Last month, the United Nations (UN) published their “Action Plan to improve monitoring and reactions to anti -Semitism,” partly in response to “”an increase in anti -Semitic incidents targeting Jews and Jewish institutions in Europe, the United States and elsewhere.
Anne Bayefsky, Director of the Human Rights Institute and Holocaust and President of Human Rights Votes, told Fox News Digital that the action plan was a “false exercise in futility”, which “produced what she claimed to be the leading global supplier of anti -Semitism … pretend to do something in the fight against anti -Semitism. ”
Developed by UN Alliance of Civilization (UnaoC), UN Action Plan He emphasizes that “the ability to understand and recognize anti -Semitism is crucial to global efforts in the fight against hatred and prejudice.” Despite the critical nature of understanding of anti -Semitism, the plan does not completely define what anti -Semitism is.
The action plan mentions, but does not adopt the International Covenant for the memory of the Holocaust, the definition of anti -Semitism, which 45 Member States approved and for which Bayefsky said that “huge highway the main Jewish organizations and institutions are accepted around the world,” because “recognizes the connection” Zionism and Israel. ”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, September 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
“The UN Champion of the idea of defining hatred and intolerance victims of their own experience of discrimination, isolation and violence – except when it comes to Jews,” she said.
Fox News Digital, Director UNAOC, Nihal Saad asked why the action plan does not define anti -Semitism and whether the lack of this definition will interfere with the efforts to recognize and reduce anti-Jewish prejudice.
Saad said that “the action plan underlines the importance of understanding anti -Semitism, not focusing on the definition of anti -Semitism and entering into discussion about what it turned out to be distracted from the actual goal, which increases our answers to anti -Semitism.”
Referring other questions in which there is no consensus on the “definition of the topic”, Saad explained that the lack of “final agreement among Member States on the definition of terrorism” did not interfere with the development of a global strategy for the fight against terrorism of the United Nations, which Saad called “a unique global instrument for Improving national, regional and international efforts to suppress terrorism. “
Edmund Fitton-Brown, Senior Advisor to CONTRICT OF ELSE and former UN control coordinator, told Fox News Digital that “CT CT[counterterrorism] The strategy is a mess. ”
Secretary General Antonio Guterres makes a statement at the UN headquarters about the situation in the Middle East after the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/Lightrocket via Getty Images)
Although he said that some of the UN efforts were effective to oppose terrorism, he said that given the lack of agreement on what terrorism represents, the UN is especially struggling with the identification of groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis as a terrorist. “If something really dramatic happens, the group will often find that it is accused of being a terrorist group,” Fitton-Brown said, noting that the UN condemned Houthhis after their 2022. The attack at the Abu Dabi Airport but they failed to designate them as a terrorist group. “On Hezbollahu UN was hopelessly weak,” he explained.
He said that Hamas “is a good example where the absence of definition is problematic because you get something like a 10/7 attack … and the UN has completely failed in its response, which is partly due to its failure in judging that the group that accepts it Terrorist Tactic Terrorist group. ”
Bayefsky said that the UN Security Council “never condemned Hamas for October 7th, because they cannot agree in what is considered terrorism. This is not a success story. It is a malicious delicacy of duty.”
View of the United Nations headquarters in New York on July 16, 2024. (Jakub Porzycki/Nurphoto via Getty Images)
No plan for self-administration
Among the proposals of the action plan are the implementation of the training module to help the staff “recognize and understand anti -Semitism”, and the request that senior UN officials “continue to deny anti -Semitic manifestations as well as when they occur.”
Bayefsky has questioned the implementation of these plans. “The UN says that it is dedicated to the UN -Ao -Antisemithism staff education without knowing what is considered anti -Semitism. Any actual educator gives that plan” F “, she explained.
UN’s special reporter in Palestinian territory Francesca Albanese attends the Maghgreb-Mashreq Social Forum in Tunisia on May 11, 2024. (Mohamed Mdalla/Anadolo via Getty Images)
From the highest levels, Bayefsky claimed that the world body is not currently against anti-Jewish prejudice. Although UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the world about the International Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust that “we have to condemn anti-Semitism wherever and whenever it appears,” Bayefsky said that “if it is when they are within the UN, [Guterres is] Not just sitting, he goes off. ”
“Take cases UN Special Reporter Francesca Albanese And the UN’s Navi Pillay investigation commission, both widely convicted of terrible anti-Semitic behavior, “Bayefsky claimed.” The Secretary General claims that their “independence” leaves him powerless. Nothing prevents him from using his platform to speak properly and wrong. He is silent by the choice. “
Fox News Digital asked Saad if the action plan would enable the UN to make critical comments when special reporters give anti -Semitic remarks on behalf of the institution. “The owners of the special procedure mandate/special reporters are independent human rights experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council,” Saad replied. “They act in individual abilities and perform their functions in accordance with their mandate, through a professional, impartial assessment of facts based on internationally recognized human rights standards. Attitudes expressed by special procedures, the owners of the mandate are left of the mandate owner and may not represent positions [by] The wider system of the United Nations. “
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Fox News Digital asked Farhana Haqa, Guterres spokesman, whether he would allow him an action plan to comment on anti -Semitism arising from the UN, including from his special reporters. “The Secretary -General has no authority over independent experts who report the Human Rights Council and he does not comment on their activities or remarks,” Haq said. “But the UNAOC plan is designed to educate the UN -Ao anti -Semitism staff.”
Bayefsky said the UN “cannot fight anti -Semitism without recognizing its guilt and starting with” Mea Culpa “.
Neither Navi Pillay nor Francesca Albanese answered the digital questions of Fox News relating to accusations of anti -Semitism that were equated against them.
