The United Nations: Accessory to Slavery and other Crimes Against Humanity

[shira]

The United Nations: Accessory to Slavery and other Crimes Against Humanity
by Simon Deng
October 19, 2011 at 5:00 am



Like you, I came to this conference, The Perils of Global Intolerance to protest this third Durban conference which is an effort based on a set of lies, and organized by nations who are themselves are guilty of the worst kinds of oppression.

Durban III will not help the victims of racism. It will only isolate and target the Jewish state. It is a tool of the enemies of Israel. The UN has lost its way. Its obsession with the Jewish obvious: . For over 50 years, 82% of the UN General Assembly emergency meetings have been about condemning one state - Israel. Hitler could not have been made happier.

Given all the good Israel does in the world, given its democracy and its striving to follow the highest standards of human rights, even in the face of the most brutal, the most fanatic enemies, the Durban Conference is an outrage. All decent people know that.

But friends, I come here today to make a different case. I come with what you might at first think is a radical proposition: I come to tell you that there are peoples who suffer from the UN's anti-Israelism even more than the Israelis. I belong to one of those people.

more of this amazing article here:
http://www.hudson-ny.org/2518/united-nations-slavery

[King_David]

1. That conference is a disgrace ! nt

[saras]

2. Disgrace? The OP is doing a pretty good job of that.

"Given all the good Israel does in the world, given its democracy and its striving to follow the highest standards of human rights, even in the face of the most brutal, the most fanatic enemies,"

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

and an unrec for violating Godwin's law

[vminfla]

3. Hypocrisy and Irony have been the stalwart bastions of the UN for years

It, like the League of Nations, has proven to be a failed experiment, counter-productive to promoting democracy and human rights.

[vminfla]

4. The United Nations: Accessory to Slavery and other Crimes Against Humanity

Like you, I came to this conference, The Perils of Global Intolerance to protest this third Durban conference which is an effort based on a set of lies, and organized by nations who are themselves are guilty of the worst kinds of oppression.

Durban III will not help the victims of racism. It will only isolate and target the Jewish state. It is a tool of the enemies of Israel. The UN has lost its way. Its obsession with the Jewish obvious: . For over 50 years, 82% of the UN General Assembly emergency meetings have been about condemning one state - Israel. Hitler could not have been made happier.

Given all the good Israel does in the world, given its democracy and its striving to follow the highest standards of human rights, even in the face of the most brutal, the most fanatic enemies, the Durban Conference is an outrage. All decent people know that.

But friends, I come here today to make a different case. I come with what you might at first think is a radical proposition: I come to tell you that there are peoples who suffer from the UN's anti-Israelism even more than the Israelis. I belong to one of those people.

http://www.hudson-ny.org/2518/united-nations-slavery

[azurnoir]

5. second thread same article from the same source

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=124x369030

did you not realize this? seems strange as you commented on the first thread

[Donald Ian Rankin]

6. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

I entirely agree that the UN does far too little to oppose human rights abuses in most places, so in that sense Israel is arguably subjected to a double standard. But it's everywhere else the UN gets it wrong, not there.

And it's hard to see how any institution created to fulfil the UN's primary function - that of a meeting place between all nations - could be very much better, given how few nations care much about human rights. If you want a multinational organisation dedicated to promoting human rights, a great many nations - certainly including Israel - will need to be excluded or limited to observer status, and at that point you don't have a UN, you have something like NATO or John McCain's mooted "league of democracies". That's not necessarily a bad idea, but it couldn't take the place of the UN.

[shira]

7. Wow. What an inversion of reality.

The UN appointed a horrendous antisemite (and 911 truther) in Richard Falk to be special human rights rapporteur to focus primarily on Israel. He's still there despite the USA repeatedly calling for his dismissal.

In addition, the UN does nothing about Hamas and the PLO who treat their own people with utter contempt (eg. lack of refugee rights within the territories where they rule, use of children as human shields, combatants, and suicide bombers, lack of rights for women, minorities, gays, etc..). The very people whose rights you and they (the UN) purport to care about. The UN is historically terrible when it comes to standing up for Palestinian rights. In fact, by ignoring, denying, and downplaying what their own leadership (as well as the rest of the Arab world) does to them, it's quite clear the UN loathes Palestinians just as much as mideast Arab leadership does - and is quite content sacrificing as many Palestinians as it takes to 'get' Israel. (That actually goes for all the anti-Israel crowd too, not exclusively the UN. They too loathe Palestinians and want and need Palestinians to suffer so that it makes Israel look bad). The evidence for this is overwhelming.

It's comical you think the UN has it right on Israel (wrong everywhere else except for Israel).

:eyes:

[vminfla]

8. The UN has demonstrated that it is a danger to peace

Name 5 accomplishments since its inception that resulted in peace? For each one you can name, there is probably one Rwanda where their presence resulted in greater loss of life.