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Source: https://jcpa.org/why-israel-refuses-to-cooperate-with-the-un-commission-of-inquiry/
Why Israel Refuses to Cooperate with the UN Commission of Inquiry
(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Amb. Dore Gold - On Feb. 24, 2022, Amb. Dore Gold, President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, wrote an open letter to the Chair of the UN Human Rights Council's Commission of Inquiry, Navi Pillay, in support of Israel's refusal to cooperate with the Commission, after previous UN Human Rights Council investigations displayed a clear bias and hostile predisposition towards Israel. Gold wrote: The UN Human Rights Council should have been an ally of Israel. As a state, we emerged in the aftermath of the Holocaust, the worst war crime in human history. It comes as no surprise that many of the founders of the human rights movement came from Jewish origins. Sullying the Jewish people as a whole flies in the face of what we have represented since the Second World War and feeds into the regeneration of the anti-Semitism that we are witnessing in recent decades. We cannot cooperate with a UN initiative that is so deeply flawed in an area which we hold so closely to our own self-definition. It is for this reason that both the Jewish state and the Jewish NGOs will not stand for the process you have undertaken.