On Shavuot, UN Vilifies Israel with Jihad Propaganda
This year, the Jewish feast of Shavuot (June 11-13, 2024) is already less joyous than it should be because of the ongoing conflict in Israel and a wave of anti-Semitism around the world. But the United Nations, as usual, made everything worse by a defamatory document against Israel, based on Palestinian jihadi propaganda.
My Jewish Learning explains, “Shavuot, the feast of weeks, is celebrated seven weeks after the second Passover seder. Although Shavuot began as an ancient grain harvest festival, the holiday has been identified since biblical times with the giving of the Torah [by God to Moses] on Mount Sinai [see Ex. 20].” Shavuot 2024 began at sundown on June 11 and ends sundown of June 13. The UN chose this time, however, for one of its favorite activities—falsely maligning Israel on behalf of jihad-loving Gazans.
As I reported recently on PJ Media, the UN—which has 50 Muslim nations as members versus Israel as the only Jewish nation—had blacklisted Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for allegedly harming children, wrongly accusing Israel of war crimes, while ignoring Palestinians’ egregious abuse of children and the UN’s own complicity in that abuse. Members of the UNRWA agency actively participated in the Oct. 7 atrocities Hamas committed on Israel, during which Israeli children were kidnapped, assaulted, and killed (some burned to death/beheaded). An international human rights lawyer described UNRWA as “terrorism infested.”
Speaking of harming children, UNRWA schools are used by terrorists for jihadi hideouts and weapons stashes. At these schools, Palestinian children are indoctrinated to glorify jihad and to desire participation in Jewish genocide. Meanwhile, Palestinian authorities use kids as human shields and train jihadi child soldiers (watch here). As Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas’s co-founder, has warned deluded Westerners, “In Islam, to kill for Allah is a way of worship.” Yousef also highlighted how Palestinians prioritize their genocidal cause over their own children. He knows from personal experience, since his own father called for his death after Yousef went over to the Israelis and became Christian.
An official Israeli UN account posted June 12:
Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on October 7 during a Jewish High Holiday. Today, on the Jewish High Holiday of Shavuot, the [UN] Pillay Commission of Inquiry [CoI] chooses to publish its latest biased reports, attacking Israel.
This decision is reflective of the systematic anti-Israeli discrimination of this Commission of Inquiry, which was born in sin, in 2021, while Hamas was raining down rockets on Israeli civilians.
The CoI attempts to justify the heinous terrorist attack of October 7 by contextualizing it through the lens of the Palestinian narrative. It makes no mention of decades-long “terrorism”, or the continuous rocket fire across Israeli territory.
The reports disregard the abhorrent use of human shields by Hamas, the deliberate Hamas strategy of placing civilians in the line of fire. Regarding Israel however, the report has no problem placing blame for supposedly not defending its population on October 7.
Moreover, the report outrageously and repugnantly attempts to draw a false equivalence between IDF soldiers and Hamas terrorists with regards to acts of sexual violence.
Israel rejects the abhorrent and immoral accusations leveled against the IDF, both with regards to the military operation in Gaza and its initial response against Hamas terrorists in Israel. Hamas is a lawless terrorist organization. Israel is a democratic country that is committed to the rule of law. The IDF conducts itself in line with international law, including IHL, and has robust and independent mechanisms to monitor and investigate its actions.
Ambassador @MeiravEShahar, Israel’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations: “The CoI has once again proven that its actions are all in the service of a narrow-led political agenda against Israel. Today’s reports confirm what we have repeatedly said: the Pillay Commission will never do justice to the Israeli victims of Palestinian terrorism.”
The UN is nothing but a front group and mouthpiece for terrorists trying to massacre Jews.