UN Human Rights Council Condemnations (2006-15)

GENEVA, May 20, 2015 - As Israeli hospitals continue their life-saving treatment for escalating numbers of wounded Syrians fleeing to the Golan from the Assad regime’s barbaric attacks, the U.N. reached new heights of absurdity today by accusing Israel of violating the health rights of Syrians in the Golan.

By a vote of 104 to 4, with 6 abstentions and 65 absent, the Jewish state was the only country in the world to be singled out as a violator of health rights when its alleged victims were spotlighted by the annual assembly of the U.N.’s World Health Organization.

The resolution on the plight of Israel’s alleged victims, which was the 2015 assembly’s only treatment of a specific country situation, sent an unmistakable message when it ordered “health-related technical assistance” for “the Syrian population in the occupied Syrian Golan,” and when it called on the director-general of the World Health Organization to report on “the health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan” at next year’s session.

That's right. Israel with its world class medical care given to everyone, including terrorists in Gaza and Syria - is the only one in the world singled out for a UNHRC condemnation.

You just couldn't make this stuff up

The European left wing - "but...but...but, why doesn't Israel abide by UN resolutions?!?!?!"

Mostly agreed. But you forgot to add the Taliban and Saudi Arabia (I think North Korea has been condemned by the UNHRC in the Kirby report, much to China's chagrin). While Israel has violated the human rights of Palestinians numerous times, it's clear that the disproportionate condemnations of Israel (which can at least claim to be a democracy- rated 1 for political rights and 2 for civil liberties- not bad compared to the likes of Iran, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Qatar etc.) form a propaganda effort by the Arab League nations to weaken Israel's standing in the international community, and hide their own (more frequent) human rights abuses at the same time.

It was a big mistake to add countries which violate human rights, many of which are in the Middle East, to a human rights council ... I wonder, why didn't the EU countries do anything to stop them from joining?

I'm speaking as somebody who leans to the left, by the way.

I believe the terrorists in Syria include members of or sympathetic to Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian affiliate of al-Qaeda. I suspect that Israel treats wounded members of a sworn enemy of the Jews, they hope it would loosen the animosity towards Israel from whoever controls the border with Syria, given that the Assad regime, unlike Egypt, has never signed a treaty with Israel since the Yom Kippur War. A bit like the Good Samaritan.

I took the list from UNWatch, that monitors the farcical shenanigans.

The UNHRC spends around 80% of its time on Israel. During the Darfur genocide, the UNHRC was inundated with resolutions put forward by Arab states (they take it in turns) which suffocated the UNHRC's time.

Aptly demonstrated by this cartoon.



Well, accession to the UNHRC is voted on. There aren't enough European states to oppose the 3rd world despots and regimes.

Additionally, the places at the UNHRC are often 'bought'. i.e Iran will ask certain nations to support their bid in return for cheaper oil etc.

I read an autobiography of the Israeli ambassador to the UN Chaim Herzog when he was in the post during the 70's I believe.

He said that ambassadors from other states would come up to him and apologise for voting against Israel, but they had to for economic reasons etc.

lol Yeah the UNHRC is known almost universally as joke, why is nobody takes notice of it except for Muslims and Guardian-reading idiots who want a stick with which to beat Israel.