Complicity with barbarism

Both the UN and Human Rights Watch have helped bring the west to moral ruin

Human Rights and Alliance of Civilisations room, United Nations, Geneva

The malignant prejudice against Israel of both the United Nations and powerful non-governmental organisations (NGOs) such as Human Rights Watch has long been obvious to all but the most blinkered. 

The Hamas pogrom of October 7 and subsequent war in Gaza have shone a particularly harsh and all-too revealing spotlight on their abhorrent behaviour.

The UN obsessively demonises Israel while giving a free pass to most of the world’s repressive regimes. In the current conflict, however, it has become even more monstrous.

Francesca Albanese, its Special Rapporteur on Palestinian Human Rights who relentlessly targets Israel, had previously written on Facebook: “America is subjugated to the Jewish lobby” and, according to the director of UN Watch Hillel Neuer, told a Hamas conference last year: “You have a right to resist”. 

Following the Hamas pogrom, Albanese claimed:

Israel cannot claim the right of self-defence against a threat that emanates from a territory it occupies, from a territory that is under belligerent occupation.

Subsequently, after the former US State Department official Dennis Ross tweeted:

Why not call on Hamas to release all hostages and agree to have its leaders leave Gaza,

Albanese wrote in two successive responses: 

Regrettably, this sounds like putting the onus to end the carnage in Gaza on the Palestinians, including those being slaughtered in Gaza; justifying and deflecting the attention from the atrocities committed by the Israeli army in Gaza. Unacceptable.

Fellow Europeans, Italians, Germans: after the Holocaust, we should instinctively know that Genocide starts with dehumanising the Other. If Israel’s current attack against Palestinians doesn’t prompt our strong reaction, the darkest page of our recent history has taught us nothing.

Such moral depravity and total absence of compassion would be chilling in anyone. But Albanese is an official of the UN, the global body supposedly devoted to promoting peace and justice. She stands instead for terrorism, savagery and injustice in the region in which she is tasked to report.  

This is no aberration.