Top UN Official: Israel Is An Apartheid State, Must Be Dismantled (Plus: UN Adopts Resolution Outlawing All Criticism Of Islam)
Apartheid-era blacks regularly launched rockets at the schools and hospitals of the "enemies of God" whom promised never to stop trying to wipe out, right? Because as long as that's true then - yeah - this is just like that:
United Nations General Assembly President Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann on Monday likened Israel's policies toward the Palestinians to South Africa's treatment of blacks under apartheid. Israel's actions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip were like "the apartheid of an earlier era," said Brockmann, of Nicaragua, speaking at the annual debate marking the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. He added: "We must not be afraid to call something what it is." Brockmann stressed that it was important for the United Nations to use the heavily-charged term since it was the institution itself that had passed the International Convention against the crime of apartheid.
He also called for "concrete action" - boycotts, divestment, sanctions, etc - until Israel is fundamentally dismantled. You'll remember this hatemonger from when he hugged Ahmadinejad right after Ahmadinejad called for the elimination of Israel. That might be awkward behavior for the UNGA President who is supposed to represent all UN member states - but it's exactly what you'd expect from an anti-Western Marxist hack on the Iranian payroll.
While UN officials compete to see who can tell the most vicious libel about the Jewish State on one side, they've been working for a long time to ban even the most legitimate criticism of Islamic radicalism on the other:
By a vote of 85 to 50, with 42 abstaining, the UN General Assembly today adopted a draft resolution calling on all countries to alter their legal and constitutional systems to prevent "defamation of religions," asserting that "Islam is frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and terrorism." The decision, sponsored by Islamic states with the support of Venezuela and Belarus, drew immediate protests from human rights activists and legal experts. "This is just the latest shot in an intensifying campaign of UN resolutions that dangerously seek to import Islamic anti-blasphemy prohibitions into the discourse of international human rights law," said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, an indpendent human rights monitoring group in Geneva.
This measure is ostensibly necessary because Muslims are at risk of a "racial Holocaust. That makes sense if (a) there had ever been a Holocaust against Muslims or (b) there was a world leader who regularly described Muslim states as "cesspools" who will soon be destroyed. But if it's actually Jews who were victims of a Holocaust and the Jewish State which is subject to defamation - well, then this would just an attempt to silence opponents of political Islam while anti-Semites go about inciting genocidal anti-Israel hatred.
References:
* Hamas: Of Course We'll Never Stop Attacking "Zionist Enemies Of God" [MR]
* Top UN official: Israel's policies are like apartheid of bygone era [Ha'aretz]
* UNGA head accuses Israel of apartheid [JPost]
* UN President Who Hugged Ahmadinejad After Cesspool Speech: Iran's Totally Not Anti-Semitic [MR]
* Surprise: Ahmadinejad-Hugging, Israel-Condemning UN General Assembly President Is An Anti-Western Marxist Hack [MR]
* West Trying, Failing To Block De-Facto UN Ban On Criticizing Islam (Plus: Indonesia As A "Moderate Muslim Nation") [MR]
* UN Bans "Defamation of Religion" [Scoop]
* UN Reports That Muslims Are at Risk of Racial Holocaust [Gateway Pundit]
Previously:
* Israel To UN: Hey, How About You Don't Obsessively Focus On Us For Just One Day?
* Australia Embraces Anti-Israel Diplomacy In Anticipation Of Obama Administration
* UN Holds Day Of Mourning Over Israel's Independence, Shows Film That's Exactly As Anti-Semitic As You'd Expect
