http://www.adl.org/international/Israel-UN-1-introduction.asp* Of ten emergency special sessions called by the GA, six have been about Israel. No emergency sessions have been held on the R
wandan genocide, ethnic cleaning in the former Yugoslavia, or the two decades of atrocities in Sudan.
* At the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, only Israel has its own agenda item (item 8) dealing with alleged human rights violations. All other countries are dealt with in a separate agenda item (item 9). More than one quarter of the resolutions condemning a state's human rights violations adopted by the Commission over the past 40 years have been directed at Israel.
* A series of anti-Israel resolutions are passed each year by the GA.
* Until recently, Israel was the only member nation consistently denied admission into a regional group. The Arab states continue to prevent Israeli membership in the Asian Regional Group, Israel's natural geopolitical grouping. As a result, Israel sought entry into the Western and Others Group (WEOG) and was granted admission in May 2000 to that regional group in New York, but not in Geneva. Israel's full participation in the U.N., therefore, is still limited and it is restricted from participating in U.N.-Geneva based activities.
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Moreover, in a Wall Street Journal article contained in this link,
http://christianactionforisrael.org/un/all.htmla critique of recent UN studies on antisemitism reveals the following gems, from the UN report:
The genuine Zionism of many Jews helps to explain the fact that many people wrongly feel that most Jews lend their unconditional support to Israeli policies. That is why we have seen attacks on synagogues, arson attacks on schools, desecration of cemeteries, for reasons that have nothing to do either with religion, or education, or the peaceful rest of the deceased, but that have a great deal to do with a political and a territorial conflict. . . .
In the past, anti-Semitism as a phenomenon was absent from the Arab-Muslim world. Here, the Arab-Israeli conflict plays an essential role, but another important element is the perception of the State of Israel as the "Trojan horse" of the West in the Middle East. Anti-Semitism would therefore be a particular manifestation of the hatred felt for the West, partly for financial reasons. . . .
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These conclusions, to my mind, are misleading.
Just by looking at the articles I posted on the "New Antisemitism" thread, one can conclude that the average person, anywhere on the planet, simply doesn't make fine distinctions between Zionists, Israelis and Jewish people. Such distinctions are fine for discussions like this one but in the "real world", an Israeli is a Jew. Even if he is an Arab. And vice-versa. A Zionist is a Jew, even if he is a Christian or even a Muslim. And so forth.
Any approach to the problem of global antisemitism that does not recognize this fact, is missing the boat.
And, while agreeing that the very EXISTENCE of Eretz Israel and the brutality of war have played into the theme of antisemitism, to blame the one for the other is most innaccurate.
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Antisemitism predated Israel by nearly 2000 years, and was one of the prime reasons for the creation of the State! Hello? Has anyone ever heard of THE HOLOCAUST?
To blame Israel for the creation of antisemitism is breathtaking in its wrongheadedness.
Moreover, I think it is antisemitism itself, as much as any other factor, which is driving the ongoing war, and which was one MAJOR factor in creating it in the first place. I don't see, how, reading the posts attached to the "new antisemitism" thread, and the articles which just lightly touch on the Mufti of Jerusalem and his Nazi connections on the "apartheid" thread, and how the false and slanderous "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is still being taught and TELEVISED, one can come to any other conclusion.
To claim that antisemitism was absent from the Middle East before the creation of Israel, or before the Zionist settlers arrived, is completely nonsensical and false.
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This article reveals other ideas as to how Jews can stop from being persecuted, which really blew me away. Read it.
Finally, excerpting the same article, and regarding the devastating genocide in the Sudan, we have this paragraph, also from the UN:
It is interesting to compare the U.N. expert's incisive analysis of the underlying hatred in Sudan. After noting in the same report that two million Sudanese have died and four million have been displaced, he muses that "massacres, allegedly ethnically motivated, are continuing to claim victims in the Darfur region. . . . The Special Rapporteur therefore proposes to give greater priority to this region with a view to conducting . . . an investigation . . . of the ethnic dimension of the conflicts ravaging it."
Great. So, after millions - MILLIONS - have been killed and displaced, we will have AN INVESTIGATION.
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