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Source: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-un-inquiry-promotes-genocide-against-jews/
The UN Commission of Inquiry Promotes Genocide Against Jews
(Times of Israel) Anne Bayefsky - A new report of the UN Commission of Inquiry (COI), published Tuesday, charges Israel with committing genocide. The COI was created by the UN Human Rights Council in May 2021 to demonize Israel. Its three members were selected precisely because of their rabid anti-Israel bias. The COI's latest report fails to contain a single recommendation for Hamas, rationalizing the crimes against humanity committed by Hamas and other Palestinians on Oct. 7 as an understandable reaction to Israeli wrongs. The COI claims that if Palestinian civilians are dead, then Israelis must have committed the crime of targeting and wrongfully killing them, although the law of armed conflict anticipates civilian casualties, which are lawful provided that conditions related to proportionality and the military advantage gained are satisfied. All the COI reports are part of a campaign to manufacture Israeli "crimes" that mirror actual Palestinian crimes. The writer is president of Human Rights Voices and director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust.