The U.N. antisemitism report's shortcomings

"Suggesting that the United Nations – a notorious inciter against Israel – could produce a valuable report on global antisemitism seemed farfetched. This however is what Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief Ahmed Shaheed has done... What is missing from the report belongs to two categories. The first is issues which are de facto taboo in a report of the UN. The second concerns subjects which could and should have been mentioned. The main item in the taboo category is the huge role played by the UN and associated organizations in promoting antisemitism. Their focus is on hatred of Israel. As a result, the rapporteur could not explicitly mention that there are three major types of antisemitism: religious, nationalistic-ethnic and anti-Israeli hatred.

A SECOND major taboo subject at the UN is linking antisemitism to the Muslim world. Muslim states make up a large percentage of UN members. They are the major single force in the UN's antisemitic hate-mongering activities. Even a superficial look at global antisemitism makes it clear that by far the largest threat to world Jewry comes from parts of the Muslim world. It is only there that one finds heads of states promoting extreme antisemitism. The ADL Global study found that 49% of Muslims are antisemites...

Another major issue which might be taboo as well, but which should be mentioned in any full-fledged report on antisemitism, is that this hatred is an integral part of Western culture, or alternatively, that it is profoundly interwoven with it. Yet another issue, which perhaps is taboo but is far too important to ignore, is antisemitism in Socialist parties. In the British Labour Party, which many now consider institutionally antisemitic, it expresses itself both as classic antisemitism and anti-Israelism. In many other Socialist, social democratic or labor parties, it exists mainly as anti-Israelism..."