Fury aimed at antisemitic U.N. committee probing Hamas’ sexual atrocities against Israeli women

"The U.N.’s controversial Commission of Inquiry (COI) tasked with investigating Hamas’ crimes of rape and sexual abuse of Israelis has been deemed an ‘antisemitic’ group by the Jewish State’s ambassador to the U.N. that is incapable of conducting a fair probe.

‘The antisemitic Commission of Inquiry, established by the morally distorted Human Rights Council, which recently appointed Iran as chair of the council’s Social Forum, is biased against Israel in every way,’ Israel’s Ambassador Gilad Erdan told Fox News Digital.

‘Therefore, Israel has zero trust in its findings and its illegitimate activities. Its ‘investigation’ into the terror organization’s sexual crimes against Israeli women on Oct. 7 is akin to Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas in Gaza, investigating its crimes.’

Erdan is a fierce critic of the U.N.’s longstanding alleged bias against the Jewish state.

‘The commissioners’ pre-existing prejudice against Israel is abundantly clear,’ he added. ‘They have denied Israel's right to be a member of the U.N., they have undermined the accepted working definition of antisemitism, and they support the boycott of Israel.’

Anne Bayefsky, director of the New York-based Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, told Fox News Digital, ’There is no possibility whatsoever that the COI will investigate anything about Israel in a fair manner. This isn't speculation, it's fact.’

The origin of the COI is grounded in a 2021 resolution from the controversial U.N. Human Rights Council, which has also been embroiled in scandal over its alleged bias against Israel.

The Human Rights Council established ‘an ongoing, independent, international commission of inquiry to investigate, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel, all alleged violations of international humanitarian law and abuses of international human rights law leading up and since 13 April 2021.’

Bayefsky, also president of Human Rights Voices, has written extensively about the COI, and she took the chairwoman of the COI, Navi Pillay, and her fellow committee members to task for stoking antisemitism.

‘The three individuals on this so-called ‘inquiry,’ starting with Pillay herself, are utterly biased,’ Bayefsky said. ‘That's precisely why they were selected in the first place. Their personal records demonstrate rank antisemitism.

‘They are running an antisemitic inquisition, not an investigation. And the only reason they have a sudden interest in the horrifying reality of Palestinian Arab rape of Jewish women and girls is because their faux legal charade is at risk of even greater delegitimization.’...

Bayefsky also noted that Jordanian national Reem Alsalem, U.N. special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, ‘went silent for two months’ and she ‘has refused to denounce Hamas' sexual violence against Jewish women and girls.’

Alsalem issued a statement Nov. 20 on the U.N. website but did not explicitly condemn Hamas for carrying out rapes and sexual assaults against Israeli women and girls. The bulk of Alsalem’s press release was devoted to blaming Israel for alleged violence against Palestinian women. Fox News Digital sent press queries to Alsalem.

‘Israel is a democracy governed by the rule of law,’ Bayefsky said. ‘It knows how to conduct an inquiry of criminal acts perpetrated against its citizens on its soil. The question for the rest of the world is, do you really give a damn about ensuring Palestinian terrorists are held accountable?’..."