Stop Anti-Semitic, Anti-Israel Bias at the UN

The United Nations continues to demonize Israel, dismiss outrageous human rights abuses by Arab leaders, and enable anti-Semites. It's not new. But when this bias is allowed to go unchecked and unopposed at an institution as prestigious and powerful as the United Nations, it sends a chilling message to governments around the world that the vilification of Jews is acceptable.

Seventy years after the U.N. was born from the ashes of the Holocaust to ensure repressive regimes could never again threaten humanity, many of the world's worst human rights abusers—Iran, Qatar, Sierra Leone and Congo—have overrun what was created as a body for promoting peace.

Just think about how absurd it is that when the U.N.'s Commission on the Status of Women issued their most recent findings, they made no mention of women in Iran who are stoned to death for alleged infidelity or girls in the Sudan who are routinely mutilated. What's more absurd: They singled out just one nation... Israel.

And it should come as no surprise that in the 2014-15 session of the General Assembly, there were about 20 resolutions adopted that were critical of Israel. Meanwhile Iran, Syria and North Korea received just one negative resolution each. What's worse: Iran actually sits on the UN committee responsible for disarmament at the same time they pursue their nuclear ambitions and make statements calling for the annihilation of Israel!

This jeopardizes the rights, safety and security of Jews everywhere. Action is required.
To UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon:

During this year in which we mark the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII, the liberation of Auschwitz and other extermination camps where 6 million Jews were murdered, and the birth of the United Nations itself, it is critical the United Nations remember the reason for its own existence and adhere to its own human rights principles. This means strongly condemning the hypocrisy of those member states, especially those on the U.N. Human Rights Council, who blatantly disregard human rights in their own countries.

The membership and working groups of the U.N. Human Rights Council have included some of the world's worst human rights abusers—Iran, Qatar, Sierra Leone and Congo - where freedom of speech is non-existent. Israel was also shamelessly singled out in the annual Commission on the Status of Woman, while countries that mutilate women, like Sudan, and those that stone women, like Iran, went ignored. It is unreasonable and unfair that in 2014 and 2015, 20 resolutions condemning Israel were adopted by the General Assembly, while Iran, Syria, and North Korea received just one condemnation each. It is deplorable that nearly 50% of resolutions passed by the U.N. Human Rights Council are directed at Israel.

I implore you to use the power of your position to actively rectify this hypocrisy.

Signed,

[Your name]
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