Itongadol.- The United Nations Human Rights Council on Thursday created a black list of companies that are either located in West Bank settlements or have any connection with those communities.
The decision was part of a wide sweeping resolution designed to help stop settlement activity. It was one of five anti-Israel resolutions, including one that called on Israel to return the Golan Heights to Syria, that the UNHRC approved as it wrapped up its 31st session in Geneva.
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN in New York said that passage of this particular resolution on the settlements was a moment of “record-breaking” hypocrisy for the UN. The UNHRC has “turned into an accomplice of the BDS movement and its conduct is both anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic,” Danon said.
“This is what the Human Rights Council chooses to debate while Europe is still reeling from a wave of terror attacks perpetrated by ISIS – the world’s worst human rights violator,” Danon stated.
"Hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians are murdered and forced to flee their homes as refugees and they choose to condemn Israel – the only democracy in the Middle East,” he said.
PLO Ambassador to the UN in Geneva hailed that and the other three on the Palestinian territories, including one that passed unanimously, which afford the Palestinian right to self-determination.
“We call upon all countries to respect UN resolutions and mechanisms, including the establishment of a database for all companies that contribute to the Israeli occupation and colonization of the State of Palestine,” he said.
He urged member state to support the application of international law to the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
“As the belligerent occupying power, Israel continues to systematically violate the inalienable rights of the Palestinians while enjoying impunity from the international community, despite numerous UN resolutions demanding an equitable and just end to the occupation,” he said.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the international community not to abide by the UNHRC\’s decisions on Israel.
"The UNHRC has become an anti-Israel circus," he said. It\’s "absurd that instead of dealing with Palestinian terror attacks or ISIS in Europe, it decides to condemn Israel" which is the only democracy in the Middle East, Netanyahu said.