The United Nations Human Rights Council held a discussion Tuesday on the publication of a report by a Commission of Inquiry against Israel, during which hundreds of thousands of Israeli civilians who live in Judea and Samaria and even Israel’s capital of Jerusalem were demonized as “Nazis” by the Palestinian Authority ambassador, Ibrahim Khraishi.
IDF Lt.-Col (res.) Maurice Hirsch was scheduled to address the council during the discussion to rebut the claims made in the report and defend the “settlers” whom the report attacked. However, after allowing multiple speakers to attack Israel, the council declared that there was “no time” to allow the Israeli to speak in his nation’s defense, even though he had only been allotted 90 seconds before being prevented from speaking.
AFSI Insight
This incident as yet another example of the institutional bias that permeates the United Nations and its affiliated bodies. The fact that the UN Human Rights Council allowed repeated attacks on Israel and Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Jerusalem, yet denied Lt. Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch just 90 seconds to respond, underscores what is a predetermined agenda rather than a genuine search for truth.
The demonization of over 750,000 Israeli citizens living in their ancestral homeland is not human rights advocacy but political incitement. Jews living in Judea and Samaria are exercising their historic and legal rights and attempts to portray them collectively as criminals or aggressors are both defamatory and dangerous.