{"id":99270,"date":"2022-10-28T17:00:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=99270"},"modified":"2022-10-28T10:48:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T08:48:51","slug":"31-00-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=99270","title":{"rendered":"UN Commission Announces Investigation of Israeli \u2018Apartheid\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>UN Commission Announces Investigation of Israeli \u2018Apartheid\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Dion J. Pierre<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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StandWithUs holds a press conference outside the headquarters of the United Nations in New York, featuring Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan, October 27, 2022. Photo: Dion J. Pierre<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A UN commission announced Thursday that it will investigate the allegation that Israel is an \u201capartheid state,\u201d eliciting strong rebuke from pro-Israel organizations.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re focusing on the root cause, which is the occupation, and part of it lies in apartheid,\u201d said Navi Pillay, a member of the United Nations\u2019 Commission of Inquiry on Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza (COI). \u201cWe will be coming to that. That\u2019s the beauty of this open-ended mandate. It gives us the scope.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Commissioner Miloon Kothari, who in July\u00a0made comments<\/a>\u00a0about the undue influence of a so-called \u201cJewish lobby\u201d on the media, said the COI would \u201chave to look at issues of settler colonialism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cApartheid itself is a very useful paradigm, so we have a slightly different approach, but we will definitely get to it,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The COI\u2019s announcement follows the release of its second report on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Commission was established last year following the 11-day war between Israel and Gaza\u2019s ruling Hamas group in May. COI is the first UN commission to ever be granted an indefinite period of investigation, which has drawn criticism from the\u00a0US State Department<\/a>, members of\u00a0US Congress<\/a>, and Jewish leaders across the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

StandWithUs, a nonprofit that educates the public about Israel and raises awareness of antisemitism, denounced the commission for its anti-Israel bias, at a press conference outside the United Nations headquarters in New York on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDozens of organizations stood together against the hateful, predetermined, manipulative report by the United Nations Human Rights Council\u2019s \u2018Commission of Inquiry\u2019 against Israel,\u201d StandWithUs CEO Roz Rothstein told\u00a0The Algemeiner<\/em>. \u201cPeople around the world who appreciate truth and stand against anti-Jewish bigotry should be proud.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

South African lawyer Olga Meshoe-Washington of the Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel (IBSI) also disputed the commission\u2019s allegations that Israel is an apartheid state.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShame on the commission for continuing to appropriate the history of my people and trivializing my family\u2019s pain, under the banner of human rights,\u201d she said. \u201cIt erases the very real, very lived experience of the brutality of apartheid; a reality that includes millions of Black South Africans fleeing their country and living in exile under fear of persecution purely because of the color of their skin. This is not Israel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan also spoke, arguing that \u201cthis is a council that has condemned Israel, a liberal democracy, more than Iran, Syria, and North Korea.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cToday, it\u2019s no longer politically correct to blame Jews for all the world\u2019s problems, so antisemites adapt,\u201d he said. \u201cRather than burning Jews at the stake, antisemites burn the Jewish state at the stake.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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