The representative from Khiam Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture, UN Human Rights Council, September 26, 2017
UN-accredited NGOs at a UN meeting on intolerance attempted to delegitimize Israel's creation and very existence as a Jewish state. The NGO statements at the UN Human Rights Council session on "Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance" on September 26, 2017, included the following:
- Palestinian Return Centre: "There has never been in the history of colonial movements more sinister ideology and practice of racism than that applied consistently on the Palestinian people for one hundred years by Zionism and the state of Israel."
- Khiam Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture: "The systematic racial discrimination of the Zionist entity against the Palestinian people is a crime against humanity. Over 50 laws in the racist Israel discriminate against Palestinians, be they Muslim or Christian. I will refer to some: The Jewish Nature of The State law that stipulates that it is a national state for the Jewish people..."