By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Bahrain voted in favor of the resolution along with other countries with poor human-rights records, including China, Russia, Cuba, Libya, Uzbekistan, Somalia, Pakistan and Venezuela.
By Eliana Rudee
“The purpose is to fill that gap by providing the first-ever examination of claims made under Item 7, and to provide a detailed analysis, citing to sources of fact and international law,” said researcher and writer Dina Rovner.elianneliana
By Ariel Kahana
The Norwegian government says it has “neither the right nor the duty” to prohibit Egencia, a subsidiary of blacklisted company Expedia, from providing services inside Norway.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The UN blacklist only includes Jewish, and not Arab-owned, Israeli companies- clear discrimination and a violation of the UN charter.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated after the report’s publication that “whoever boycotts us will be boycotted. "
By JNi.Media
In 2013, Prof. Shany evaluated the Israeli judicial system on YouTube – we believe his views foretell a worse scrutiny of Israel by the UNHRC in the next 18 months.
By JoeSettler
Schabas can't understand how Hamas might commit war crimes, but not Israel.
What lawyer do you know charges only $1300 for a 7 page legal brief in an esoteric field of expertise of international law?
By Shalom Bear
Israel is not cooperating with William Schabas's attempt to write the Goldstone 2 report.
Former NY Judge Mary McGowan Davis will joint a UN panel probing Israel's counter terror offensives.
By Rachel Levy
UNHRC High Commissioner Navi Pillay accuses the IDF of possible war crimes in Gaza again, cutting slack to Hamas.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The PLO envoy to the UNHRC admits the Palestinian Authority unity government commits war crimes.
UNRWA's numbers mean half the refugees in the world are Palestinian Arabs.
Wibisono is replacing the anti-Israeli Richard Falk, or perhaps this is just a Falk 2.0 upgrade.
By Raheel Raza
Upon my return from Israel, I praised the country and the people, but many of my Muslim friends were not interested in knowing these details.
By JTA
The Obama administration refused on Monday to participate in a U.N. Human Rights Council meeting on Israeli settlements and slammed the body for its "disproportionate" focus on Israel. The council, based in Geneva, debated on Monday a January special report on the settlements that called for Israel to immediately withdraw from the West Bank and […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Rather than applying consistent and professional standards to fact-finding, the claims of are often the products of instant speculation.
In recent weeks the United Nations has gone on the warpath against Israel, defaming the Jewish state and providing aid and comfort to its enemies.
UNHRC on Friday named three women to the panel, one accused Israel of "total discrimination," another's sister served on the Goldstone commission.
Let us employ a bit of fantasy and assume that Muslim states were intent on assailing the Netherlands. They would claim in the United Nations Human Rights Council that the hundreds of cases every year of euthanasia in the Netherlands, in which the patient is not asked his or her permission, constitutes a severe breach of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. These states could easily muster a majority to have the UNHRC appoint a commission of inquiry into this matter.