NEW YORK, July 3, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC
Executive Director David Harris, in
his Huffington Post and The Times of Israel
blogs, castigates the UN Human Rights Council for singling out
Israel for condemnation. The
47-member Council, by a vote of 41 to 1, with five 5 abstentions,
adopted a resolution today assailing the Jewish state for last
summer's war with Hamas.
"The UN Human Rights Council today once again showed its
obsession with Israel. Hard as it
may be to believe, this institution has adopted more resolutions
against Israel than all other
nations in the world combined," said Harris.
Harris praised the United
States for standing with Israel and criticized in particular the five
EU member countries -- France,
Germany, Ireland, The
Netherlands, and the United
Kingdom -- that opted to join with the majority. Five
countries -- Ethiopia,
Kenya, India, Macedonia, and Paraguay -- abstained.
"As in the case of last summer's vote on the Hamas-Israel war at
the UN Human Rights Council, only one country out of 47 stood tall,
defended the truth, and displayed courage -- the United States," said Harris.
He pointed out that Israel is
severely disadvantaged in the world body because "the UN is nothing
more or less than the collective expression of its member
states."
"With the 21 voting members of the Arab League, the 57 nations
in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and the 120-nation
Non-Aligned Movement more or less automatically voting against
Israel, and the political
expediency too often displayed by the EU, Israel can't muster the support it deserves,
whatever the facts on the ground might be," said Harris.
"The UNHRC should be devoting attention and protection to
genuine victims of human rights worldwide, but too often cannot
because of the incessant focus on Israel," he concluded. "Tragically, the UNHRC
doesn't begin to live up to its name, far from it."
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