The U.N. should be ashamed of its anti-Israel boycott list

"I knew if we waited long enough, the United Nations would make itself useful. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has produced a handy catalogue of companies that supporters of Israel can give their business to. Of course, this was not Michelle Bachelet's intention.
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Now Bachelet has released 'a database of all business enterprises involved in certain specified activities related to the Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory'. She does not mean to celebrate their commitment to serving customers and clients in sometimes dangerous environments. No, her roster was compiled at the request of the UN Human Rights Council. This is a body in which countries whose idea of human rights is gender-neutral torture and equal-opportunity ballot-rigging get together and pass reams of vexatious resolutions against Israel.

Bachelet's list doesn't explicitly encourage the blackballing of companies mentioned. But it is a nod and a wink to the methods of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement. It's too obvious to be clever but it's still sly: a coycott, rather than a boycott.

BDS's economic warfare against the Jewish state has had little success but that's not the point: a UN body is tacitly legitimising its agenda and even doing the research for it. The UN's obsession with this tiny strip of land on the shores of the Mediterranean has nothing to do with human rights. If Vlad the Impaler were around today he'd be a special rapporteur on exsanguination and no one in Geneva would see anything untoward about it. What OHCHR's list is about is the UN's institutional hostility towards Israel and support for 'de-judaising' Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria.
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Be in no doubt: if the OHCHR gets away with this, Israel won't be the last country to find its economy targeted in this way. The policies of any member-state will be open to this kind of political interference. The states that want to avert this eventuality should demand Bachelet goes and reduce its contributions until she does."