[ April 19, 2024 ]
“It is an attempt to provide an international stamp of approval to the anti-Semitic BDS movement. It must be rejected,” Haley said.
That is true. Brava. The BDS movement is nothing more than a neo-Nazi initiative to strangle Jews economically, as a prelude to even worse. The UN is worse than useless as it continues to demonize and vilify the Jewish state. The UN is what should be defunded, and expelled from the U.S.
“Experts Warn: UN Blacklist of Israeli Companies Will Spur Antisemitism,” by Sean Savage, Israel Today, August 30, 2017:
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An upcoming “blacklist” of major international companies with business ties to Israeli communities in Judea, Samaria, the Golan Heights and eastern Jerusalem represents yet another attempt by anti-Israel actors in the United Nations to single out and demonize the world’s only Jewish state, experts say.
The U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) had voted to approve the database of businesses last year, defying objections from the U.S. and Israel. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Prince Zeid bin Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein submitted a draft of the blacklist to the countries where the businesses are based. He is expected to receive a response from those nations by Sept. 1, and the UNHRC will publish the database by the end of this year.
American firms on the list include Caterpillar, TripAdvisor, Priceline and Airbnb, The Washington Post reported.
“The blacklist is the latest incarnation of the decades-long Arab boycott and yet another singling out of Israel by the U.N. Because Israel, the Jewish state, alone is singled out, the intent and impact is anti-Semitic,” Anne Herzberg, a U.N. expert and the legal advisor for the Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor watchdog group, told JNS.org.
Similarly, Israel’s Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon described the list as “an expression of modern anti-Semitism reminiscent of dark periods in history.”
While the list will have no legal consequences for Israel or the companies involved, its opponents say it could put pressure on the U.N. Security Council to take action.
Supporters of the list draw inspiration from efforts to target international businesses that were involved in apartheid-era South Africa as well as Arab-led boycotts of Israel as a means to pressure the Jewish state to change its policies regarding the Palestinians and the disputed territories.
But Michal Hatuel-Radoshitzky, a research fellow for Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies, said the list will likely do the opposite and undermine any chances for a two-state solution.
“First and foremost, this is because such a ‘blacklist’ serves to strengthen the common Israeli perception of a hostile international community which is united against the Jewish state,” Hatuel-Radoshitzky told JNS.org.
She said, “This paradigm strengthens the hardliners and works against the moderate camp that perceives the two-state solution—which ultimately necessitates compromises from Israel—as the desired alternative.”
UN’s credibility
The blacklist also “serves to undermine the credibility of the UNHRC in specific and to further taint the U.N. in general,” Hatuel-Radoshitzky said.
Since taking over as U.N. secretary-general in January, Portugal’s António Guterres has attempted to take a more evenhanded approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after years of disproportionate criticism of Israel by the world body.
“As secretary-general of the United Nations, I consider that the state of Israel needs to be treated as any other state,” Guterres said in an address to the World Jewish Congress in April.
“I have already had the opportunity to show that I’m ready to abide by that principle even when that forces me to take some decisions that create some uncomfortable situations,” he added, referencing a move he made to squash a report by former U.N. official Rima Khalaf that called Israel an “apartheid state.”
Herzberg said that while it does not appear Guterres is in favor of the of the blacklist, it might be impossible for him to stop its release.
“Due to the U.N. bureaucracy and the dominance of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, it would be difficult if not impossible for the secretary-general to halt the process,” she said.
According to Herzberg, such reports are often compiled by a “narrow sector” of political activists and NGOs, many who are linked to terror groups and the BDS movement.
“Many U.N. officials were formerly employed by these partisan organizations and harbor extreme anti-Israel views,” she said.
US response
The Trump administration recently urged the human rights commissioner, Hussein, not to publish the blacklist. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley called the list “shameful” and “counterproductive” to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
“It is an attempt to provide an international stamp of approval to the anti-Semitic BDS movement. It must be rejected,” Haley said….
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6 years ago
Hmmm… the U.N. operates just like George Soros. They are at pains to distance themselves from Israel and Zionism…
HOWEVER, the impact of their anti-Israel machinations and pronouncements is minimal… really nothing concrete in terms of consequences… but their impact on Europe is MASSIVE… the U.N. now wants to take control of funnelling Africans into Europe.
I note that neither the U.N. nor Soros have succeeded in anything like that where Israel is concerned. We must learn from Israel and copy Israel if we are to survive in Europe.
6 years ago
Defund UN or pass resolution against palestinians for supporting , funding terrorists… if UN with the 57 islamic states do not support it defund UN.
After the Latest Jihadi attacks Most Pro-Islam Left/liberal Leaders would not even talk about “Islamic terrorist” http://bit.ly/2idyQrO
Because they are deliberately covering up and only way to fight back is to speak the truth and call out these Leaders as Islamonazi jihadi apologist/enablers and not elect them if citizens value their life/country.
6 years ago
like the “progressive” Antisemites in the EU (and the US…) try to sabotage Israeli national security with political, diplomatic and economic warfare using the UN, EU parliament and a slew of Antisemitic, Islamo-Nazi, ultra left NGO’s, Israel should allocate a cool billion dollars to bankroll right wing / special interest NGO’s in Europe!!!
Israel should donate 10’s of millions of dollars to Geert Wilders in the Nederlands
Israel should indirectly donate 10’s of millions of dollars to all national separatist NGO’s in Spain / Italy / France
Israel should indirectly donate 10’s of millions of dollars to Flemish NGO’s in Belgium
Israel should indirectly donate 10’s of millions of dollars to PRO immigration NGO’s in Sweden / Germany / France (Not the UK) and after some time, indirectly donate 10’s of millions of dollars to PAGIDA in Germany, and Swedish / French anti immigration NGO’s
Israel should indirectly donate 10’s of millions of dollars to NGO’s that oppose the Spanish colonial occupying enclaves in Morocco
Israel should indirectly donate 10’s of millions of dollars to African NGO’s that seek EU compensation for centuries of brutal European colonialism in sub Saharan Africa
Israel should financially (Give every Palestinian that leaves Israel, a $25K grant + an extra $50K grant, per family) encourage young Palestinians to leave the “West bank” (Judea & Samaria) and emigrate to Canada, Chile, Argentina and Europe!!!
Israel should indirectly donate 10’s of millions of dollars to NGO’s that want to abolish whale hunting in the north sea (screw with Antisemitic, pro Arab Norway)
Israel should indirectly donate 10’s of millions of dollars to NGO’s that want to abolish nuclear power in France…
Israel should bolster relations with anti immigration countries in Eastern Europe and help them with their HLS efforts
Once the European stop attacking Israel on the behest of the Muslim Nazi’s, Israel will stop all of the above!!!’ if only this would be true…
6 years ago
Reply to
Tilt
If Israel does half of what this article said it should do it will be completely bankrupt and will not need to do all the things listed. What a genius of a solution!!
6 years ago
The UN’s single largest voting block is the OIC consisting of 56 Islamic countries plus the PA (which they call a state).
That, I think, fully explains the UN’s behavior.
6 years ago
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6 years ago
I
think the USA should boycott these companies for spreading Lies and
Hate. UN isn’t following its own Character. Instead of building peace
among nations, it wants to destroy everything the UN use to be. Now it’s
becoming a Socialist Hate Group. United States should just pull out
and give the money they gave to the UN, to Israel. It would be better
used there.
6 years ago
Reply to
Don Whitbeck
The USA should evict the UN from New York and use the building for other purposes. The UN is no longer doing what it originally meant to do, but the opposite.
6 years ago
Reply to
carpe diem 36
demolish the building or give it to the homeless to destroy. then convert property to prison for socialists.
6 years ago
The united nations has no credibility , it is a pustule on the rectum on humanity, the only thing that can be done with the united nations is ignore it first, then stop funding so as it simply closes down. Th united nations has long stopped being a force for peace, it is a muslim tool for hate, nothing else.
6 years ago
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wilypagan
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6 years ago
Start Our Own UN. Call it the United Democracies. Build right beside the UN building, and bleed the UN dry. ALL the power will go to the United Democracies, because we have all the money, the compassion, the justice, and the military to defend ourselves.
Countries like China can’t join because they are rotten. Botswana, Mongolia, South Africa, Israel, India, Canada, Britain, Poland, etc., can join, because they are democracies. Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, North Korea, can’t join, because they are rotten.
After 5 yrs, the UN will be just another club full of underfunded whiners.
6 years ago
The UN is the enemy
hate group
terrorists
need to be dealt with
6 years ago
Get US out of UN. And UN out of US.
6 years ago
UN (Unstable Neurotics) proving time and time again it is an organization that HATES Israel for NO reason at all.
6 years ago
Considering the islamic world still features slavery and all their muslum states are minimally religious apartheid states why is the UN so focused on Israel, the only free state in the entirety of the Mid-East and N. Africa?
6 years ago
Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I WILL BLESS THOSE WHO BLESS YOU, AND HIM WHO CURSES YOU I WILL CURSE; and by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves” (Genesis 12:1-3 RSV [Emphasis Added]).
6 years ago
The U.N. vomiting it`s cow patty opinion . HEY, UN , back off.
6 years ago
I buy Blue and White when ever possible. If I knew what companies were blacklisted I would buy all I could from them.
6 years ago
Since when did the UN become a part of the SPLC?
6 years ago
When is Trump going to order the UN out of the US? Never mind…the “shadow government” is now controlling Trump.
6 years ago
The UN is a terrorist organization hiding behind benevolence.
“And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.”
2 Corinthians 11:14,15
6 years ago
I don’t know about the D and S parts of BDS, but the boycotts have not generally worked. The main reason is that Israel has many friends in the US and they organized buycotts and encourage people to buy the brands on the boycott list. I only know of one company that left Judea since BDS, but they said it wasn’t because of the boycotts. They just moved their plant to Beer Sheva, so the only losers were the Palestinians who lost jobs at this company. The very people the BDSers want to help are the ones who are hurt. I don’t know why the lefty idiots aren’t getting that message. Maybe it’s because they are idiots and cannot learn. Has anyone written a BDS for Idiots book yet? Main point: the Israeli companies in the “West Bank” mostly hire Palestinian Arabs. If the boycott is hurting the company, it can change locations and go to places where they hire Jews. So who loses? The Arabs. I’ve heard from some of the businesses kicked out of Gaza that their old Arab employees keep begging them to come back. But they can’t come back. These Arab workers who worked for the Jewish companies in Gaza were put on a blacklist- another blacklist for you – and cannot get jobs. This is what Arabs do to fellow Arabs; they don’t care even for their own brothers. It’s a very sick culture, brewed in hatred.
6 years ago
Stop funding the U.N. I am ashamed of that repulsive organization.
6 years ago
The UN is an evil intity and the spokespersons for all those who seek to destroy Isreal as a nation, along with Christians and Jews. There is no righteous leader willing to pull the plug on the UN.
These are the signs of the times and it is pointless pinning one’s hope in any earthly leader.
