A U.N. committee on racism voiced concern on Friday about a "sharp increase in racist hate speech and dehumanisation" directed at Palestinians by Israelis, including senior officials, since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks.
The U.N. committee is made up of 18 independent experts and tasked with monitoring compliance with a 1965 treaty against racism which Israel and Palestinian authorities have both ratified.
It took me a while to actually track down the actual document. This article is about a published statement from CERD, who are a committee from the UNHRC.
The statement is pretty one sided, starting from calling it the “Occupied Gaza Strip” and claiming that Israel has them under its “effective control”. The only saving grace is one paragraph calling on Hamas and the PA to follow up on their recommendations from 2019:
19.c About the existence of hate speech, in particular hate speech directed against Israelis, which at times fuels anti-Semitism towards this group, in certain media outlets, in particular those controlled by Hamas, as well as on social media, in public officials’ statements and in school curricula and textbooks, which also fuels hatred and may incite violence (art. 4).
One sided in the sense that it is only criticizing Israel’s conduct, and not dealing with Hamas at all, except for two paragraphs. One describing the atrocities perpetrated on October 7th, and the other referencing their 2019 findings which is buried in a footnote.
If the committee released a similar statement dealing with Hamas or the PA, it would be understandable. However, they have not done this, nor shown any indication they intend to do so.
Israel propped up Hamas as justification for genocide as well as to split the secular factions in Palestine against eachother. Plus the settler behaviour to Palestinians over decades: Im not surprised Hamas and PA are bigoted against Israelis.
I’m not gonna listen to people whining that the UN is “one sided” when making vaguely critical statements while trying to reign in a nuclear power that has made it their explicit goal to wipe out millions of people in the name of an ethno-state.
It took me a while to actually track down the actual document. This article is about a published statement from CERD, who are a committee from the UNHRC.
The statement is pretty one sided, starting from calling it the “Occupied Gaza Strip” and claiming that Israel has them under its “effective control”. The only saving grace is one paragraph calling on Hamas and the PA to follow up on their recommendations from 2019:
Could you explain more about how the “statement is one sided”?
One sided in the sense that it is only criticizing Israel’s conduct, and not dealing with Hamas at all, except for two paragraphs. One describing the atrocities perpetrated on October 7th, and the other referencing their 2019 findings which is buried in a footnote.
If the committee released a similar statement dealing with Hamas or the PA, it would be understandable. However, they have not done this, nor shown any indication they intend to do so.
Israel propped up Hamas as justification for genocide as well as to split the secular factions in Palestine against eachother. Plus the settler behaviour to Palestinians over decades: Im not surprised Hamas and PA are bigoted against Israelis.
I’m not gonna listen to people whining that the UN is “one sided” when making vaguely critical statements while trying to reign in a nuclear power that has made it their explicit goal to wipe out millions of people in the name of an ethno-state.
Just got to love how you get downvoted on Lemmy for not being anti Israel. How dare you call them out on their biased (or worse) stuff.