The UN Descent to its Deepest Depths of Hostility against Israel

By Amb. Alan Baker, JCPA

The UN Human Rights Council, Geneva – (UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferre)

• In establishing an “ongoing independent international commission of inquiry” targeting Israel, the UN Human Rights Council and the UN are permitting themselves to be abused and manipulated by states, many of which are among the most ardent and prevailing human rights violators in the international community that have no genuine concern for promoting and protecting human rights.
• The oft-quoted human rights buzzwords and related expressions used in the resolution establishing the commission are nothing more than a transparent and unsubtle cover intended to deceive states and to attract maximal support for the commission’s ultimate purpose to vilify and delegitimize the State of Israel.
• The support by states for establishing the commission, as well as for the wide-open budgetary carte-blanche to which they have subscribed, undermine and are ultra-vires (beyond the powers of) the founding purposes and principles of the United Nations as set out in the UN Charter. They challenge the principle of sovereign equality which lies at the root of the UN.
• The commission of inquiry is a cynical vehicle for irresponsible states to manipulate the UN and to abuse the bona fides of member states. The commission will also manipulate the UN’s administrative and financial mechanism in order to sanction and finance a wildly partisan agenda intent on seeking to harm one state member of the UN – the State of Israel.
• Those member states that provide the bulk (70 percent) of the UN’s budget are called upon to act immediately and before the inquiry commission commences its work, in order to prevent the misuse of their funding.

Click here to read the report.

Amb. Alan Baker is Director of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs at the Jerusalem Center and the head of the Global Law Forum. He participated in the negotiation and drafting of the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, as well as agreements and peace treaties with Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon. He served as legal adviser and deputy director-general of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as Israel’s ambassador to Canada.