UN Watch says:

The new report on Israel by the UN inquiry led by Navi Pillay marks another propaganda win for Iran and its terrorist proxies, said the independent non-governmental organization UN Watch today.

The Pillay Report, was presented on Monday June 13, before the 47-nation Human Rights Council, and offers a blueprint of what is to come from the Pillay Commission, which was granted a perpetual mandate to report annually in Geneva and New York on alleged war crimes and discrimination in wake of last year’s Hamas-Israel war.

“The Pillay Report turns a blind eye to Palestinian terrorism and embraces the Hamas narrative that Israel is the root cause of all conflict. This is exactly what we expected from Navi Pillay, who openly lobbies governments to ‘sanction apartheid Israel‘ and to condemn Israel for the very conflict that she is meant to investigate,” said UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer.

“Her appointment was absurd and a travesty of justice. Appointing Navi Pillay to investigate Israel has all the credibility of appointing Vladimir Putin to investigate Ukraine.”

The Pillay Report concedes (at par. 28) that its findings are “overwhelmingly directed towards Israel.”

“Cynically, the Pillay Commission claims to have ‘ensured the inclusion of a diverse range of perspectives’ yet in reality what they did was meet with Palestinian organizations dedicated to condemning Israel, as well as Israeli organizations dedicated to condemning Israel,” said Neuer.

“This cynicism was taken to new heights when the Pillay Report determined that Israel’s ‘perpetual occupation’ is the ‘underlying root cause’ of the conflict on the basis of their consultations with both ‘Palestinian and Israeli stakeholders.'”

“It is bad enough to determine that Israel alone is to blame for the conflict, while ignoring Palestinian terrorism and their stated goal of destroying Israel. Yet to claim that this is actually a representative view of ‘Israeli stakeholders’ is another thing altogether,” said Neuer.

“The fact is that this inquiry was created by the Palestinians and Pakistan for the sole purpose of targeting Israel, and the UN appointed a chair who is completely disqualified, under the council’s own rules, on account of her recent and longstanding lobbying to boycott and sanction Israel.” (See UN Watch’s motion for Pillay to recuse herself.)

“The U.S. is now a member of the council and so cannot be silent. We call on Secretary Blinken to take action to remove Pillay immediately,” said Neuer.

More than 7500 people have signed a petition urging Blinken to remove Pillay.

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The Israel Institute of NZ says:

A year ago the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution to “urgently establish an ongoing, independent, international commission of inquiry to investigate, in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel, all alleged violations and abuses of international human rights law leading up to and since 13 April 2021.”

This open-ended commission seeking to investigate “all underlying root causes” of the conflict, means in practice, a hostile investigation against Israel, in perpetuity.

This commission of inquiry is unprecedented in scope and brazen in its anti-Israel bias, where the Jewish state’s guilt has already been presupposed before the ink on the mandate was even dry.

The systematic bias of the Council is evident in the make-up of those appointed to judge Israel in an ‘independent and impartial’ manner.

Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay (South Africa), who has a longstanding and fervent hostility against the State of Israel, is the chair. Other members of the enquiry, Miloon Kothari (India) and Chris Sidoti (Australia), have well-documented biases against Israel.

The first report has just been released ahead of the debate next week.

UN Watch has called the report a complete travesty and has set up a petition for the removal of Navi Pillay. Please consider signing the petition here.

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*Read an earlier article about the inquiry by Ian Dunwoodie on the Times of Israel here.