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Resources updated between Monday, November 24, 2008 and Sunday, November 30, 2008
November 28, 2008
November 27, 2008
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Anne Bayefsky
Durban II Alert
European Union Capitulates to Islamic States on Durban II as
UN General Assembly Committee Renews Support for the Conference
and Calls for Additional Funding
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The American Jewish Committee and the Conference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish Organizations Refuse to Demand a U.S. Boycott;
Israel's Plea for Immediate Boycott Support Ignored
Anne Bayefsky
Watch the UN General Assembly President
and the only NGO representative selected by the UN to speak
declare Israel guilty of apartheid
and mount a call for boycotts, sanctions and divestment
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Freedom From Speech Article
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Anne Bayefsky
NEW YORK - The President of the UN General Assembly has launched an unprecedented attack on a UN member state from the Assembly podium. Going beyond even existing UN resolutions, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann of Nicaragua accused Israel of apartheid and called for "a campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions" against it. Reminiscent of a classic antisemitic slur, Brockmann (himself a Roman Catholic priest and one-time official of the World Council of Churches) also claimed our Palestinian "brothers and sisters are being crucified" by Israel.
His remarks were made on November 24, 2008 during the UN Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. This annual event marks the adoption of the General Assembly's partition resolution which called for the creation of a Jewish and an Arab state on November 29, 1947.
"Brockmann's assault is a gross abuse of the position of Assembly President," commented Anne Bayefsky, Editor of EYEontheUN. "He knows full well that his outrageous personal views will be translated into six languages and webcast around the world." Brockmann assumed the Presidency in September 2008, having been nominated by the Latin American and Caribbean regional group.
Brockmann made the apartheid allegation twice in one day, once in the morning at the annual meeting of the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, and again in the General Assembly in the afternoon. In his words:
United Nations Trusteeship Council Chamber, New York, November 24, 2008
The Palestinian flag is on the left, the United Nations flag on the right. Speakers from left to right who voiced no difficulty with the omission of the flag of Israel:Draft resolution adopted without a vote
Vote on Draft resolution: 117 in favor - 5 against - 55 abstentions
Draft Resolution on the Report of the Human Rights Council Development
Vote on Draft resolution: 130 in favor - 11 against - 35 abstentions
November 24, 2008
Vote on Revised draft resolution: 121 in favor - 0 against - 57 abstentions
Revised draft resolution on the Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Development
Vote on Amendment paragraph 1 c): 59 in favor - 77 against - 25 abstentions
Amendment to draft resolution A/C.3/63/L.35/Rev.1 Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Development
Vote on Amendment paragraphs 1 a) and b): 60 in favor - 78 against - 29 abstentions
Amendment to draft resolution A/C.3/63/L.35/Rev.1 Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Development
Vote on Draft Resolution: 85 in favor - 50 against - 42 abstentions
Revised Draft Resolution on Combating defamation of religions Development