WASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release) — B’nai B’rith President Robert Spitzer and CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin have issued the following statement:
B’nai B’rith denounces the U.N.’s anti-Israel “Commission of Inquiry” (COI) for once again outrageously accusing Israel of “genocide” in an unofficial “conference paper” on children in Gaza.
This finding is not a legal or factual one, but a political assault perpetrated by an “investigative mechanism” intended to craft false narratives vilifying Israelis in perpetuity.
The COI—as always—has minimized or completely ignored Hamas’s and other Palestinian terrorist groups’ responsibility for endangering Palestinian children by, among other systematic tactics, deliberately operating from civilian areas (including schools, hospitals and even U.N. facilities) and recruiting minors into combat.
Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, atrocities and its kidnapping, maiming and murder of Israeli children are glossed over, with the “commission” pointing readers to earlier reports that inadequately treated these harrowing realities.
The COI, in its latest polemic, has not even bothered to give “recommendations” to Hamas, the rulers of Gaza for most of the past two decades, on protecting children—Palestinian and Israeli. Israel, by contrast, has been presented with a long list of demands. The report also requests that the International Criminal Court bring forward yet more warrants against Israeli officials on additional unfounded charges the ICC has no jurisdiction to adjudicate. Other countries, moreover, are urged to impose sanctions and arms embargoes on Israel alone.
The latest COI report again underscores the inherent, gross bias in the way U.N. special procedures “investigate” Israel—rejecting any factual Israeli assertions as unverified, showing little interest in anything Israel proves about Palestinian offenses, trusting anti-Israel sources without question, and spending vast amounts of money pushing out a continuous stream of libels against one country alone—the democratic Jewish state.
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Preceding provided by B’nai B’rith International