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I am pointing out a blatant double-standard. The fact that HRC is not condemning egregious mass violators like China, Russia, and Syria, and focuses all its attention on Israel, shows they are not honestly trying to enforce any standard in good faith, they're just trying to attack Israel. That, together with the well-documented participation of Neo Nazi and other openly Antisemitic groups in movements that criticize Israel, shows that criticizing Israel is often linked to biased prejudice against Israel and Jews.

Either way, your subjective disagreement with my post is not cause for flagging, which is supposed to be reserved to objectionable content that violates basic rules against SPAM etc. Users are supposed to downvote posts they simply disagree with, not flag them. Nothing in my posts violates any rules, and their flagging is a clear example of abuse.



The HRC does condem those, you're just trying to cherry pick a naive statistic as some sort of slam dunk proof while deflecting from the banal reason that Israel gets criticized a lot because it keeps doing terrible things. It's possible to have informed views on this stuff without the jingoistic nonsense.


From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_resolut...

> The following is a list of United Nations resolutions concerning Israel. As of 2013, Israel had been condemned in 45 resolutions by the United Nations Human Rights Council. Since the creation of the Council in 2006, it has resolved almost more resolutions condemning Israel than on the rest of the world combined. The 45 resolutions comprised almost half (45.9%) of all country-specific resolutions passed by the Council, not counting those under Agenda Item 10 (countries requiring technical assistance).

Are you seriously claiming that Israel has committed about the same amount of atrocities as the rest of the world combined?

Just one example from one country that is not Israel: an estimated 500k civilians have been killed as direct result of the Syrian regimes' atrocities over the past decade alone:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war

How many Palestinian in total, including combatants, died in decades of conflicts with Israel?

Fewer than 10k according to the highest estimates.

You are welcome to keep believing that this is all fine, and there's no bias or Antisemitism here. This is certainly the convenient and politically expedient belief to hold.


No, again, it's possible to simultaneously condemn both Israel and China. Mentioning China by comparison is not a meaningful response to criticism specific to Israel. Counting the number of UN resolutions to claim it's a measure of the proportion of antisemitism is preposterous nonsense. Yes antisemitism exists in the world, but it is not the driving force behind UN policy nor is that a valid approach to measuring bias.

You know you have no substantive response to the criticisms of Israel. The "actually your criticism of a government is antisemitism" deflection is not convincing to those of us who no longer want our tax dollars supporting the actions of a defacto apartheid state.


Just a quick glance at un statistics will show that they have serious issues with Israel.




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