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Source: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-704781
Pro-Israel NGOs Submit 2 Million Complaints to UN Inquiry Against Israel
(Jerusalem Post) Lahav Harkov - Pro-Israel organizations have submitted nearly two million examples of repression of Jews and violations of their human rights to the UN Human Rights Council's Commission of Inquiry (COI) on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during the past three months. The COI was established last year as an open-ended inquiry into the conflict. The inquiry called for submissions about the "root causes" of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including evidence of human rights violations, such as racial and religious discrimination and repression with "no temporal restrictions," meaning they can be from before Israel was established. The organizations gathered names of hundreds of thousands of Holocaust victims and Jews who fled persecution and ethnic cleansing in the Middle East and North Africa. They also wrote about the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini's collaboration with the Nazis and his role in inciting mass violence against the Jewish people, such as in the 1941 Farhud pogrom in Iraq. Palestinian Media Watch and the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) submitted photos, videos and documents detailing decades of Palestinian incitement to violence against Jews, as well as Palestinian efforts to erase Jewish history and terminate the Jewish state, and the Palestinian Authority's "martyr payments" to families of terrorists. Israel objects to the COI and will not cooperate with it.