Eradicating Jew-hatred at United Nations is long overdue

Ongoing attempts at the United Nations (UN) to denigrate, delegitimise and isolate Israel continue to give the UN the dishonour of being designated the epicentre of the worlds current Jew-hatred.

Shulamit Magnus Professor Emerita of Jewish Studies and History at Oberlin College defined “Jew-hatred” in 2020:

“People who hate Jews are Jew-haters. Speech or other acts that target Jews are anti-Jewish. The phenomenon is Jew-hatred.”

Jew-hatred at the UN has manifested itself since 1967 in many Security Council resolutions--and hundreds of resolutions adopted with large majorities in the General Assembly--alleging that Jews have no legal right to live in any part of former Mandatory Palestine located west of the Jordan River--although the right to do so was expressly conferred on the Jewish people by articles 6 and 25 of the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine and subsequently preserved by article 80 of the UN Charter.

This unrelenting and discriminatory attack prompted one concerned person to ask Professor Richard Falk--the former United Nations Special Rapporteur on "the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967"--the following questions in 2014:

“Nowhere on the face of the earth will you find a country that has been unremittingly attacked in the language used to attack Israel, or at all--not truly genocidal nations like Sudan, Rwanda, Nigeria, Serbia, Cambodia, Guatemala, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan and Turkey; not the world's worst violators of human rights like Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Somalia, Russia, China, North Korea and Cuba; not seizers and occupiers of land like Russia, Armenia, Turkey (Northern Cyprus), Morocco and Azerbaizhan. Where are the BDS movements, Prof. Falk? Where are the blogs? Where are the armies of blog crawlers? Where are the videos? Where are the links? What do you think it is that draws all these "critics" to Israel and nowhere else?”

Falk claimed Israel was “a special case” principally because:

“its legitimacy was established by UN and League initiatives without any effort to take into account the views of the population physically present in the country”

Falk's claim was outrageous:

• The 4th Palestine Arab Congress sent a delegation led by Moussa Kazim El Husseini to London in 1921 to negotiate on behalf of “the Arab People of Palestine”. Correspondence between the Delegation and the British Government can be read here
• Arab riots in 1920, 1929 and between 1936-1939 expressed Arab opposition on the streets.
• The 1922 decision on Transjordan, the 1937 Peel Commission, the 1939 White Paper restricting Jewish emigration to Palestine, and the 1947 United Nations Special Committee on Palestine all recommended changes to the Mandate's stated policy to the detriment of the Jewish people.

Current UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s call to “end Israel’s colonisation of Palestinian territory” indicates her complete ignorance of articles 6 and 25 of the Mandate for Palestine and article 80 of the UN Charter.

Meantime UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Tor Wennesland--UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and the Secretary-General’s Personal Representative to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, as well as the Envoy of the Secretary-General to the Quartet--push for a two-state solution that calls for Gaza and Judea and Samaria (West Bank) to become Judenrein in flagrant violation of article 80 of the UN Charter.

Guterres, Wennesland and the UN have deliberately chosen to ignore an alternative solution--The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution--which recognizes the Jewish people’s right to reconstitute the Jewish National Home in Gaza and Judea and Samaria (West Bank).

Recognizing these vested Jewish rights is the key to eradicating Jew-hatred at the UN.

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Author’s note: The cartoon-- commissioned exclusively by the author-- is by Yaakov Kirschen aka “Dry Bones”- one of Israel’s foremost political and social commentators-- whose cartoons have graced the columns of Israeli and international media publications for decades