The United Nations Human Rights Council appointed professor William Schabas, a Canadian expert in international law, to lead an investigation to see if Israel committed war crimes during Operation Protective Edge. Israeli leaders view professor Schabas as “hopelessly biased against Israel” and do not wish to take part in the investigation. When asked by an Israeli reporter if Hamas is a terrorist organization, he replied that it would be “inappropriate…to answer a question like that” without convening with the others on the panel. He said this after declaring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “perfect” to bring to international court for his part in the 2008 Operation Cast Lead (in which Ehud Olmert, not Netanyahu, served as prime minister).
The United Nations Human Rights Council consists of 47 countries, of which Freedom House rates only 22 as “free”. This means that the majority of countries on the human rights council violate the human rights of their own citizens. To put this into perspective, Saudi Arabia, China, and Cuba, routine human rights abusers, possess the ability to help decide whether Israel, a free nation and according to Freedom House, committed human rights violations.
When confronted with the issue of Israel and war crimes, remember who investigates alleged war crimes. The organization investigating Israel for war crimes is the same organization that condemned Israel and the United States for not giving the Iron Dome to Gaza and fails to call attention to ISIS’ genocidal acts of aggression or any of the countless acts of human rights violations around the world. The United Nations is comprised of every single country on earth and not very many of those countries share the freedoms and liberties enjoyed in the West. Yet all countries take part in this organization. Israel is not perfect and Israelis, like all human beings, make mistakes. But investigating democratic Israel for war crimes while ignoring the countless human rights violations around the world is preposterous and constitutes a double standard. A double standard that is fundamentally anti-Semitic.
For more information, check out-
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/1/un-condemns-israel-us-not-sharing-iron-dome-hamas/
http://freedomhouse.org/report-types/freedom-world#.U-3NwEhRHYu
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/Pages/CurrentMembers.aspx
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