JERUSALEM — The U.N.’s controversial Fee of Inquiry (COI) tasked with investigating Hamas’ crimes of rape and sexual abuse of Israelis has been deemed an “antisemitic” group by the Jewish State’s ambassador to the U.N. that’s incapable of conducting a good probe.
“The antisemitic Fee of Inquiry, established by the morally distorted Human Rights Council, which just lately appointed Iran as chair of the council’s Social Discussion board, is biased in opposition to Israel in each approach,” Israel’s Ambassador Gilad Erdan informed Fox Information Digital.
“Therefore, Israel has zero trust in its findings and its illegitimate activities. Its ‘investigation’ into the terror organization’s sexual crimes against Israeli women on Oct. 7 is akin to Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas in Gaza, investigating its crimes.”
Erdan is a fierce critic of the U.N.’s longstanding alleged bias in opposition to the Jewish state.
Israel’s United Nations Ambassador Gilad Erdan addresses the United Nations over its Fee of Inquiry into Israel. (Israeli Mission to the UN)
“The commissioners’ pre-existing prejudice against Israel is abundantly clear,” he added. “They have denied Israel’s right to be a member of the U.N., they have undermined the accepted working definition of antisemitism, and they support the boycott of Israel.”
Anne Bayefsky, director of the New York-based Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, informed Fox Information Digital, “There is no possibility whatsoever that the COI will investigate anything about Israel in a fair manner. This isn’t speculation, it’s fact.”
The origin of the COI is grounded in a 2021 resolution from the controversial U.N. Human Rights Council, which has additionally been embroiled in scandal over its alleged bias in opposition to Israel.
A bloodied handprint stains a wall in a home in Nir Oz after Hamas terrorists attacked this kibbutz close to the border of Gaza. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Photographs)
The Human Rights Council established “an ongoing, independent, international commission of inquiry to investigate, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel, all alleged violations of international humanitarian law and abuses of international human rights law leading up and since 13 April 2021.”
Bayefsky, additionally president of Human Rights Voices, has written extensively in regards to the COI, and he or she took the chairwoman of the COI, Navi Pillay, and her fellow committee members to process for stoking antisemitism.
The United Nations headquarters and flag juxtaposed with an image of an Israeli girl kidnapped by Hamas terrorists. (Getty Photographs/Hamas-Telegram)
“The three individuals on this so-called ‘inquiry,’ starting with Pillay herself, are utterly biased,” Bayefsky mentioned. “That is exactly why they have been chosen within the first place. Their private data exhibit rank antisemitism.
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“They’re operating an antisemitic inquisition, not an investigation. And the one motive they’ve a sudden curiosity within the horrifying actuality of Palestinian Arab rape of Jewish ladies and women is as a result of their fake authorized charade is susceptible to even better delegitimization.”
Destroyed cars and personal effects are still left scattered around the Supernova music festival site, where hundreds were killed and dozens taken by Hamas terrorists near the border with Gaza Oct. 13, 2023, in Kibbutz Re’im. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)
Fox News Digital reported in July 2022 on Miloon Kothari, a member of the COI who told an obscure anti-Israel blog, “We’re very disheartened by the social media that’s managed largely by — whether or not it’s the Jewish Foyer or it’s the particular NGOs. Some huge cash is being thrown into making an attempt to discredit us.”
Kothari’s alleged anti-Jewish rant sparked outrage at the time, including calls for the Biden administration to apply pressure to disband the COI.
Terrorists drive to the Gaza Strip with the body of Shani Louk, a German-Israeli dual citizen 7, 2023 (AP Photo/Ali Mahmud)
When asked if the COI is infected with antisemitism and unfit to conduct an inquiry into Hamas’ sexual assaults on Israel, Stéphane Dujarric, the spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, defended the COI.
“The Secretary-general will not be concerned within the work of our bodies that report back to the Human Rights Council,” Dujarric said. “He additionally has no authority of the appointment of its members. That being mentioned, he has no motive to doubt the impartiality and professionalism of Navi Pillay and her colleagues.”
Navi Pillay is the controversial chair of the International Commission of Inquiry to investigate the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. (Reuters/Ruben Sprich)
Numerous Fox News Digital press queries to the Human Rights Council were not answered. When questioned if the secretary-general believes Hamas is a terrorist organization, Dujarric said, “The U.N. has constantly condemned the horrific actions taken by Hamas. The secretary-general strongly condemned the Hamas assaults on (Oct. 7) inside hours of their incidence and did the identical regarding sexual assaults as extra proof got here in about them.
“In the U.N. system, designations of terrorist bodies are to be made by the relevant member state bodies, namely the Security Council and the General Assembly. They do not fall within the secretary-general’s authority.”
Whereas the EU and U.S. and plenty of extra international locations have designated Hamas a international terrorist group, the U.N. has not categorized Hamas a terrorist entity.
U.N. Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres speaks throughout a United Nations Safety Council assembly on Gaza at U.N. headquarters in New York Metropolis Dec. 8, 2023. (Yuki Iwamura/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
Requested in regards to the antisemitism allegations in opposition to the COI and its members, Guterres’ spokesman mentioned his “statements and actions, as secretary-general and his previous roles at the national level, clearly demonstrate his life-long fight against antisemitism.”
In late October, Israel’s ambassador, Erdan, urged Guterres to resign after he allegedly blamed the Jewish victims of the Hamas bloodbath Oct. 7, wherein 1,200 individuals have been murdered, together with over 30 Americans.
Underneath rising strain and criticism for silence over Hamas’ sexual atrocities, Pramila Patten, the U.N.’s particular consultant of the secretary-general on sexual violence in battle, mentioned in a press release she was “gravely concerned about emerging reports of sexual violence against both women and men while they were held in Hamas captivity.
“Particular Consultant Patten expresses concern for these civilians nonetheless held hostage by Hamas and calls for his or her fast, secure and unconditional launch,” her statement added.
Demonstrators in support of Israel gather to denounce antisemitism and call for the release of Israeli hostages on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Nov. 14, 2023. (Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
According to her statement, Patten calls for “sturdy and impartial investigations into all allegations of sexual violence in reference to the present battle. On this respect, she urges the State of Israel to grant entry to United Nations entities with an investigative mandate, which have promptly signaled their availability and willingness to look at the scope and extent of those crimes, together with allegations of sexual violence in opposition to Palestinians.”
Bayefsky additionally famous that Jordanian nationwide Reem Alsalem, U.N. particular rapporteur on violence in opposition to ladies and women, “went silent for two months” and she “has refused to denounce Hamas’ sexual violence in opposition to Jewish ladies and women.”
Alsalem issued a statement Nov. 20 on the U.N. website but did not explicitly condemn Hamas for carrying out rapes and sexual assaults against Israeli women and girls. The bulk of Alsalem’s press release was devoted to blaming Israel for alleged violence against Palestinian women. Fox News Digital sent press queries to Alsalem.
The Human Rights Council special session on the human rights situation in Ukraine at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, May 12, 2022. (Reuters/Denis Balibouse)
“Israel is a democracy ruled by the rule of regulation,” Bayefsky said. “It is aware of the right way to conduct an inquiry of felony acts perpetrated in opposition to its residents on its soil. The query for the remainder of the world is, do you actually give a rattling about making certain Palestinian terrorists are held accountable?”
Israeli women are outraged over the conduct of U.N. bodies toward Hamas’ rape and sexual assault campaign targeting Jewish women and girls.
“The U.N. continues to inform the world loud and clear that ‘believe all women’ doesn’t apply to Jewish or Israeli ladies,” Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, deputy mayor of Jerusalem, informed Fox Information Digital.
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“I might argue that the appointment of the members of this COI, given their historical past of antisemitic feedback, may quantity to a menace to re-traumatize still-living victims and the households of those that have been murdered. For the U.N. to relegate this matter to their untrustworthy fingers is akin to a farmer asking an area fox to take care of its chickens.”
The U.S. State Division didn’t instantly reply a Fox Information Digital press question.
