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Source: https://www.newsweek.com/time-united-nations-stop-funding-hate-groups-opinion-1760526
Time for the UN to Stop Funding Hate Groups
(Newsweek) Former U.S. Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Eliot Engel - Israel has been subjected for many years to unfair, microscopic attention over its actions and relationship with the Palestinians, subjected to a standard that no other country in the world has had to endure. It is now clear that the criticism is not about particular issues but about Israel's very existence. Two UN institutions were created in the wake of the 1975 General Assembly resolution which characterized Zionism as a form of racism: the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) and the Division for Palestinian Rights (DPR). While the resolution was repealed in 1991, the two institutions that have served to implement its message continue to operate, engaged in a year-round effort to undermine and delegitimize Israel - all in the name of the international community. If UN members are interested in contributing toward ending the conflict, they should stop supporting the anti-Israel propaganda apparatus of the CEIRPP and DPR that makes peace impossible to achieve. The writers formerly chaired the House Foreign Affairs Committee.