NEW YORK (Press Release) Stephen M. Greenberg, Chairman and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (COP) on Friday condemned the resolution adopted by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHCR) which calls for an international commission of inquiry to investigate Israel’s response to the weeks long violent siege of its border led by Hamas in Gaza.
Greenberg and Hoenlein said, “We strongly reject the latest anti-Israel resolution adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council.
In its unceasing quest to vilify Israel, the Council’s politically motivated and inherently hostile agenda against Israel has once again driven it to new depths of hypocrisy and bias resulting in indifference to the lethal exploitation of the people of Gaza by Hamas.
The resolution adopted Friday by the automatic anti-Israel majority on the Human Rights Council disregards the despicable inhumane tactics of Hamas that incites their own people to violence, deliberately places them in harm’s way and exploits their deaths and injuries. And worse, the Council’s action willfully ignores the brazen public statements of Hamas leaders boasting of using thousands of rioting Palestinians storming the border fence to camouflage the armed terror operatives seeking to breach the sovereign borders of Israel and carry out attacks against Israeli civilians. Hamas officials acknowledge that the overwhelming majority of those killed were Hamas operatives.
Friday’s resolution brings shame on the Human Rights Council.”
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