![]() If we were making 50 seamiles a day, i told them we did 30. (Well i had to lie at my crew all the time. taxpayer dollars are not being spent on an anti-Semitic agenda.After all the talk about good ol' games i somehow got beamed into the mood of playing and posting about one of those ancient gems which, by coincidence, is my most favorite game of all times: Sid Meier's ColonizationĬall me Maximilianus Randowe of the English now, who, after a long and adventurous journey arrived in the shallow waters of a new world. The resolution demands the UNHRC stop singling out Israel and enact a series of reforms to ensure that U.S. "My view is it is so off base that we should make every effort to reform it or withdraw" from the organization, Wilson told the Free Beacon. efforts to expand laws preventing boycotts of Israel. The latest congressional measure "condemns the United Nations Human Rights Council's actions as wasteful and abusive," according to a copy of the resolution, which also backs U.S. "Putting it in context with the lack of attention to nations such as North Korea, where you have more starvation and torture and the ultimate totalitarian regime, where you have in Cuba a lack of freedoms and the abuses of human rights and dignity, and sadly this particular council has focused I believe in a very anti-Semitic and anti-Israel way of focusing condemnations on the democracy of Israel," Wilson said.Ĭurrent UNHRC members include countries such as Rwanda, Qatar, Afghanistan, and Iraq, among many others where human rights abuses take place daily. "Obviously, this report alone should have been reason enough to resign from the Council, and withdraw financial support from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights that produced it, effective immediately." ![]() companies with whom they can do business, and more specifically to direct them to boycott Israel, is scandalous," Bayefsky told the Free Beacon. taxpayer-with congressional backing-paid for the production of a U.N. efforts to blacklist American companies doing business with Israel is reason enough to withdraw from the organization. companies that do business with Israel and to push them into cutting ties, an effort that fits in with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS), a global campaign to wage economic war on Israel.Īnne Bayefsky, a human rights scholar and head of the Touro College Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, said the U.N. The UNHRC most currently took up an effort to target U.S. "It has targeted Israel more than any other country."īy continuing to be a member of the UNHRC, the United States is "giving complicity to the outrageous conduct," Wilson said. "The American people need to know this particular council has incredibly condemned Israel 78 times and North Korea nine times, and has never condemned the authoritarian conduct of China or Russia," Wilson told the Washington Free Beacon. While the organization is tasked with promoting human rights across the globe, it has issued a record 78 condemnations of Israel in past years, while ignoring abuses by countries such as Iran, China, and Russia. The organization has long faced accusations of anti-Israel bias for having what many describe as an obsessive focus on the Jewish state. ![]() The UNHRC was created in 2006, but the United States did not join the organization until 2009, when former President Barack Obama came into office. ![]() The effort comes amid a push by not just the UNHRC but also a number of other U.N.-affiliated bodies to target Israel for criticism and promote boycotts of the Jewish state, an effort that many describe as anti-Semitic in nature. Joe Wilson (R., S.C.), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is spearheading the resolution, which puts the UNHRC on notice that its targeting of Israel could lead the United States to remove itself from the body and to consider cutting off some $23 million in funding. Human Rights Council, or UNHRC, for what many allege is its virulently anti-Israel bias and urges the body to enact massive reforms or face a cut off of millions of U.S. A new congressional resolution gathering support among lawmakers calls out the U.N. ![]()
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