Posts Tagged: Human rights
UN Human Rights Council Passes Four Anti-Israel Resolutions With EU Support
The United National Human Rights Council passed a total of four anti-Israel resolutions condemning Israel's settlement activity in the West Bank and other policies, as...
Are ‘Human Rights’ Organizations for Palestinian Rights, or Lawfare Against Israel?
Recently, an Arab Christian gynecologist, Dr. Salamah Qumsiyeh, was brutally attacked in Bethlehem by a man who attempted to slash his wrists (there is a...
Amid George Floyd Killing, Iran Suddenly Cares About Human Rights
Protests following the police killing of George Floyd have spread from the United States to other Western democracies -- and Iran is loving it. In 2011,...
Sports as Another Venue to Whitewash Human Rights Abuses
The responses of sports associations to denunciations of repression in China’s troubled northwestern province of Xinjiang and support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong by soccer...
US Islamists Effusively Praise Erdogan in New York Meeting
Top US Islamists effusively praised Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a meeting on Sunday in New York. "You give us a sense of pride, an...
More Human Rights Hypocrisy
What’s striking about the international community’s reaction to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent pledge to apply sovereignty to Jewish communities in the West Bank, and...
Getting Human Rights Right at the State Department
JNS.org - At the US State Department, human rights have generally been a not-so-high priority. The big kahunas tend to focus on war and peace,...
When Human Rights Become Acceptable Collateral Damage
JNS.org - Three seemingly unrelated incidents occurred last week, yet all share a common denominator: They exemplify the way anti-Israel politics has corrupted the concept...
New York Times Promotes Palestinian Cookbook With False Refugee Claim
The New York Times has already devoted not one but two food-section articles to boycott-Israel-promoter Yasmin Khan’s book of “recipes and stories from the Palestinian...
After Surviving Evin Prison, Woman Works to Free Others
At an average pace, most people can cover about three miles if they walk for a full hour. For 105 days in the summer of 2007, Haleh...
Innocent Iranian-British Woman Rots in Infamous Prison
On a warm day last April, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe dressed her toddler, Gabrielle, kissed her parents goodbye and set off to catch a flight back home to...
Children’s Cultural Identities
We all know about how much damage parents can do to children. But sometimes society, even when it means well, can do much worse. Yair...
Canadian University to File Human Rights Complaint Against Tenured Professor Suspended for Blaming Jews, Israel for 9/11 Attacks
Canada’s University of Lethbridge is planning to file a human rights complaint against a tenured professor who used his classroom as a platform from which to...
House Foreign Affairs Chairman Calls for New Sanctions Against Iran Over Human Rights Abuses
The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) sent a letter to President Barack Obama on Wednesday calling on the president directly to slap...
