UN Special Rapporteurs Give Israel 60 Days to Respond to Deep Concerns Regarding the Jewish Nation-State Law, November 18, 2018

UN Special Rapporteurs Give Israel 60 Days to Respond to Deep Concerns Regarding the Jewish Nation-State Law

November 18, 2018

Editor's Note:

While brutal force has been used to create Zionist Israel and sustain it thus far, Zionist claims to Palestine are false. Actually, from the five thousand years of known written history, there has been a continuous Palestinian-Canaanite presence in the Holy Land. Despite the Zionist false claims, the ancient Israelites ruled part of the land for only 85 years (during the reign of David, Solomon, and Solomon's son).

After that, the Egyptians conquered Palestine-Canaan in 925 BC, followed by Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans, before the Arab Muslim rule, starting from 636 AD.

By the Time Jesus started his mission, the three population groups of Canaanites, Palestinians, and Israelites were melted together in religion and language. Most of them became Christians when Constantine converted in 313 AD. Then, most of them became Muslims in the 7th and 8th centuries AD.

So, Palestinian Muslims, Christians, and Jews are the ones who have the right to claim descent from ancient Israelites, Palestinians, and Canaanites, not Zionists from other continents.

The following news stories are just examples of the Israeli occupation government violations of Palestinian human rights, on daily basis.

More detailed news stories can be found at the following sources: https://english.palinfo.com/, http://imemc.org/, https://paltoday.ps/ar/


Israeli dispossession of the Palestinian people, by the continuous theft of their lands, 1947-2006

UN Special Rapporteurs Give Israel 60 Days to Respond to ‘Deep Concerns’ Regarding Jewish Nation-State Law

November 17, 2018 7:03 PM IMEMC News & Agencies

Four Special Rapporteurs express ‘deep concern’ that Nation-State Law is ‘discriminatory in nature and in practice against non-Jewish citizens and other minorities and does not apply the principle of equality between citizens, which is one of the key principles for democratic political systems.’

Following a special request for action issued by Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, four United Nations special rapporteurs have given Israel a 60-day deadline to respond to their grave concerns regarding the Jewish Nation-State Law, adopted by the Knesset on 19 July, 2018.

The 60-day period began on 2 November, 2018, when UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights Karima Bennoune, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Michael Lynk, Special Rapporteur on minority issues Fernand de Varennes, and Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance E. Tendayi Achiume sent a communique to Israeli authorities expressing their deep concerns regarding the impact of the new law.

In their letter, the special rapporteurs expressed “deep concern” that the Israeli Basic Law appears “to be discriminatory in nature and in practice against non-Jewish citizens and other minorities and does not apply the principle of equality between citizens, which is one of the key principles for democratic political systems.”

UN General Assembly Votes in Favor of 8 Resolutions on Palestine

November 17, 2018 6:48 PM IMEMC News & Agencies

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voted, early Saturday, in favor of eight resolutions on Palestine and a ninth on the Syrian Golan Heights.

Palestine’s Permanent Observer to the UN, Riyadh Mansour, commented on the vote, saying that it is proof that the international community stands behind and supports the Palestinian cause despite efforts by the United States to change that.

Mansour told Voice of Palestine radio that the UNGA voted in favor of four resolutions related to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), and four more on the practices of Israeli authorities in the occupied territories.

He added, according to Ma’an, that the UNGA is going to vote in two weeks, on six more resolutions regarding the Palestinian cause.

A draft resolution “Assistance to Palestine refugees” received 161 votes in favor, 2 against (Israel, United States) and 8 abstentions (Cameroon, Canada, C te d’Ivoire, Guatemala, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, Solomon Islands).

The draft resolution “Persons displaced as a result of the June 1967 and subsequent hostilities” received a recorded 155 votes in favor to 5 against (Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, United States) and 10 abstentions (Australia, Cameroon, C te d’Ivoire, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Palau, Rwanda, Solomon Islands, Togo).

In addition, the draft resolution “Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East” was approved by a vote of 158 in favor to 5 against (Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, United States) and 7 abstentions (Australia, Cameroon, C te d’Ivoire, Guatemala, Palau, Rwanda, Solomon Islands).

The draft resolution “Palestine refugees’ properties and their revenues” was approved by a vote of 155 in favor to 5 against (Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, United States) and 10 abstentions (Australia, Cameroon, C te d’Ivoire, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Palau, Rwanda, Solomon Islands, Togo).

A series of resolutions related to the report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories were approved.

Taking up the draft “Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories,” the General Assembly approved it by a recorded vote of 77 in favor to 8 against (Australia, Canada, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, United States) and 79 abstentions.

The draft of “Applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the other occupied Arab territories,” was approved by a vote of 154 in favor to 5 against (Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, United States) and 8 abstentions (Australia, Cameroon, C te d’Ivoire, Guatemala, Palau, Rwanda, Solomon Islands, Togo).

It then approved the draft “Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan” by a recorded 153 votes in favor to 5 against (Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, United States), with 10 abstentions (Australia, Cameroon, C te d’Ivoire, Guatemala, Honduras, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Solomon Islands, Togo).

Taking up the draft “Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem,” the UNGA approved it by a recorded vote of 153 in favor to 6 against (Australia, Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, United States), with 9 abstentions (Cameroon, C te d’Ivoire, Guatemala, Honduras, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Solomon Islands, Togo).

“The occupied Syrian Golan” was then approved by a vote of 151 in favor to 2 against (Israel, United States) and 14 abstentions. UNGA called, by it terms, upon Israel to desist from changing the physical character, demographic composition, institutional structure and legal status of the occupied Syrian Golan, and in particular to desist from establishing settlements.

It also called upon Israel to desist from imposing Israeli citizenship and identity cards on Syrian citizens in the occupied Golan.

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