Righteous smackdown of UN Human Rights Council's anti-Israel, pro-jihad bias
Jihad Watch (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Watch here. The page is in Hebrew but the video is in English. (Thanks to Joshua.)...
Eliminating corporal punishment: a human rights imperative for Europe's children (Children's Rights and Family Law)
Jihad Watch (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Watch here. The page is in Hebrew but the video is in English. (Thanks to Joshua.)...
Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg and his delegation visited the Russian Federation from 2 to 11 September 2009. In the course of the visit the Commissioner held discussions on the most serious human rights problems in the Chechen Republic and the Republic of Ingushetia with national and local authorities, as well as non-governmental organisations. The Commissioner concluded that, in view...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Uganda's human rights situation will be reviewed by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2011 for the first time.
View from Geneva (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Criticism of the U.N. human Rights Council’s problematic record — where there have been more condemnatory resolutions, special sessions and fact-finding missions against Israel than on the whole world combined — is “propaganda,” UN rights chief Navi Pillay told the Irish Times. The decision by the Obama administration to reverse a Bush- era...
News from TheMediaLine.org. (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
International officials fear the spread of floggings, amputation, torture and death by stoning. The current and former United Nations experts responsible for human rights in Somalia have condemned a series of stonings in the war-torn country. Dr Shamsul Bari, an independent expert appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council to report on Somalia, expressed concern...
Weiwen's religion blog (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
U.S. Representative Keith Ellison (a Democrat from Minnesota) commends a report by Richard Goldstone on Israeli actions in Lebanon . The article is dated 11/3/09. Who is afraid of Richard Goldstone? No one should be. Not even the U.S. Congress — yet it is poised on Tuesday to condemn the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Goldstone report on violations of international...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Richard Grenell, former spokesman for the US Ambassador to the UN: I certainly don't expect the New York Times to admit that one of their greatest bogeymen turned out to be correct about Iran's nuclear game-playing. However, the Times Editorial Board did once say "John Bolton is right. Kofi Annan is wrong." Unfortunately it wasn't about the Iran nuclear issue they were talking about...
View from Geneva (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
On November 23, the General Assembly’s Third Committee adopted the Report of the Human Rights Council, introduced by Zambia for the African Group, and covering the period of March through May 2009. Unlike last year’s resolution, which was approved by a vote of 117 in favor, 5 against and 55 abstaining, this year’s text was [...]
YID With LID (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
... Somebody used to say that all the time...John Bolton! El Baradei is saying that John Bolton was right? Richard Grenell, who served as the spokesman for Bolton when he was UN Ambassador says its time that someone admits that John Bolton was right about Iran after all: John Bolton Was Right After All Richard Grenell: Stonewalling By Iran, Compromises By The Obama Administration (CBS)...
Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
IsiLeibler Isi Leibler Mailing ListNovember 26, 2009 Homepage | Israel | Diaspora Jewry | Antisemitism | International Affairs | Judaism Why does so much of the world hate us? by Isi LeiblerNovember 26, 2009 http://wordfromjerusalem.com/?p=1910 (click on the picture below for a video of Richard Kemp testifying at the UN Human Rights Council) I
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
... has concluded that Israel is the principal cause for the Middle East impasse, perhaps they are right?" The question is particularly pertinent in relation to Europe, which has turned so dramatically against Israel. In these "enlightened", postmodernist secular societies, which shun all manifestations of nationalism, Israel is no longer considered a revival of Jewish nationhood,...
FresnoZionism.org -- ציונות פרסנו (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Recently a friend sent me this video (the audio is in English with Hebrew subtitles). Many of you may have seen it; the YouTube copy got over 426,000 hits since it was posted in 2007. It shows Hillel Neuer, director of the UN Watch organization, eloquently denouncing the one year old UN Human Rights Council — [...]
Israelated (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
... has concluded that Israel is the principal cause for the Middle East impasse, perhaps they are right?" The question is particularly pertinent in relation to Europe, which has turned so dramatically against Israel. In these "enlightened", postmodernist secular societies, which shun all manifestations of nationalism, Israel is no longer considered a revival of Jewish nationhood, but as a colonial...
FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Recognition of human rights expert Richard Goldston's investigation is essential to the peace process in Israel and Palestine -- and the Congress is trying to demonize it. By Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal. Posted November 20, 2009 Courtesy Of Alter Net Editor's Note: The following is a transcript of Bill Moyers' must-read interview with Richard Goldstone , who accused both the Israel...
What Really happened (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Israel, which has recently been condemned by the UN Human Rights Council because of their war crimes (1), asks Germany to build them two new warships – for free. (2) After the German chancellor Merkel argued in front of the US congress that “whoever threatens Israel, threatens us” (3), it seems as if Israel will get what it wants. This wouldn’t, however,...