UN Watch at Ongoing Human Rights Council Session UN Watch has been busy at the current, third session of the UN Human Rights Council, a body that continues to focus almost exclusively on criticism of Israel. [more]
Urge the UN expert on racism to take action now against hateful, anti-Semitic and anti-Christian textbooks in Egyptian and Saudi schools.
Issue 150 • Nov 15, 2006
UN Emergency Session Slams Israel
On the same day that Palestinian rockets fired from Northern Gaza killed one Israeli civilian and seriously injured two others, the UN Human Rights Council met in special session yesterday to condemn Israel—the only country the body has censured during its five-month existence. The pretext for slamming Israel this time was the tragic deaths of 19 in the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, which resulted from errant Israeli artillery fire as the Jewish state sought to defend itself against the Kassam rocket attacks. [more]
