy of the State of Israel and the justification of its existence is directly related to its ability to protect itself and hence they are trying to undermine this ability," he added. Herzog also described the BDS movement as a "brutal campaign" spearheaded by organizations "spreading lies and false facts and seeking to build a long-term policy that will undermine the existence of the state." He continued: "Let's make no mistake, this is not a peace-seeking campaign, it is a campaign promoting hatred and incitement." For his part, WZO chairman Yaakov Hagoel warned of a resurgence in antisemitism, which he called a "malignant cancer" that required "major medical surgery to remove… at its roots."Melanie Phillips...Read More |
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Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Nablus, December 15 - Public health authorities in both the Gaza Strip and the self-rule areas of the West Bank have launched a streamlined process to address a troubling increase in the number of citizens who have expressed a desire to kill themselves, according to the Ministry of Health: give them an explosive device and send them marching toward Israelis. Sources within the ministry - divided between the two territories since a 2007 civil war confined Fatah to the inland areas and gave Hamas control of Gaza on the Mediterranean coast - described parallel but similar initiatives directing mental health professionals and mandated reporters such as caregivers and teachers to inform ministry authorities when in the course of their work they encounter someone contemplating suicide. The referred Palestinians will then undergo a brief evaluation to determine to what degree they have resolved to off themselves, and those judged to have firm enough resolve will receive a "suicide vest" packed with nails and military-grade explosives, plus instructions to detonate themselves among as many Jews as possible. Ministry officials acknowledged some incomplete elements of the program. "We still face important obstacles," stated Mustafa Massiqr of the Hamas-run version of the ministry. "We have, fortunately...Read More |
From Ian: Seth Frantzman: Why Qatar's involvement in EU scandal may impact Middle East This kind of bargaining, using money to get influence, appears to have now brought Qatar into scandal in Europe. But Doha has seen this happen before with controversy over the World Cup and also other controversies in the US, and it has generally sailed on without much effect on its overall relations. The EU scandal seems to reveal that Qatar targeted members of the European Parliament from southern Europe and also people who are involved in human-rights and other left-leaning causes. This means that someone decided that the best people to target in influence peddling were left-leaning voices, those connected to socialist or other similar parties. But why would these voices be open to dealing with Qatar, a state that openly suppresses gay rights and is authoritarian? This is one of the perplexing aspects of how Doha has portrayed itself over the last two decades, via media such as Al Jazeera, as being different than it is. Even though Qatar is an authoritarian monarchy that not only backs far-right extremists in the Middle East, but also theocracy and suppresses workers' rights, it is able to sell itself to left-leaning voices in the West through a complex blend of preying on Orientalist ideas and pretending that its suppression of rights is merely its "culture." Once Doha has pretended that its authoritarianism and support...Read More |
By Daled Amos Francesca Albanese, the "UN Special Rapporteur Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territory Occupied Since 1967" observes the strictest standards of objectivity and impartiality. We know this because Albanese tells us so herself on her Twitter account: And this makes sense. After all, that august body -- the UN Human Rights Council -- has a code of conduct that says explicitly that mandate-holders are expected to: Uphold the highest standards of efficiency, competence and integrity, meaning, in particular, though not exclusively, probity, impartiality, equity, honesty and good faith; [emphasis added] Going a step further, just take a look at Albanese's actual job application for the position of Special Rapporteur, helpfully dug up by Times of Israel (whose article is the basis of this post) Case closed. So what are we supposed to do when she herself openly admits that contrary to what she wrote on her application form, Albanese actually does hold prejudiced views: 10/ On her application, Albanese denied holding "any views or opinions that...Read More |
Here's some more mainstream Arab antisemitism, by Muhammad Kamel Al-Ayadi in Egyptian newspaper El Yom. But this one seems to have an undercurrent of admiration as well, for the Jewish tendency not to give up in the quest to control the planet. Since Jews were captured by the Babylonian leader Nebuchadnezzar and Solomon's Temple was demolished, they have not surrendered, but keep thinking about how to control the entire world, and make the peoples of the world their slaves and servants. They succeeded in returning to Palestine in 536 BC, after they helped the Persian king Cyrus, and he stipulated that they should help him in ruling. They were able to build the temple again, but they failed to restore the kingdom of David, before the birth of Christ, in whom they refused to believe, and tried to kill him, but God saved him from them and raised him up. The Jews do not give up, but rather do the impossible in order to reach their goal. They do not get tired of the long period and do not care about any sums spent. Here we notice how different the Jewish thought is from the Arab thought. The Jew only thinks about his cause and the survival of his people and their sovereignty over the world, so they orchestrated and managed revolutions in the world, and...Read More |
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