{"id":119838,"date":"2025-03-15T17:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=119838"},"modified":"2025-03-15T14:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T12:55:14","slug":"15-00-102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=119838","title":{"rendered":"Elise Stefanik Blasts UN for \u2018Antisemitic\u2019 Report Accusing Israel of Sexual Violence in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Elise Stefanik Blasts UN for \u2018Antisemitic\u2019 Report Accusing Israel of Sexual Violence in Gaza<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Corey Walker<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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United Nations Ambassador-designate Elise Stefanik spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Feb. 22, 2025. Photo: Zach D Roberts\/NurPhoto via Reuters Connect<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump\u2019s nominee to serve as the next American ambassador to the United Nations has repudiated a new UN-backed report accusing the Israel Defense Force (IDF) of perpetrating sexual violence against Palestinians in Gaza, lambasting its claims as \u201cantisemitic\u201d and baseless.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe corrupt UN Human Rights Council\u2019s new baseless report is antisemitic and anti-Israel slander,\u201d\u00a0US Rep. Elise Stefanik<\/a>\u00a0(R-NY) posted on social media on Thursday, when the report was published. \u201cThe so-called \u2018Human Rights Council\u2019 [UNHRC] has failed to condemn the barbaric atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists against Israel including the brutal slaughter, torture, kidnapping of thousands of innocent civilians, and Hamas\u2019s horrific use of rape and sexual violence against Israeli women and girls, yet disgracefully attacks Israel with unfounded smears.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Stefanik continued, \u201cThis report exposes the disgraceful and obsessive antisemitism of UNHRC and reaffirms why President Trump took the strong, correct decisive executive action to withdraw from it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Thursday\u00a0published a report<\/a>, commissioned by the Human Rights Council, that accused Israel of\u00a0committing\u00a0\u201cgenocidal acts\u201d and employing sexual violence in Gaza. The report alleged that Israeli military forces have used sexual abuse and forcible stripping as weapons of war against Palestinian civilians.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIsraeli authorities have destroyed in part the reproductive capacity of the Palestinians in Gaza as a group, including by imposing measures intended to prevent births, one of the categories of genocidal acts in the Rome Statute and the Genocide Convention,\u201d the report said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Upon the report\u2019s release, Israel\u2019s permanent mission to the UN released a statement rejecting the allegations, arguing that they lacked substantiation and were based on uncorroborated sources.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn a shameless attempt to incriminate the IDF and manufacture the illusion of \u2018systematic\u2019 use of [sexual and gender-based violence], the [Commission of Inquiry] deliberately adopts a lower level of corroboration in its report, which allowed it to include information from second-hand single uncorroborated sources,\u201d the mission said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also repudiated the UNHRC, arguing that the \u201cantisemitic\u201d council has launched unsubstantiated allegations against the Jewish state with the goal of tarnishing its reputation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of focusing on the crimes against humanity and war crimes committed by the Hamas terrorist organization in the worst massacre committed against the Jewish people since the Holocaust, the UN is\u00a0once again choosing to attack Israel<\/a>\u00a0with false accusations, including unfounded accusations of sexual violence,\u201d Netanyahu wrote.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In contrast, Hamas, the terrorist group that runs Gaza, said that the report confirmed Israel\u2019s \u201cgenocidal\u201d actions within the enclave.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe UN\u2019s investigation report on Israel\u2019s genocidal acts against the Palestinian people confirms what has happened on the ground: genocide and violations of all humanitarian and legal standards,\u201d Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem told AFP.<\/span><\/p>\n

Several investigations have revealed that\u00a0Hamas-led Palestinians perpetrated widespread sexual violence<\/a>\u00a0against Israeli women and girls not only during their Oct. 7, 2023, invasion of southern Israel but also later against Israeli hostages kidnapped during the onslaught.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anne Herzberg, legal adviser and UN representative for NGO Monitor, told\u00a0The Algemeiner<\/i>\u00a0that the International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice will likely use the report to bolster their\u00a0genocide cases against Israe<\/a>l. Other anti-Israel initiatives such as the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement (BDS) will also likely reference the report in future activities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Stefanik was\u00a0tapped by Trump to serve<\/a>\u00a0as the ambassador to the United Nations for the current administration. However, Stefanik has not yet been confirmed by the US Senate to serve in the post. Senate Republicans are reportedly slowing her confirmation process due to concerns over the narrow Republican majority in the House of Representatives, where her vote is seen as necessary to pass key legislation.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Elise Stefanik Blasts UN for \u2018Antisemitic\u2019 Report Accusing Israel of Sexual Violence in Gaza Corey Walker United Nations Ambassador-designate Elise Stefanik spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Feb. 22, 2025. Photo: Zach D Roberts\/NurPhoto via Reuters Connect US President Donald Trump\u2019s nominee to serve as the next American ambassador to the United […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119838"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119851,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119838\/revisions\/119851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}