During the barrage of rocket attacks on Israel in May, which prompted the Israeli defensive action known as Operation Guardian of the Walls, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation went to the UN to “take serious measures to hold Israel accountable.” No accountability, however, was or is ever expected from the Palestinians in their longtime quest to obliterate Israel. The UN Human Rights Council then held a special session on Israeli “actions” in the eleven-day Gaza war. Go back a few months to January: the UN said it “mistakenly included” textbooks which promoted jihad warfare against Israel among books it distributed to students. Over the years, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the UN have become closely linked, leading to the General Assembly’s adoption of a draft resolution entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.” Whatever the interests of the OIC, the UN carries them forward. A paramount interest is the OIC’s Palestinian brothers. It has become routine that at every session of the UN General Assembly, “more than a dozen resolutions are passed to demonize Israel.”
So it should come as no surprise that “on the 74th anniversary of the United Nations decision to recognize the Jewish People’s right to statehood and the partition Plan on November 29, the UN held only a solidarity event with Palestinians while ignoring the founding of Israel and the history of massacres and expulsions of 850,000 Jews from Arab Countries and Iran.”
Israel protested. Its Ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, called the decision to hold the pro-Palestinian event in the General Assembly “outrageous,” which it is. However, the UN today is by no means the same UN of seven decades ago. For example, in 1990, the OIC opted out of the UN Declaration of Human Rights and advanced the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam based on the Sharia, yet fully supported by the UN. Human rights and the Sharia in the same sentence is a misnomer.
As antisemitism rises globally, the UN targets Israel at every turn, thus fanning the flames of antisemitism. No democratic or free nation should be wasting taxpayer money on funding the UN as it advances its collaborations with the OIC.
“UN holds solidarity event with Palestinians on anniversary of recognizing Israeli statehood,” by Aryeh Savir, World Israel News, November 30, 2021:
On the 74th anniversary of the United Nations decision to recognize the Jewish People’s right to statehood and the partition Plan on November 29, the UN held only a solidarity event with Palestinians while ignoring the founding of Israel and the history of massacres and expulsions of 850,000 Jews from Arab Countries and Iran.
The pro-Palestinian conference on “Solidarity with the Palestinian People” was held in the United Nations General Assembly on Monday. The conference, intended to strengthen support for the Palestinians “right of return,” was attended by the President of the GA, the President of the Security Council Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramírez of Mexico, the Palestinian Authority’s Ambassador to the UN, and representatives of Palestinian civil society.
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan, in cooperation with the World Jewish Congress, held a protest in response to the conference and attacked the UN’s “blatant disregard of the massacres and expulsions of Jews from Arab countries and Iran.”
As part of the campaign, trucks bearing signs arrived at the UN headquarters and showed those entering the building pictures of Jewish refugees who were expelled from Arab countries and Iran, along with a demand to stop erasing Jewish history.
On November 29 1947, the UN recognized the Jewish people’s right to a state. The Jews accepted the partition plan and the Arab countries rejected it and attacked Israel. At the same time, they persecuted, massacred, and ultimately expelled the Jewish communities in their own countries.
“Shockingly, this atrocity is completely ignored by the UN. Instead, the UN has the audacity to hold a solidarity event for the Palestinians on the anniversary of the Palestinians own decision to choose violence,” Erdan said at the protest. “And on the day that the Palestinians chose violence, the UN also dares to advance the outrageous, the false ‘demand of return,’ a demand that would lead to the total obliteration of the Jewish state.”
“By advancing and amplifying on the one side the false and dangerous narrative of the Palestinians and by silencing, the true stories, the tragic stories of the Jewish refugees who were expelled from the Arab countries and from Iran, the UN is erasing Jewish history and distorting the truth and we will never allow this to happen,” he stated.
“We are here today to tell the UN and the international community that our story will never be silenced and our history never erased,” the Israeli envoy declared…..
