The UN Human Rights Council Makes a Mockery of Human Rights
When selling bread and underwear becomes a crime.
February 26, 2020
The UN Human Rights Council Makes a Mockery of Human Rights
When selling bread and underwear becomes a crime.
Earlier this month, the UN Human Rights Office issued a list of businesses “involved in certain activities relating to [Jewish] settlements” in the West Bank, the Golan Heights, and parts of Jerusalem. Setting aside the office’s dubious assumption that international law forbids Jews from living in the areas in question, and also setting aside its obsessive fixation on Israel, Evelyn Gordon examines the sheer absurdity of the suggestion that the companies on the list somehow violate anyone’s human rights:
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