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The UN's Selective Outrage on Disputed Territories
(RealClearWorld) Brenda Shaffer, Svante Cornell, and Jonathan Schanzer - As U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pointed out at AIPAC, the UN Human Rights Office on Feb. 12 published a database of 112 companies that operate in the West Bank and east Jerusalem to give a boost to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign that seeks to wage an economic war against Israel. The UN Human Rights Office must now be prepared to explain why some occupations are inconsequential, but only Israel's control of the West Bank is deserving of a blacklist. Brenda Shaffer, a senior advisor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. Svante Cornell is director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at the American Foreign Policy Council. Jonathan Schanzer is senior vice president at FDD.