Date
August 1, 2022
Title
Honest Reporting: Help End U.N.-Backed Hate Campaign Against Israel and the Jewish People, Honest Reporting
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"On July 25, a UN expert tasked with investigating the Jewish state told an anti-Israel website that the 'Jewish lobby' controls social media.
'We are very disheartened by the social media that is controlled largely by — whether it is the Jewish lobby or specific NGOs… A lot of money is being thrown into trying to discredit us,' Miloon Kothari said in an interview with Mondoweiss’ David Kattenburg. A long-time pro-Palestinian activist, Kattenburg once asserted that 'the Nazis would have been impressed' with what he described as the Israeli 'terrorist apartheid regime.'
Miloon Kothari is one of three members of the controversial ‘UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel’ (COI), which is currently carrying out an unprecedented open-ended probe into Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, set up following 2021’s 11-day Hamas-initiated conflict. Please join us by signing our petition demanding the resignation of Navi Pillay, Miloon Kothari and Chris Sidoti as members of the UN Commission of Inquiry.
The COI’s first 18-page report, published on June 7 of this year, charged the government in Jerusalem with everything from 'gender-based violence' to hindering 'Palestinian democratic processes.'
At the time, leading news organizations were all too eager to parrot the UN’s slanted conclusions. Yet these same outlets have refused to univocally condemn the antisemitic tropes in Kothari’s most recent statements, even as they fall within the widely-adopted IHRA working definition of antisemitism.
Over the past months, the media have also failed to note that the commission’s head, Navi Pillay, has expressed support for the BDS movement, which according to its leaders is meant to put an end to the Jewish state. Pillay has furthermore advocated for the blacklisting of companies that do business with Jewish communities located over the Green Line, and went on record as saying that Israel has 'enforced segregation on racial lines.'
Similarly, mainstream journalists did not report that COI member Chris Sidoti on June 14 at the UN Human Rights Council downplayed modern-day Judeophobia, claiming that some Jews throw around 'accusations of antisemitism' like 'rice at a wedding.' Before his stint at the UN, Sidoti worked closely with Palestinian NGOs for over 15 years.
Notably, Pillay defended Kothari’s anti-Jewish remarks in a letter to UN Human Rights Council President Federico Villegas, falsely asserting that the quotes about the “Jewish lobby” were taken out of context. UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer pointed out that, under the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) rules, commissioners should, in all cases, have 'a proven record of independence and impartiality,' which is clearly not the case here.
Indeed, as HonestReporting has said from the start, antisemitic, pro-Palestinian “experts” like Kothari, Pillay, and Sidoti cannot be trusted to approach the Arab-Israeli conflict without bias. Their crusade against the world’s only Jewish state cannot be allowed to continue.
Please join us by signing our petition demanding the resignation of Navi Pillay, Miloon Kothari and Chris Sidoti as members of the UN Commission of Inquiry.
Additionally, we would be grateful if you could join forces with us by circulating the link to the petition among your friends and followers. Together, we can make a change."
'We are very disheartened by the social media that is controlled largely by — whether it is the Jewish lobby or specific NGOs… A lot of money is being thrown into trying to discredit us,' Miloon Kothari said in an interview with Mondoweiss’ David Kattenburg. A long-time pro-Palestinian activist, Kattenburg once asserted that 'the Nazis would have been impressed' with what he described as the Israeli 'terrorist apartheid regime.'
Miloon Kothari is one of three members of the controversial ‘UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel’ (COI), which is currently carrying out an unprecedented open-ended probe into Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, set up following 2021’s 11-day Hamas-initiated conflict. Please join us by signing our petition demanding the resignation of Navi Pillay, Miloon Kothari and Chris Sidoti as members of the UN Commission of Inquiry.
The COI’s first 18-page report, published on June 7 of this year, charged the government in Jerusalem with everything from 'gender-based violence' to hindering 'Palestinian democratic processes.'
At the time, leading news organizations were all too eager to parrot the UN’s slanted conclusions. Yet these same outlets have refused to univocally condemn the antisemitic tropes in Kothari’s most recent statements, even as they fall within the widely-adopted IHRA working definition of antisemitism.
Over the past months, the media have also failed to note that the commission’s head, Navi Pillay, has expressed support for the BDS movement, which according to its leaders is meant to put an end to the Jewish state. Pillay has furthermore advocated for the blacklisting of companies that do business with Jewish communities located over the Green Line, and went on record as saying that Israel has 'enforced segregation on racial lines.'
Similarly, mainstream journalists did not report that COI member Chris Sidoti on June 14 at the UN Human Rights Council downplayed modern-day Judeophobia, claiming that some Jews throw around 'accusations of antisemitism' like 'rice at a wedding.' Before his stint at the UN, Sidoti worked closely with Palestinian NGOs for over 15 years.
Notably, Pillay defended Kothari’s anti-Jewish remarks in a letter to UN Human Rights Council President Federico Villegas, falsely asserting that the quotes about the “Jewish lobby” were taken out of context. UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer pointed out that, under the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) rules, commissioners should, in all cases, have 'a proven record of independence and impartiality,' which is clearly not the case here.
Indeed, as HonestReporting has said from the start, antisemitic, pro-Palestinian “experts” like Kothari, Pillay, and Sidoti cannot be trusted to approach the Arab-Israeli conflict without bias. Their crusade against the world’s only Jewish state cannot be allowed to continue.
Please join us by signing our petition demanding the resignation of Navi Pillay, Miloon Kothari and Chris Sidoti as members of the UN Commission of Inquiry.
Additionally, we would be grateful if you could join forces with us by circulating the link to the petition among your friends and followers. Together, we can make a change."
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