UN Condemns Israel as World’s Only Violator of Women’s Right, Ignoring Abuses in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan
Nikki Haley: “It is a total mockery of human rights to allow Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, and Yemen to name Israel as the world’s only violator of women’s rights.”
The United Nations once again established its reputation as a forum for smearing and delegitimizing the State of Israel. The UN’s Economic and Social Council passed a resolution condemning Israel as the only country in the world that violates women’s rights.
The 54-nation UN council passed the resolution by a margin of 40 to 2, with nine abstentions. The United States and Canada were the only member nations that voted against the resolution. The supporters of the move included the who’s who of the leading violators of women’s and human rights such as Iran, China, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Sudan. India, Israel’s prominent defense ally, joined the arch-rival Pakistan in condemning the Jewish State. Germany and the United Kingdom were among nine nations that abstained from voting.
The resolution condemned Israel for defending its borders against thousands of armed Hamas demonstrators who have tried to break into Israel from the Gaza border since March 2018. Israel’s armed forces have repelled several intrusion attempts orchestrated by the terrorist group Hamas since last year. These armed intrusions, repeatedly described by some mainstream media outlets as ‘peaceful demonstrations,’ have been accompanied by a barrage of rocket and mortar attacks on Israeli civilians by Gaza-based jihadi organizations, Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
The UN council expressed it’s “grave concern” over the “deaths of and injuries caused to civilians, including children, women, and peaceful demonstrators,” the four-page resolution said. The UN did not convey any concern for the lives of Israeli civilians during these deadly terrorist operations.
The resolution claimed that Israel undermines the “ability of the Palestinian Government to protect Palestinian women and girls.” The UN ignored the violent suppression carried out by the PLO-controlled Palestinian Authority and Hamas against their civilians, in the West Bank and Gaza.
The UN Watch reported the details of the anti-Israel resolution:
Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Pakistan were among members of the UN’s 54-nation economic and social council, a principal organ of the world body, who voted to single out and condemn Israel yesterday as the only country in the world that violates women’s rights.
The Jewish state was harshly and repeatedly condemned in a resolution, adopted 40 to 2 with 9 abstentions and 3 absent (see breakdown below), for allegedly being the “major obstacle” for Palestinian women “with regard to their advancement, self-reliance, and integration in the development of their society.”
Out of 20 items on the UN Economic and Social Council’s 2018-2019 agenda, only one — Item No. 16 against Israel — focuses on condemning a specific country. All the other focus areas concern global topics such as disaster relief assistance and the use of science and technology for development.
The resolution completely ignores how Palestinian women’s rights are impacted by their own governing authorities—the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, and Hamas in Gaza—nor does it mention how women are discriminated against within patriarchal Palestinian society.
Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley slammed the international body for the absurd vote. “It amazes me how the U.N. condones votes like these,” she wrote on Twitter. “It is a total mockery of human rights to allow Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, and Yemen to name Israel as the world’s only violator of women’s rights.”
It amazes me how the U.N. condones votes like these. It is a total mockery of human rights to allow Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, and Yemen to name Israel as the world’s only violator of women’s rights. #Embarrassing https://t.co/VOr20Ma9Po
— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) July 25, 2019
“The UN reached new heights of absurdity by singling out Israel alone on women’s rights, yet saying nothing on Iran holding women’s rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh behind bars, Saudi Arabia jailing and torturing women’s rights activists, and subjugating women under harsh male guardianship laws, or on Yemen denying women hospital treatment without the permission of a male relative,” said Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch.
The noted Israeli writer and former humanitarian officer in the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) Hen Mazzig also slammed the UN for the malicious move. “The UN just condemned Israel as the world’s only violator of women’s rights, backed by votes of council members Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen,” he tweeted. “That’s just heads up for the next time someone sources a UN report to make a point about Israel.”
While the UN council smeared the only democracy in the Middle East, an image appeared on social media of a Hamas recruit carrying out shooting practice. It showed his rifle resting on the food sacks provided by the UN. The photograph, taken at the Hamas’ terrorist ‘summer camp,’ is symbolic of the world body’s funding and support for the terror campaign against Israel. The UN-funded Palestinian ‘relief’ agency, or UNRWA, has repeatedly faced accusations of harboring terrorists within its ranks and allowing its facilities and resources to be used to influence Palestinian children in the twin ideologies of Islamic jihad and Jew-hatred.
Notice the bag used by the Palestinian teen for target practice at Hamas terrorist “summer camp”? It was provided by the @UN Food Program.
It’s time for the world community to end aiding terrorism against Israeli civilians.
(image h/t @elkanvanderraaf) pic.twitter.com/yGTjz7XCMh
— Indians for Israel ???? (@Indians4Israel) July 25, 2019
Israeli politician Einat Wilf speaks on anti-Israeli Bias at the UN (March 18, 2019)
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Votes like these prove the UN to be a joke. We should pull out.
Bring back Nikki.
How about this, a vote against US interest brings an immediate stop to any treaty obligations as well as any aid to those countries.
Victor Davis Hanson, summing up the “Second World Wars” lecture series from Hillsdale, discussed how much a failure the UN has been to help create peace in the post WW2 era. It has sustained if not promoted dictatorships and statist governments.
The John Birch Society has been saying it for 60 years, Get US Out, offering a citizen-sponsored campaign,
https://www.jbs.org/action-projects/get-us-out-of-the-united-nations
Why are we hosting and funding this evil, racist, dumpster fire of an organization? US out of the UN and UN out of the US. Where is the SPLC? The ADL? Simon Weisenthal Foundation? Oh, it isn’t “white” supremacy anti-Semitism and Jew-hatred, it is 3rd world anti-Semitism and Jew-hatred so it makes it ok.
“There’s been this double standard throughout. A Mexican delegate, when the U.N. was first established, said, ‘We’ve created an organization where we hold the mice accountable while the tigers roam free.’ And there’s a lot of truth to that. “ Professor Richard Falk, professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University
https://ralphnaderradiohour.com/who-controls-the-worlds-wealth/
Today’s mega-rich have no loyalty to any one country. They have the UN to foster their interests. War, perpetual war, has been their best method.
Get rid of the UN, and a lot of the world’s tensions would ease. The UN and its countless affiliates, from the EU, the African Union, to these free-trade agreements.
Relocate this useless organization to Tehran.
Don’t think we can relocate them to soon to radioactive Iran.
The world’s elite intentionally sited the UN in the USA, and particularly in NYC, because the USA is the target. If the US falls into the socialist line of being just another one of the world’s nations, the world’s elite will have captured the world.
There was no need for a new place if having a situs was the determinant. The League of Nations had its headquarters in Geneva. That could have been used by the new UN. But an Americanist-minded Senate rejected in 1919 the League. The USA never joined the League of Nations. The world’s elites were bound and determined to corral the USA in the new organization. Locating it in NYC would assure that; FDR was the principal cheerleader, knowing that a war-weary Congress would comply.
Existing as an International Embassy located on U.S. Soil, the U.N. should be given an eviction notice. We as a country have been giving them, allowing them, favored status to conduct atrocities such as this, while they go about living their lives in the private sector under the freedoms of our country. Add to the fact which POTUS Trump points out that no one has been paying their fair share and yet we continue to pick up the tab for this B.S.. Located in NYC, as they say in the borough of Bronx..THROW THE BUMS OUT !! Left wing socialists as are NYC de Blasio and NYS Cuomo have no jurisdiction standing on this international entity.
I’m just speed reading but it seems to me to be a due process complaint, which as far as I know doesn’t apply in combat.
I cannot count the number of times that I sat outside of the UN building eating my lunch and pondered if we could put it on its side and float it down the East River.
The UN, proudly promoting the democratic ideal of one dictator, one vote, since 1945.
Expect Nikki Haley to get Palined regularly in the MSM after the 2020 election.
So, the UK and Germany abstained instead of voting “No.” What garbage!
On the plus side (to the extent there is one) Canada voted “No”. As a Canadian myself I am proud of that. Though I hold Justin Trudeau in low regard, fairness requires that I admit he has continued fairly well the Harper policy of supporting Israel.
Islamic jihad and Jew-hatred are not “twin ideologies”. They are the same ideology.