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Source: https://x.com/MauriceHirsch4/status/2067135349667586371
UN Report Chooses Scapegoating over Fact-Finding
(X) Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch - I was scheduled to address the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday to rebut claims in a report by the Commission of Inquiry (COI) against Israel. I had been allotted 90 seconds, but after allowing multiple speakers to attack Israel, the council declared that there was "no time" for an Israeli to speak in his nation's defense. Here is what I would have said had I been allowed to speak: I am not a thief, I am not a murderer. I am just a proud Jew living in my 3,500-year-old ancestral homeland. But this UN report chooses racial profiling over fact-finding. Imagine the outcry if the claim was that all UN peacekeepers are sexual predators, or that all UN secretary generals are Nazis, that all Muslims are hijackers, that all Somalis are pirates, that all Irish Catholics are terrorists, that all Colombians are drug dealers. Stereotyping and scapegoating have no place in decent society. They are false, they are ugly, they incite hatred. So why does this Council tolerate vile stereotypes when they are made by this commission of inquiry against Jews? Over 750,000 Jews live in Judea and Samaria and eastern Jerusalem. Less than 0.01% are involved in crime of any sort. But according to the COI, all are violent settlers, and no different from the genocidal Gazan terrorists who raped, murdered and tortured Jews simply for being Jews. Vicious generalizations and stereotyping are the tools of racists and the familiar instruments of the Nazis, and now the diabolical devices of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Der Sturmer are joined by their successors, the reports of this so-called UN Commission of Inquiry. The writer, former director of the Military Prosecution in Judea and Samaria, is director of the Palestinian Authority Accountability Initiative at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs.