The U.N. Declares War Against the Jewish People:

"The United Nations and its top human rights body, the UN Human Rights Council, is now engaged in an active campaign to destroy the state of Israel – by way of lethal politics.¹ The tool is a “Commission of Inquiry,”² created last year by the Council,³ which has just reported for the first time.⁴ Its opening salvo: the Jewish state is a racist state, and discrimination by Jews of non-Jews is a driver and root cause of the Israeli-Palestinian Arab conflict.⁵

The three commissioners appointed to conduct the “inquiry,” chaired by former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, were on record accusing Israel of apartheid, and urging boycotts and criminal prosecution – in advance of inquiring or investigating anything.⁶

Extraordinarily, even for the UN, their job description has no end date,⁷ and the process has been financed in perpetuity.⁸ At least two reports annually will pound a steady drumbeat of modern antisemitism, namely, delegitimizing Israel.

Israel itself will not be voluntarily appearing before the firing squad. But when the UN announced it would open the door to submissions, an historic campaign was launched by NGOs to fill the UN inbox with what its Council and inquisitors didn’t expect or want to hear.

To date, more than five million unique submissions and individual names of Jewish victims of Arab incitement and violence have been delivered.⁹

The UN handed the “Inquiry” a search warrant unrestricted to any period of time, a license to seek “all underlying root causes” of the conflict, and a green light to hunt for “systematic discrimination and repression.”¹⁰

So we submitted 4,812,829 named victims of Jew hatred advocated and spread with the assistance and participation of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Amin al-Husseini. This Nazi collaborator and propagandist is the man Palestinians themselves called “Palestine’s national leader,” “our hero,” and “the voice of the Palestinian people.”¹¹ He remains a singular role model to the Palestinian terrorists and political leaders of today.

Actually looking for a root cause? Under al-Husseini’s leadership, the strategy of equating the Jewish presence in the land of Israel with an existential threat to the Muslim faith become an Arab template for attempting to achieve the ethnic cleansing of Jews from the Middle East throughout the 20^th and 21^st centuries.¹²

How about systematic discrimination and repression and its victims?

We submitted the names of each of six hundred thousand Jewish refugees and victims of Arab persecution in Middle East and North African nations in the past seventy-five years.¹³ Jewish refugees from the land of Israel were the longest-standing refugees in human history. Exiled to Arab and Muslim countries from their indigenous homeland, they were subject to systematic discrimination and repression and lived as second-class citizens for thousands of years.

But against all odds, they persevered, retained their religious identity, and more than 800,000 returned to their ancestral homeland after the rebirth of Israel in 1948 – following huge sacrifices, harrowing escapes, systematic robbery, and racist expulsion.

And then there are the violations of human rights – starting with the right to life.

We submitted the names of 4,220 civilians, Israelis and foreign visitors, killed – gunned down, blown apart, knifed, stoned, rammed – by unremitting Arab violence from the beginning of modern Zionism until today.¹⁴

We submitted the identities of 24,092 Israeli military and security forces who have fallen in defense of their country.¹⁵ Those who made the ultimate sacrifice protecting Israel’s inhabitants from attacks driven by one overriding Arab goal: to prevent, deny, reject and eradicate the modern Jewish state.

The “inquiry” advertised that it would “adopt a victim-centered approach in all of its work.”¹⁶ So we sent over 5.4 million identified victims of Jew hatred, encouraged or incited or celebrated or perpetrated by Palestinian Arabs and their Arab brethren.

Also submitted were 46,862 submissions¹⁷ containing detailed accounts of developments on the ground, weekly situation reports, video and photographic evidence, legal documentation and analysis, and meticulous demonstrations of Palestinian antisemitism, remorseless violence directed at Jews, and the unrelenting attempt to commit genocide since Israel’s modern founding.

The “inquiry” said it wanted evidence of “overall patterns, policies, historical legacies and structural inequalities that affect the enjoyment of human rights.”¹⁸

So, we gave them documentation that the Palestinian Authority pays bounties for killing Jews – a dollar amount that increases the more deadly the attack. Irrefutable evidence that the Palestinian Authority and Hamas in Gaza maintain a system of racist indoctrination demonizing Jews and inciting violence against Jews – in schools, in official television programming, summer camps, public displays and the selection of public honors. And we gave them quotes from Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and former longtime Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat insisting that Jews will not be permitted to live in a Palestinian state.

The inquisitors declared they wanted to know about “systematic discrimination and repression based on national, ethnic, racial or religious identity.”¹⁹

So, we showed them the Palestinian Penal Code saying that Palestinians are forbidden from selling land to Jews on pain of “life imprisonment with hard labor.”²⁰ Sent evidence that Jews who make a wrong turn in their automobiles, and find themselves in “Palestinian territory,” risk losing their lives – and have. Evidence that Abbas has referred to Jews as “filth,”²¹ unclean, undeserving to comingle with others. A copy of the Hamas Covenant, the governing document of the Palestinians running Gaza, demonstrating its grotesque antisemitism and unabashed call for genocide against the Jews.

And then there is their quest for those allegedly elusive “underlying root causes.”²²

Our submissions contained evidence of the ceaseless, unrelenting, violent attacks on Jews prior, during and after Israel’s independence in May 1948 until today. War after war, terror attack after terror attack, suicide bombing, kidnapping, torture, arson…With rockets, mortars, grenades, pipe bombs, drones, firebombs, stones, bullets, vehicles, knives…²³ Almost every day, decade after decade. With one goal: the ethnic cleansing of Jews from the river to the sea. Genocide – the ultimate violation of human rights.

We sent all these submissions. And then what happened?

The Inquiry’s first report says: “the Commission has received several thousand written submissions.”²⁴

Except we carefully logged all our submissions, even as the UN refused to acknowledge them. Meaning millions of submissions challenging the UN routine of Israel-bashing and anti-Israel bias didn’t make the cut in a report that claims to present “an overview of the wide range of violations and abuses at the heart of the conflict.”²⁵

Moreover, the report repeatedly cites “stakeholders,” but the tiny subset of stakeholders featured turn out all to be Israel-bashers.²⁶

The report finds no Palestinian terrorist, no Palestinian terrorist organizations, and no Palestinian terrorism. The furthest the grand inquisitors ventured was to speculate the actions of Gaza’s “de facto authorities” and anonymous “Palestinian armed groups” “could spread terror among the civilian population in Israel.”²⁷ As for “Hamas,” they’re only named definitively as engaging in the “exercise of government-like functions.”²⁸

In this la-la land, Israelis interact and react to Palestinians differently in a security vacuum. Therefore, Jews must be racists. The report repeatedly claims that Jews discriminate against non-Jews and couldn’t come up with a single instance the other way around. And there’s no mention of the fact that Arabs have more rights and freedoms in Israel than in any Arab state, including the would-be Palestinian one.

The report takes direct aim at Israeli laws granting every Jew the right to return to their indigenous homeland and find safe harbor from a world that allowed the Jewish people to fall victim to the gravest atrocity in human history.²⁹ In other words, they interpreted the fulfillment of Jewish self-determination – a Jewish homeland for the Jewish people – not as an event two thousand years overdue, but as a wrong to non-Jews.³⁰

The report delivered exactly what the Human Rights Council wanted and what the inquirers had opined before they inquired: (1) The underlying root cause of the conflict is “the occupation”³¹ – that is, it’s Israel’s fault; (2) “discrimination” by Jews of non-Jews is responsible for feeding resentment, fueling tensions, and driving violence;³² (3) the solution is “individual criminal responsibility”³³ (International Criminal Court here we come³⁴); and (4) alleged duties of “third parties” and “private actors”³⁵ (BDS) are high up on the inquiry’s to-do list.

Perhaps the central UN pathology at work here is the cyclical nature of this attack on right and wrong and common sense. The “inquiry” was designed to identify and then parrot “the similarities in the findings”³⁶ of decades of prior anti-Israel, grossly biased UN reports, statements and resolutions. And then to turn around and blame Israel for failing to “implement” those noxious findings.³⁷

Hence, the report’s overriding standard of “proof” that the Jewish state is allegedly a moral affront to humankind is this: the UN said so. Not only did the report lean on a system of entrenched prejudice, Pillay relied heavily on prior UN hatchet jobs in which she herself played a key role.

In short, this UN exercise in historical revisionism seeks to invent a narrative of powerless Arab victims and criminal Jewish perpetrators, invert who violated the rights of whom, and challenge the moral imperative of the modern Jewish state. It is far more than an outrage. Unless stopped, it has and will continue to breathe oxygen into a highly flammable cauldron of modern antisemitism.

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