CAMERA Media Analysis
30 September '10
The United Nations’ Human Rights Council (HRC) voted on June 2, 2010 to investigate, in the words of the its resolution, "violations of international law ... resulting from the Israeli attacks on the flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian assistance." The Council subsequently established a three member fact-finding mission, and on Sept. 22 published an advance unedited version of the group’s conclusion.
The vote and investigation were the latest examples of what UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon once described as the Council’s "singling out" of Israel, and what his predecessor Kofi Annan had termed its "disproportionate focus" on the Jewish state.
The obsession with Israel on the part of the Human Rights Council is certainly significant and worthy of comment on its own. It is, after all, nothing less than bigotry and injustice to consistently judge one country by a particular set of standards while failing to apply those standards to the rest of the world. (The separate standard for the rest of the world is most notable when it involves regimes that voted to investigate Israel. For example, even as HRC member Kyrgystan was sitting in judgment of Israel's naval operation, hundreds of thousands of minority Uzbeks were forced from their homes in that country by brutal, gruesome violence at the hands of their Kyrgyz neighbors. )
That said, it is not necessary to focus HRC’s discriminatory treatment of Israel to raise serious concerns about its report. The text itself, which goes so far as to accuse Israel of summary execution and torture of innocent passengers, is deeply flawed, leading the U.S. ambassador to the Council to criticize its "unbalanced language, tone and conclusions."
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