The U.S. is reportedly considering removing itself from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), which serves primarily as a forum for representatives of states with little regard for human rights but eager to condemn Israel. But, writes Ben Cohen, the UN’s problem with the Jewish state goes far beyond the UNHRC:
On [November 10, 1975], the UN General Assembly passed the Soviet-inspired Resolution 3379, equating Zionism with racism—a resolution that was rescinded in 1991. Less well-known is another resolution passed on that day—3376, which created the grandly named Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, giving us the unwieldy acronym CEIRPP.
The “inalienable rights” that this committee represents include, as Resolution 3376 makes unambiguously clear, the “exercise by Palestinians of their inalienable right to return to their homes and property from which they have been displaced and uprooted.” Note the terminology used here—not “Palestinian refugees of the 1948 war,” but all Palestinians, including those born after 1948 in the Arab world, in Europe, in North America, and in Latin America. It doesn’t take tremendous insight to realize that this is a formula for the elimination of Jewish sovereignty in the land of Israel—the very same formula that drives the BDS hate campaign against Israel and gives it the undeserved gloss of human rights.
For more than 40 years, and longer when you remember that the UN set up its first Israel-bashing committee, . . . the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Human Rights Practices Affecting the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories—yes, SCIIHRPOAOT—in 1968, the U.S., Israel, and other democratic nations have devoted precious resources to the UN even as it has deepened its institutionalized anti-Zionism. Since 1979, CEIRPP has been serviced by a Division for Palestinian Rights, churning out an endless stream of anti-Israel propaganda through international conferences and publications. (And no, there isn’t a division for Tibetan rights, or for Kurdish rights.)
All of this costs around $6 million annually. In international-organizational terms, that’s unremarkable, but when you consider how the money is spent, it’s little short of obscene.
Read more on Tower: http://www.thetower.org/4670-after-decades-of-bias-its-time-to-hold-the-un-to-account/