Thread by @AvivaKlompas

1. Israel should not cooperate with the UN special commission investigating the May 2021 fighting between #Israel & #Hamas in Gaza. A thread ⬇️

2. The @UN has a long and shameful record of anti-Israel bias. Israel should not subject itself to a kangaroo court that is probing alleged violations of international human rights law with the goal of collecting evidence that could lead to legal action.

3. Israel’s ambassador @MeiravEShahar in @IsraelinGeneva wrote, “There is simply no reason to believe that Israel will receive reasonable, equitable and non-discriminatory treatment from the Council, or from this Commission of Inquiry.”

4. The @UN_HRC, in particular, has long demonstrated an obsessive anti-Israel bias. Israel is the only country in the world whose rights record comes up for discussion at every council session.

5. Case in point, #Russia is agitating to invade a sovereign European state and the first item of discussion on the upcoming UN Human Rights Council agenda is...Israel.

6. Further, the UN’s Human Rights Council includes some of the world’s most brazen human rights abusers. They include China🇨🇳, Cuba🇨🇺, Eritrea🇪🇷, Libya🇱🇾, Pakistan🇵🇰, Russia🇷🇺, Somalia🇸🇴, and Venezuela🇻🇪.

7. Members of the UN’s investigative commission - who are supposed to be impartial - have previously denounced Israel on the very subject matter that they are called upon to investigate.

8. The head of the investigative commission, Navi Pillay, is on record calling Israel an 'apartheid state' and has openly supported the BDS movement.
For examples, see @UNWatch’s & @HillelNeuer’s feeds.

9. The UN’s obsessive bias against #Israel is an injustice to Israel, but the greater injustice is to the tens of millions of people around the world that need a champion of human rights and the rule of law.