Wanna hear a joke? The UN issued a document on combating antisemitism! ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Sunday, January 19, 2025

Wanna hear a joke? The UN issued a document on combating antisemitism!

On Friday, the UN issued a press release:

Under-Secretary-General Miguel Ángel Moratinos, High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC), will hold a hybrid press briefing to announce the launch of the United Nations Action Plan to Enhance Monitoring and Response to Antisemitism.

The United Nations has long worked on addressing antisemitism. The Action Plan, which is focused on the United Nations system, is developed by UNAOC. Building on the numerous efforts undertaken by the UN over past decades, this Action Plan aims to ensure an even more coordinated and effective response to counter antisemitism.

In particular, the Action provides detailed recommended actions for enhancing the United Nations Monitoring and Response to Antisemitism. These action points include:

Establish a United Nations Monitoring and Evaluation Working Group to monitor and evaluate the impact of policies and measures to address antisemitism
Enhance awareness and understanding of antisemitism among United Nations personnel
Promote implementation of the Action Plan on the UN’s monitoring and countering antisemitism

Yes, the world's most prominent organization that justifies antisemitism claims to be an authority in fighting antisemitism.

The document itself doesn't say anything directly objectionable. Indirectly, it does, by refusing to accept the IHRA definition of antisemitism even though it knows that is the only one accepted by any country.

The ability to understand and identify antisemitism is crucial to global efforts to combat hatred and prejudice, and to uphold human rights and human dignity. While a shared understanding can serve not only the work of the United Nations, but of all nations striving to create effective policies and programmes to combat this form of hate, the absence of a universally accepted definition cannot affect decisive action aimed to root out antisemitism.

As of December 2024, 45 United Nations Member States have adopted or endorsed the IHRA version as a non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism, and many use it for training law enforcement agencies and educators. While there is a diversity of views and other definitions have been developed , unlike the IHRA definition, none of them have been adopted by any United Nations Member State. Nonetheless, the United Nations Secretariat does not endorse any definition on antisemitism.

It is important to note that any definition of antisemitism should be applied taking into account the guidance provided in the Human Rights Committee general comment No. 34 on freedoms of opinion and expression (2011), in the Rabat Plan of Action (2012), and in the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination general recommendation No. 35 on combating racist hate speech (2013). In this regard, the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion and belief noted in 2019 that criticism of the Government of Israel is not per se antisemitic, , unless it is accompanied by manifestations of hatred towards Jews in general or by expressions that build on traditional antisemitic stereotypes.

This is their way of saying that the IHRA definition calls normal criticism of the Government of Israel antisemitic - when it says the opposite. What the UN is really saying is that no criticism of Israel can be considered antisemitic unless it explicitly mentions Jews or says things like "Zionists control the world financial system."

Holocaust inversion, for example, is not antisemitic according to the UN.

Saying that Jewish nationalism is racist while other nationalisms are not is not antisemitic according to the UN.

The announcement is a study in hypocrisy.

After all, when UN representatives say antisemitic things, the UN doesn't say a word of protest.

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories agreed with a social media post that compared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler. She has compared the Gaza war started by Hamas with the Holocaust several times. In February 2024, Albanese stated that the victims of the October 7 Hamas attacks were killed "not because of their Judaism, but in response to Israeli oppression," a remark that was condemned by France and Germany as antisemitic.

Miloon Kothari, a member of the UN Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry on the Situation in Israel and the West Bank and Gaza made comments in July 2022 referring to the "Jewish lobby," echoing age-old antisemitic tropes.

Richard A. Falk, when he was UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, posted a cartoon in 2011 depicting a dog with a Jewish head-covering urinating on Lady Justice while devouring bloody human bones. Only when people complained did he apologize.

In all cases, the UN did nothing.

But that only scratches the surface, because the UN's double standards and obsession with Israel - so many anti-Israel resolutions both in the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council while all but ignoring human rights violations by the rest of the world - makes the UN one of the top causes and purveyors of antisemitism today.

And now we are going to believe the UN when they claim they are going to combat antisemitism?

Fire Albanese to begin with. Publicly accept the IHRA definition of antisemitism that says that double standards for Israel is not acceptable. Then maybe we can discuss whether the UN does anything concrete to combat antisemitism.