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Michael F's avatar

Somewhere I read that the real and only purpose of the UN is to have one place where all your enemies can meet. It is important that this is a place where this happens for the world. All of the rest, the humanitarian services can be done (and better) elsewhere and the bloated and corrupt bureaucracy is a manifestation and image of the rest of the state of the world.

The Holy Land News's avatar

Nothing has changed since 1975 in the UN. In fact, it even got worse:

Chaim Herzog Speech to the UN on ‘Zionism is Racism’

Below is Israeli Ambassador Chaim Herzog’s historic November 10, 1975 speech delivered right after the U.N. declared that “Zionism is racism.” The resolution was repealed in 1991, but its spirit tragically lives on in the form of the U.N.’s enduring obsession with condemning Israel.

https://youtu.be/xn8JAXUf97E

James Johnson's avatar

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edward green's avatar

Liberal Jews are naive. Take care of ourselves, stop trying to save the world. The world does not want to be saved. The purpose of the UN is to destroy America and western civilization. The USA should stop donating money to the UN. Throw the UN out of NY.

Why hasn't George Soros been investigated by the FBI?

Steve S's avatar

Those who falsely claim to protect the marginalized and those who are oppressed themselves do their utmost to marginalize and silence the most oppressed minority throughout history and to this present day, that being the Jew. All their distortions and lies about Zionism and Israel are meant to obscure the marginalizatio of the Jew. The fact that accomodating Jews, abused and cowed by the persistent hatred, decide to go along and provide cover is irrelevant to the hatred and not surprising.

What is more surprising are the Jew haters who don't use Zionism and Israel to obscure their devil spawned animosity towards Jews but boldly declare their desire to see Jews genocided, and so go after the low hanging fruit, the compliant Jew, with gusto and don't care what this or that compliant Jew might say, only that they are Jews.

Kelleigh Nelson's avatar

Yes they did, and despite rescinding their comments 17 years later, the damage was done. Anti-Zionism is just another word for antisemitism. I wish we'd get rid of that horrible United Nations building on American soil the Rockefellers donated to build that filth.

Chat Rond's avatar

Putin tried to adopt the libels invented by the KGB in 1968 against Israel to his case against Ukraine. Beside claiming that Ukraine was committing a geno ide and is "full of Nazis", he claimed that Ukraine is not a real country.

Everybody had the wherewithal to see through his lies. But when Hamas made the same lies about Israel, a two decade campaign ensured that feeble-minded "progressive" swallow these lies hook, line and sinker

Sherrie Mathieson's avatar

The "progressives" are RE-gressives.

Danny Rosenstein's avatar

In terms of ideology, Durban was the Wannsee Conference for the international community.

blackdog1955's avatar

You would think the South Africans would turn their anger towards the Dutch/Netherlands rather than the Jews/Israel. No word can describe this other than psychosis.

Sherrie Mathieson's avatar

The hypocrisy abounds. So many in Europe have been latent bigots and Islamists gave them new life.

I think the word BIGOTRY is more appropriate.

Jews are of all 3 races. Caucasian, Negroid, Mongoloid. Then we get to ethnicities.

It's not racism--in fact if you say something viewed as against a Black person--you.are immediately pounced upon.

But it's "open season" on Jews-- because under-achievers (bigots) need a group of people who they deem too successful (Jews)--MUST BE punished for it.

Rosalind S Paaswell's avatar

There is a profound irony in the shifting of the left toward the total condemnation of Israel. The forces championed by that left are structurally and integrally opposed to all the principles of the enlightenment -- the core philosphy underlying all previous progressive movements, including when those movements used violence. Those earlier movements were all fighting to expand the economic and social benefits of the enlightenment to the working. masses and classes, or to free enslaved people. And yes, there was terrorism and violence in those movements, but still with the same goals. Now, however, the radical and perhaps not so radical left is championing forces which want to impose their religion on the people they rule, suppress and oppress women, outlaw and murder gay people, eliminate any semblance of democracy in their vision of a worldwide caliphate or a more localized caliphate. They are religious totalitarians who uses their power to deny their people the very things that the radicals left of the past wewre fighting for. See the regime in Iran; in Afghanistan; in Gaza. In the Sahel; parts of Syria, Pakistan, and Iraq. Now the radical left defines their causes and friends by how they stand AGAINST the Enlightenmment: all of the West, all white Europeans, and of course Israel whom they fabricate as all of thoses things: white, European, western. Imagine the radical left settling in with Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran....

Dana Ramos's avatar

A quote from the article: "The UN Human Rights Council, created in 2006 to replace a discredited commission, made Israel the only country in the world with a permanent agenda item of its own." YOU LEFT OUT AN IMPORTANT FACT: The chair of the UN Human Right Committee is...(drum roll)... IRAN. Iran. Yes, THAT Iran. Chair of the Human Rights Committee. What more does anyone need to know about the absurd, corrupt United Nations?

Kile B. Jones's avatar

Great piece on an unfortunate experience.

It’s absurd what the UN and others have peddled. Durban’s influence cannot be understated— Omar Barghouti would go on to speak of its influence on him. The fact that the United Nations is commemorating this—after the parallel NGO conference with The Protocols pamphlets on the tables and the infamous if I had won the war image of Adolf Hitler—is baffling.

Ten minutes after affirming that victims could define the prejudice directed against them, delegates voted 39–3 to strike the Jewish caucus’s account of antisemitism. Fiss records this inversion in real time. It seems once Jews were cast as agents of racism, racism against them was easy to disregard.