UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL

Lets see worst offender these days is Canada! Yup you heard it hear first. Ant the UNHRC will devote a whole 90 minutes to discussions about Syria. Apparently the hoorors of the non-occupation of "Palestine" is much worse than the wholesale slaughter of Syrians because the UNHRC has scheduled a full day of ISrael bashing.

U.N. rights chief blasts U.S. & Canada in opening address to human rights council

The 47-nation U.N. Human Rights Council opened a 3-week session yesterday. According to the official schedule, next week on June 27th the council will hold a 90-minute debate on Syria, possibly featuring Kofi Annan. The following week, on July 2nd, the council will feature an entire day on alleged violations in the "Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)," featuring Richard Falk, the council expert on Palestine who was condemned last year by Ban Ki-Moon for promoting 9/11 conspiracies.
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• SLAMMING AMERICA: High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay used a major speech before the council to express “serious concern” over U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan and to call for investigations, echoing comments she made in a recent visit to that country. Her remarks sparked a feeding frenzy in the room by some of the world's worst regimes, with Cuba, Pakistan and Iran rushing to quote her criticism of the United States in their own plenary speeches. READ MORE

• BLAME CANADA: Ms. Pillay singled out Canada by citing a Quebec law on public rallies as a prime example of "alarming" moves to restrict freedom of assembly in many parts of the world. Her comments -- which said nothing about China, Cuba, Iran, or Saudi Arabia -- provoked a sharp Canadian response.
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full artilce:
networkedblogs.com/z9pv0

More about the UNHRC

A Hamas victory at the UN Human Rights Council
By ANNE BAYEFSKY
06/25/2012 22:01
A Hamas-affiliated organization and its supporters held an “informal parallel meeting” promoting the destruction of the Jewish state.

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Here is some of what Habeeb had to say while speaking in a UN room, at a UN-provided microphone, at a UN-advertised event associated with the UN’s top human rights body: “In 1947, 1948 and 1949 the Palestinian refugees were ethnically cleansed by the Israeli gangs.... Some Arab armies came to Palestine to fight the Zionist project, which came from all over Europe to take over Palestine and to make it as a national home for the Jews, although it was always the national home for the Palestinians for thousands and thousands of years.”

Habeeb, a well-known radical and “one state solution” campaigner, didn’t come alone. Various publications of his Palestinian Return Center were made readily available on UN premises.

There was the pamphlet with this bigoted diatribe: “a racist ideology is inherent in political Zionism and... is being implemented as a political project by the state of Israel.

Political Zionism idealizes and advances a racist and chauvinistic... religion and nationalism.”

And there was the map with the word “Palestine” splashed across the entirety of what is now Israel. Advocating the elimination of a UN member state, the most elementary violation of the UN Charter, is evidently acceptable literature in the belly of the UN human rights beast.
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full article:
www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/...