Rights Council

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.)...

Report by Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, Following His Visit to the Russian Federation on 2-11 September 2009

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 of the...

U.N. rights chief says criticism of Israel-bashing council is ‘propaganda’

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 boycott...

UN Human Rights Body to Review Country

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.

U.S. Representative Keith Ellison (a Democrat from...

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...

U.N. Raises Alarm Over Islamic Stonings in Somalia

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 over a rise in...

John Bolton Was Right -- By: Jonah Goldberg

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...

GA endorses HRC Report

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 [...]

UN Nuke Cheif Declares John Bolton Was Right About Iran

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)...

IsiLeibler Isi Leibler Mailing ListNovember 26, 2009...

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

TaxPayers' Alliance bulletin - 27th November 2009...

Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009

TaxPayers' Alliance bulletin - 27th November 2009 Parking fines: the £328 million council cash cow Many taxpayers perceive parking enforcement as a money spinning scheme and the right of councils to retain the proceeds from parking enforcement is a major source of friction between councils and the public. A research note released this week by the TPA and the Drivers'...

Israel is Europe's blind spot | Isi Leibler

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,...

Outflank the UN

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 — [...]

Israel is Europe's blind spot :: Docstalk

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...

• Israel is Europe's blind spot | Isi Leibler - The Guardian

Chris congratulates local musician Dean

Chris & Glynis Abbott (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009

... in Middlesbrough, Saltburn and New Marske. At tomorrow’s meeting of Redcar & Cleveland Council, Redcar Councillor Chris Abbott will ask the Council’s Cabinet Member for Culture, Leisure & Tourism to join him in congratulating Dean on his achievements. Chris said: “Dean is an exceptionally talented young man who deserves the Council’s congratulations....