Date
August 4, 2022
Title
Beverly Hills denounces U.N. commission, Beverly Press Park Labrea News
Author(s)
Aaron Blevins
Note
"The Beverly Hills City Council on Aug. 2 unanimously approved a resolution calling on the United Nations to disband the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel.
According to a staff report, the item was brought forth by Councilman John Mirisch after two commission members allegedly made antisemitic statements.
‘Sadly, we see once again that the United Nations and some of its various associated agencies show their pathological hatred of Jews, and the attempt to delegitimize Israel is nothing short of antisemitism, also known as ‘geo-hatred,’’ he said.
Mirisch said one of the commissioners made a ‘very cynical attempt’ to trivialize Israel’s existence, but the U.N. has made several attempts to deny the connection between ‘the Jewish people and our ancestral homeland.’
According to a press release, the U.N.’s Human Rights Council on May 27 held a special session on ‘the grave human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem’ and adopted a resolution ‘ensuring respect for international human rights law and international humanitarian law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and in Israel.’
Through the resolution, the council decided to ‘urgently establish 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,’ the release stated.
The resolution requested that the commission ‘investigate all underlying root causes of recurrent tensions, instability and protraction of conflict, including systematic discrimination and repression based on national, ethnic, racial or religious identity,’ according to the release.
Beverly Hills policy and management analyst Cindy Owens said one of the commission members, Chris Sidoti, of Australia, recently stated that ‘accusations of antisemitism are thrown around like rice at weddings.’
She declined to repeat some of the comments by Commissioner Miloon Kothari, of India, but they were included in a staff report."
According to a staff report, the item was brought forth by Councilman John Mirisch after two commission members allegedly made antisemitic statements.
‘Sadly, we see once again that the United Nations and some of its various associated agencies show their pathological hatred of Jews, and the attempt to delegitimize Israel is nothing short of antisemitism, also known as ‘geo-hatred,’’ he said.
Mirisch said one of the commissioners made a ‘very cynical attempt’ to trivialize Israel’s existence, but the U.N. has made several attempts to deny the connection between ‘the Jewish people and our ancestral homeland.’
According to a press release, the U.N.’s Human Rights Council on May 27 held a special session on ‘the grave human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem’ and adopted a resolution ‘ensuring respect for international human rights law and international humanitarian law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and in Israel.’
Through the resolution, the council decided to ‘urgently establish 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,’ the release stated.
The resolution requested that the commission ‘investigate all underlying root causes of recurrent tensions, instability and protraction of conflict, including systematic discrimination and repression based on national, ethnic, racial or religious identity,’ according to the release.
Beverly Hills policy and management analyst Cindy Owens said one of the commission members, Chris Sidoti, of Australia, recently stated that ‘accusations of antisemitism are thrown around like rice at weddings.’
She declined to repeat some of the comments by Commissioner Miloon Kothari, of India, but they were included in a staff report."
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