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Source: https://www.jns.org/opinion/un-revises-its-rules-for-an-anti-israel-inquiry/
The Bias of the UN's New Anti-Israel "Commission of Inquiry"
(JNS) Anne Bayefsky - The three members appointed to the new UN Human Rights Council "Commission of Inquiry" targeting Israel make a mockery of the most elementary preconditions of fairness and legitimacy. Navi Pillay, the chairperson, resurrected the UN's anti-Semitic hate-fest held in Durban in 2001 and preaches "help end decades of Israeli oppression of the Palestinian people...recognized as apartheid" and that "the Israeli Government treats international law with perpetual disdain." Miloon Kothari of India has already reported to the UN on "the practice of ethnic cleansing and expulsion of land-based people and communities, as has historically been the case in Palestine." Chris Sidoti of Australia is "a close friend and ally" of the Palestinian Human Rights Commission created by Yasser Arafat. He also "provides strategic guidance and advice" to the Australian Centre for International Justice (ACIJ), which claims that "Israel is also subjugating...Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line...under an institutionalized regime of racial domination and oppression, which amount to the crime against humanity of apartheid." These are not "inquirers," and this is not a "commission of inquiry." They are hired guns on a global hit job. The writer is director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, and president of Human Rights Voices.