Posts Tagged: UNHRC
Head of Human Rights Watch Knocked for Using ‘Antisemitic Dog Whistle’
The executive director of Human Rights Watch accused the White House this week of following an "Israel First strategy" by withdrawing from the United Nations...
Israel to Issue Its Own Report on Gaza Riots, Won’t Collaborate With United Nations Human Rights Council
Israel will not collaborate with the United Nations Human Rights Council on an investigation into the recent riots on the Gaza border. Instead, it will...
UN Is No Longer Home Court of the Palestinians, Israeli Envoy Says
Israel’s situation at the United Nations is slowly improving, the Jewish state’s envoy to the global intergovernmental body said in an interview published by the...
Vying for a Seat on the UN Human Rights Council, Iraq Touts Jewish Life in the Country, While Hiding the Truth of Persecution, Exile
JNS.org -- In a bid to land a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), the Iraqi government is touting thousands of years of Jewish...
Report: Palestinians Saddened by India Abstention From UNHRC Resolution Condemning Israel
India's decision to abstain from the U.N. Human Rights Council vote last week over a resolution condemning alleged Israeli war crimes saddened the Palestinian Authority, the Palestinian ambassador in...
Experts Say India’s Abstain Vote at UNHRC Consistent With Lean Toward Israel
India's abstention from a U.N. Human Rights Council vote to adopt a condemnation of alleged Israeli war crimes was another mark in the South Asian country's warming relations with...
US House Committee on Foreign Affairs Chairman Slams UNHRC for Anti-Israel Resolution
Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs Ed Royce (R-CA) lambasted the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday for adopting a resolution condemning Israel over alleged war crimes during last summer's...
Major Jewish Groups Lambaste ‘Deeply Unfair’ UN Report on 2014 Gaza War
A wide array of Jewish groups condemned on Monday a U.N. report that accused Israel and Hamas of committing possible war crimes from either side of...
Hamas’ Cruelty and Violence Are Without Equal
It is a cause of wonder, though not surprising, that the international community has not indicted the terrorist group Hamas on charges of war crimes,...
Former Head of UN Gaza Human Rights Probe Reportedly Lied About PLO-Linked Conflict of Interest
William Schabas, the Canadian academic who this week resigned as the head of a a UN inquiry into the summer 2014 war between Israel and...
Arab-Israeli Priest to UN: ‘Israel Only Safe Haven For Christians in Middle East’ (VIDEO)
Israeli-Arab Greek Orthodox Priest, Father Gabriel Nadaf, addressing the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on Tuesday, called on the world to stand...
‘Human Wrongs Council’ – Israel Ambassador to UN on Schabas Appointment to Gaza Commission
Ambassador Ron Prosor, Israel's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, on Tuesday said "the United Nations Human Rights Council set a new record for anti-Israel...
A Radical New Approach to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Change the Education System
Those at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) who voted to condemn Israel in the harshest terms, are, as usual, the nations with the...
European Union Shows Lack of Will to Defend Israel at UNHRC
Yet again, the European Union has demonstrated a lack of will in defending a sister democracy under attack from an organization that it has included...
