Israel claims UN committee anti-Semitic

 Fox News:

The U.N.’s controversial Commission 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 is incapable of conducting a fair probe.

"The antisemitic Commission of Inquiry, established by the morally distorted Human Rights Council, which recently appointed Iran as chair of the council’s Social Forum, is biased against Israel in every way," Israel’s Ambassador Gilad Erdan told Fox News 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 against the Jewish state.

UNITED NATIONS SLAMMED FOR SILENCE OVER HAMAS RAPES, MUTILATION AND MURDER OF ISRAELI WOMEN, CRITICS SAY

"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, told Fox News 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."
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Asked about the antisemitism allegations against the COI and its members, Guterres’ spokesman said 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 massacre Oct. 7, in which 1,200 people were murdered, including over 30 American citizens.

Under growing pressure and criticism for silence over Hamas' sexual atrocities, Pramila Patten, the U.N.’s special representative of the secretary-general on sexual violence in conflict, said in a statement she was "gravely concerned about emerging reports of sexual violence against both women and men while they were held in Hamas captivity.
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Bayefsky also noted that Jordanian national Reem Alsalem, U.N. special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, "went silent for two months" and she "has refused to denounce Hamas' sexual violence against Jewish women and girls."

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.
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"The U.N. continues to tell the world loud and clear that ‘believe all women’ does not apply to Jewish or Israeli women," Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, deputy mayor of Jerusalem, told Fox News Digital.

"I would argue that the appointment of the members of this COI, given their history of antisemitic comments, could amount to a threat to re-traumatize still-living victims and the families of those who were murdered. For the U.N. to relegate this topic to their untrustworthy hands is akin to a farmer asking a local fox to look after its chickens."
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Israelis clearly do not have much faith in the UN body's ability to deal with Hamas atrocities.  It should not be that hard for the UN body to condemn what Hamas did.  What was done were obvious war crimes of not only sexual assaults but murders of non-combatants.

See also:

Blinken: Sexual violence Hamas committed on Oct. 7 ‘beyond anything that I’ve seen’

And:

 Ex-Hamas minister in interrogation video: ‘Crazy people’ led by Sinwar ‘destroyed Gaza’

And:

 Footage shows numerous Gaza terror suspects who apparently surrendered to IDF troops

IDF spokesperson says Israel questioning individuals suspected of ties to terror groups amid ground operations

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