Cruz slams U.N.'s Israel ‘genocide’ charge, pushes for consequences

"Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz criticized a United Nations report accusing Israel of genocide, warning that the Trump administration and Congress had tools at their disposal to sanction those behind it...

Anne Bayefsky, director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and president of Human Rights Voices, told Fox News Digital that ‘the latest report of the U.N.’s phony ‘inquiry’ promotes genocide – against Jews.’

Bayefsky said the report ‘obscenely rationalizes the crimes against humanity committed by Hamas and other Palestinians on Oct. 7 as an understandable reaction to prior Israeli wrongs,’ and ‘downgrades the mass murder, rape, torture, and trauma of Israelis by suggesting that not enough Jews were harmed to pose an ‘existential threat’ to Israel.’

Bayefsky said that the COI, which has previously been accused of omitting important facts from its reporting, ‘makes zero recommendations for Hamas.’ She also said the report mentions the terror group’s tunnel network, which was ‘integral to the Oct. 7 atrocities,’ only ‘in the context of criticizing Israel.’...

Bayefsky said that ‘U.S. law withholds funds for the COI, but clearly it has not had the intended impact.’ She argued it is ‘high time’ to do a ‘lot more to terminate the dangers that the U.N. and its COI pose to both the United States and Israel.’

Fox News Digital asked the State Department whether it intended to sanction COI members or prevent their travel to the United Nations. The State Department did not issue a response by press time..."