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December 22, 2021

The United Nations Launches Its Newest, and Most Expensive, Anti-Israel Initiative

An ongoing, open-ended inquiry whose goal is waging lawfare on the Jewish state.

In May, the UN Human Rights Council held a special session to discuss its favorite topic: the imagined crimes of the Jewish state. The session concluded by passing a typical resolution condemning Israel for war crimes, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and so forth, while making no mention whatsoever of Hamas or the missile war it had recently launched. But it also created an “ongoing independent, international commission of inquiry”—naturally to be led by anti-Israel activists—to look into the matter. Anne Bayefsky explains what makes this anti-Israel UN resolution different from so many others:

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