Several Jewish and pro-Israel organizations will rally in Geneva on March 18 to protest the demonization of Israel by the United Nations, and in particular the U.N. Human Rights Council, which is based in the Swiss city.
The protest, to be held at the Place des Nations across from the UNHRC building, is being organized by U.N. Watch, a nongovernmental organization whose stated mandate is "to monitor the performance of the United Nations by the yardstick of its own charter."
On that day, the 47-nation UNHRC is planning to launch an unprecedented assault against Israel when the Jewish state will be singled out for an entire day, a pariah treatment meted out to no other nation, as the council will present seven separate reports alleging Israeli war crimes. The UNHRC will release a report by its Commission of Inquiry into Israel's "large-scale assault" on "civilian" Palestinian protesters on the Israel's border with the Gaza Strip.
It will also release a report on a blacklist of companies that do business over the Green Line. U.N. Watch has called the compilation of the database "an act of economic warfare against Israel and its allies, which does nothing to further human rights."
"The U.N. should not devote further resources to this charade," the organization said.
According to U.N. Watch, the March 18 protest will point to five resolutions condemning Israel, while Iran, North Korea and Syria have been targeted with one resolution each. There will be no resolutions on Turkey, Zimbabwe, China, Pakistan and other oppressive regimes, the organization noted.
B'nai B'rith Europe, one of the groups supporting the demonstration, said, "It's time to react and protest against these U.N. injustices, against this demonization of the Jewish state, against the betrayal of their own founding values."
Serge Dahan, president of B'nai B'rith Europe, called on members and friends of his organization to come to Geneva and join in the prowwww.
