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The UN and Anti-semitism
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BobW
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More accurately, the UN was just a follow-on of the League of Nations.
How is it bad news that the UN's General Assembly never adopted a resolution on "antisemitism"? How is it good news for the UN to agree there was a Holocoast? This establishes the precedent that the UN can make pronouncements determining otherwise recognized events. It will then be easy for the UN to declare Rwanda's ultimate cause was not enough western funding to prevent the massacre.
Once antisemitism becomes a topic in the UN, it will be eclipsed with additional competing forms of hatred. Antisemitism will be thrown in the pool along with India's untouchable class, hatred against witches and wizards, universal hatred against investment bankers, et cetera.
I believe Edgar Bronfman is pushing this. It does not help Jews.
Kol tuv,
BobW
Posted by: BobW on September 12, 2005 02:46 AM
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Ted Belman
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No good will come from the UN so far as Jews are concerned.
Posted by: Ted Belman on September 12, 2005 05:23 AM
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Amy
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Your link to Eye on the U.N. doesn't work. Here's the right one: http://www.eyeontheun.org/default.asp
Posted by: Amy on September 12, 2005 10:29 AM
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Jeffrey Levine
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Expecting anything of value for the Jewish people, from the United Nations is, in its essence, foolish. The UN is not a democracy that ensures that the minority is not abused. Control of the UN has become the birth-right of the Islamic and third-world nations. As we all know the Jews are the universal scapegoat. As a Jew, I put as much value in the UN to protect Jews as I would put my faith in Hitler in WWII!
Posted by: Jeffrey Levine on September 12, 2005 03:33 PM
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Joseph Alexander Norland
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A very long time ago, I came to the conclusion that (paraphrasing Cato) "UN delenda est" - the UN must be destroyed. I came to that conclusion after examining a wide range of UN activities - all except the vote of 29 Nov 1947 either outright anti-Israel or useless. See a list of articles at
Posted by: Joseph Alexander Norland on September 12, 2005 06:18 PM
The UN and Anti-semitism
Anne Bayefsky
(NOTE: Anne Bayefsky has started a new blog Eye on the UN )
The UN will consider a first-ever resolution on the Holocaust at the upcoming fall session of the General Assembly. The UN, and its primordial human rights instrument the1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, rose from the ashes of the Holocaust.
Nevertheless, the General Assembly has never adopted a single resolution dedicated to "anti-semitism" in its history.
The good news: if this resolution is adopted the UN will have agreed that there was a Holocaust (the draft reads: "Rejects any denial of the Holocaust as an historical event, either in full or in part;").
The bad news: European support was only obtained after deleting any reference to "anti-semitism".
The Europeans insisted on dropping the reference to anti-semitism in the draft resolution on the grounds that Arab and Islamic states would object.
Suggested reference to "Israel" - the state whose very existence is inextricably connected with the survival and well-being of the remnants of the Jewish people who survived the Holocaust - was a non-starter.
The justifications range from: European support is crucial to any chance of adoption of the resolution, a U.S.-sponsored resolution including "anti-semitism" without European support would be doomed to failure, and failure to adopt some such resolution would be a serious blow for the actual protection of human rights.
...a classic example of how the UN divides democracies, distorts and diminishes American values, inflates the role of the European Union on the world stage regardless of principle, develops minimum common denominators or "consensus" by factoring in the demands of racists and despots, and passes off verbiage for real progress on serious violations of human rights.
Posted by Ted Belman at September 12, 2005 03:59 AM