UNHRC's Palestine monitor Michael Lynk calls on French insurance company AXA to boycott Israel's Bank Hapoalim, Bank Leumi, Bank Mizrahi & Israel Discount Bank.
No UNHRC official has ever called to boycott any Chinese company. Or from any other country. bdsmovement.net/news/press-rel…
Michael Lynk is not who he claims to be.
He says his task is "to assess the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory."
In fact, his mandate is "to investigate Israel's violations"—no one else.
In fact, Michael Lynk played a leadership role in numerous Arab lobby groups in Canada, including CEPAL, which promotes “Israeli Apartheid Week” events. Lynk signed anti-Israel petitions & addressed “One State” conferences that seek to eliminate Israel. unwatch.org/mandate-to-dis…
Lynk is so partisan that Canada's FM slammed his appointment & for first time in history called on the UN to review it.
“This candidate was not put forward by Canada and does not represent its views. There are legitimate questions and concerns raised...”
Lynk tried to stop Western University's president from accepting an award from the Jewish National Fund, which advances reforestation & water treatment in Israel. He organized anti-Israel events & speakers.
Judge Goldstone: “While 'apartheid' can have broader meaning, its use is meant to evoke the situation in pre-1994 South Africa. It is an unfair and inaccurate slander against Israel, calculated to retard rather than advance peace negotiations.“ nytimes.com/2011/11/01/opi…
Even Judge Goldstone, a harsh critic of Israel, former chair of a UN inquiry against Israel—and a former board member of Human Rights Watch itself—wrote: "In Israel, there is no apartheid. Nothing there comes close to the definition of apartheid under the 1998 Rome Statute:"
.@SecBlinken I am shocked at the US change in position. In 2010 the US mobilized to find a candidate that defeated Iran @UN_Women. In 2014 the US condemned Iran's win @UN_CSW as "an outrage." Now, you didn't even try to defeat Iran—and astonishingly you refuse to condemn its win.
In its statement below to VOA & at the press briefing, the Biden Administration pointedly refused to give a simple and direct condemnation of Iran's election to the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Instead, it's all embarrassingly vague and indirect. voanews.com/middle-east/vo…
Read the official US statement:
"The unopposed candidacies of countries that engage in torture, abuse, and violations of human rights and due process was a troubling feature of this election. That is why the United States called for the vote on the Commission on the Status..."
“Human Rights Watch has lost critical perspective on a conflict in which Israel has been repeatedly attacked by Hamas and Hezbollah, organizations that go after Israeli citizens and use their own people as human shields.“
—Robert Bernstein, founder of HRW nytimes.com/2009/10/20/opi…
"These groups are supported by the government of Iran, which has openly declared its intention not just to destroy Israel but to murder Jews everywhere. This incitement to genocide is a violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide."
"Leaders of Human Rights Watch know that Hamas and Hezbollah chose to wage war from densely populated areas, deliberately transforming neighborhoods into battlefields. They know that more and better arms are flowing into both Gaza and Lebanon and are poised to strike again."
.@Valeurs: « Élire la République islamique d’Iran pour protéger les droits des femmes, c’est comme faire d’un pyromane le chef des pompiers de la ville », a ainsi déclaré Hillel Neuer, directeur exécutif d’UN Watch.
"Malgré un vote secret, l’ONG a déterminé qu’au moins quatre des 15 démocraties de l’UE et du groupe occidental membre du Conseil économique et social des Nations unies (ECOSOC) ont voté pour l’Iran. Quatre votants figurent donc parmi cette liste de pays : "
l’Australie, l’Autriche, la Finlande, la France, la Lettonie, l’Allemagne, le Luxembourg, les Pays-Bas, la Norvège, la Suisse, le Royaume-Uni... « C’est un jour noir pour les droits des femmes, et pour tous les droits de l’Homme », s’attriste Hillel Neuer.
This is a black day for women’s rights, and for all human rights.
Iran’s persecution of women is gross and systematic, both in law and in practice. The UN’s own secretary-general has reported on Iran’s ‘persistent discrimination against women and girls.'
Iran’s fundamentalist mullahs force women to cover their hair, with many arrested and attacked daily under the misogynistic hijab law. They require a woman to receive permission from her father to get married.
25 human rights groups are honored to announce the 2021 Geneva Summit Courage Award goes to Alexei Navalny.
He barely survived after being poisoned in August with Novichok nerve agent. He returned to Russia. Putin threw him in prison. He may now be dying. genevasummit.org/25-human-right…
.@leonidvolkov, the dissident’s chief strategist, welcomed the news. “It is very important and valuable that Alexey Navalny’s moral courage is recognized internationally exactly at that point of time when he goes through the most challenging test of his life,” said Volkov.
“He’s been put in prison unlawfully, only for the fact that he dared to survive a poison attack that nearly took his life. And for the fact that he was brave enough to return to Russia to continue his fight for a better life in a better Russia.“