{"id":30642,"date":"2015-11-15T18:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=30642"},"modified":"2015-11-12T16:40:40","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T14:40:40","slug":"30642","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=30642","title":{"rendered":"UN employees suspended after UN Watch report incitement to anti-Semitic violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unwatch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/UN-watch.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40%\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unwatch.org\/un-very-regrettably-admits-employees-suspended-after-un-watch-report-exposing-incitement-to-anti-semitic-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\">UN \u201cvery regrettably\u201dUN admits employees suspended after UN Watch report exposing incitement to anti-Semitic violence<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px;\" \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8145 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/chris-gunness-2-350x185.jpg\" alt=\"chris-gunness-2\" width=\"70%\" data-id=\"8145\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>GENEVA, October 22, 2015 -The spokesman for United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon quietly announced on the UN website that UNRWA employees have \u201cin a number of cases\u201d beeen subjected to disciplinary action, including suspension and loss of pay, following an investigation that verified evidence published by UN Watch \u2014 in one report last week, and another in September \u2014 of incitement to anti-Semitic violence committed by at least 22 UNRWA employees. UNRWA added that it \u201ccondemns and will not tolerate anti-Semitism or racism in any form.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Curiously, UNRWA\u2019s admission was made public only as a bracketed addition buried deep in a UN transcript, and not posted as a stand-alone statement by the UN, or indeed anywhere at all on the UNRWA website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">UN Watch welcomed the announcement, yet noted that \u201cthe UN statement hides more than it reveals,\u201d said Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based non-governmental monitoring group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cWe need to know, first, which of the UNRWA teachers identified in our reports were suspended, what were the findings, and whether the UN investigations found any additional incitement to anti-Semitic violence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cSecond,\u201d said Neuer, \u201cIn light of the above, UN Watch is demanding a full apology from UNRWA spokseman Chris Gunness for his McCarthyite tirade against what he called UN Watch\u2019s \u2018baseless allegations about antisemitism\u2019.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Gunness famously launched into a frenzied attack on UN Watch, issuing an \u201cappeal to journalists\u201d to ignore what he insisted was a \u201cnon-story\u201d:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em> \u2022\u201cAppeal to journalists: please don\u2019t turn UN Watch baseless allegations about anti-semitism into a \u2018he said she said\u2019 story. It is a non-story.\u201d<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em> \u2022\u201cUN Watch makes a fool of itself \u2026 Credibility dead in water. Will anyone believe them again\u201d?<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em> \u2022\u201cInterested to find out more about UN Watch\u2019s political and financial affiliations since it establishment. Can anyone advise?\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px;\" \/>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> twoje uwagi, linki, wlasne artykuly, lub wiadomosci przeslij do: <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #808080; text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 710px;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN \u201cvery regrettably\u201dUN admits employees suspended after UN Watch report exposing incitement to anti-Semitic violence GENEVA, October 22, 2015 -The spokesman for United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon quietly announced on the UN website that UNRWA employees have \u201cin a number of cases\u201d beeen subjected to disciplinary action, including suspension and loss of pay, following an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30642"}],"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=30642"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30653,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30642\/revisions\/30653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}