There were several probes into the incident. A
UNHRC report in September 2010 into the
incident deemed the blockade illegal and stated
that Israel's actions were "disproportionate"
and "betrayed an unacceptable level of
brutality",
UNHRC report in September 2010 into the
incident deemed the blockade illegal and stated
that Israel's actions were "disproportionate"
and "betrayed an unacceptable level of
brutality",
"" Anti-Israel bias has been a pervasive feature
of the United Nations Human Rights Council
since its inception nine years ago, according
to a report issued yesterday by the watchdog
group UN Watch.
' In the nine years of its existence, the UN
Human Rights Council has condemned Israel
more times than the rest of the world
combined, revealed UN Watch today, ahead of
a new report to be released by the Geneva-
based NGO that documents endemic selectivity
and politicization at the world body.
The outcome resolution for the latest Gaza
report, to be introduced at the UNHRC this
week by the Palestinians together with the
Arab and Islamic states, will condemn Israel
exclusively, and will mark the 62nd resolution
targeting Israel since the new and improved
Council was created in 2006 — while the total
of all other UNHRC condemnatory resolutions
for the rest of the world amounts to 55, with
most of the worst violators given a free pass, if
not a seat on the council itself.
Sadly, with members like China, Russia, Cuba,
Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Venezuela and Qatar,
the UNHRC today may possibly rank as a more
corrupt international organization than FIFA.'
The report includes a number of graphics and
charts that illustrate the bias. One detail that
exemplifies the council’s bias is the existence of
Agenda Item 7, “the Human rights situation in
Palestine and other occupied Arab territories,”
which is one of ten permanent items on the
council’s agenda. No other agenda item targets
a specific nation.
This may explain why the UNHRC has
condemned Israel 61 times—more than all
other nations combined—while it has only
condemned Syria, where over 200,000 people
have died in its civil war, 15 times. The council
has also held seven emergency sessions
focused on Israel, but only four on Syria.
Israel also had a special rapporteur assigned to
its case. From 2008 to 2014, the rapporteur
was Richard Falk a professor who subscribes to
9/11 conspiracy theories.
The UNHRC was supposed to an improvement
over its predecessor, the UN Human Rights
Commission, but as Claudia Rosett wrote for
Forbes in 2009:
' The Human Rights Council [was] born three
years ago out of the ashes of the former U.N.
Human Rights Commission–an outfit which in
2003 became a world-class symbol of U.N.
perversion by choosing Libya to chair its
proceedings. The Commission was so
hopelessly twisted–obsessed with condemning
Israel while prone to excusing the worst human
rights violators–that as part of the U.N. reform
efforts of recent years, it was finally dissolved
and replaced in 2006 by the current Council.
However, after a brief pause to update the
stationery, the Council began proving, if
anything, even worse than the old
Commission. Excusing, glossing over or simply
ignoring the violations of some of the worst
abusers, the Council, as noted by a Geneva-
based non-governmental organization, UN
Watch, has devoted more than 80% of its
country resolutions to condemning Israel, while
“eroding free speech protections in the name of
Islamic sensitivities and steadily eliminating
country investigations in places like Belarus,
Congo, Cuba, Liberia and Sudan.”""
http://www.thetower.org/2214-new-watchdog-report-traces-pattern-of-bias-at-un-human-rights-council/
