Amb. Power: Pro-Hezbollah Swiss Official “Unfit for Continued Service” at U.N.

[shira]

Switzerland has nominated to the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) a candidate who is a vocal defender of Hezbollah, of Holocaust deniers, and of the Gaddafi regime. Tweeting about Jean Ziegler’s nomination, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power did not mince words:

Samantha Power ‏@AmbassadorPower 15 Aug
.@UNWatch: Indeed. Dr. Ziegler is unfit for continued service at the @UN_HRC.
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Ziegler’s background is more than a little checkered:

Ziegler’s pro-Hezbollah position, his defense of the late French Holocaust-denier and Islamist Roger Garaudy and his role as co-founder of a human rights prize set up by the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi unleased sharp criticism last week from UN Watch, a Geneva-based NGO monitoring the UN Human Rights Council.

Ziegler generated controversy in 2006 by telling an interviewer that he “refused to describe Hezbollah as a terrorist group.” The European Union later unanimously blacklisted Hezbollah’s “military wing” as a terrorist group.

The UNHRC has come under repeated and consistent criticism as one that allows illiberal regimes and their supporters to target the Jewish state.

http://www.thetower.org/amb-power-pro-hezbollah-swiss-official-unfit-for-continued-service-at-u-n/

And in related news today...

Ban Ki-moon: 'I don't think there is discrimination against Israel at UN'
http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Ban-Ki-moon-I-dont-think-there-is-discrimination-against-Israel-at-UN-323597

In Jerusalem last week, the secretary- general reportedly admitted to students that there is bias against Israel in the UN.

“Unfortunately because of the conflict, Israel has been weighed down by criticism and suffered from bias – sometimes even discrimination,” Ban said at the time, according to several media sources.

On Monday in New York, Ban retracted these comments, and emphasized that “incitement against any group of people, any religion or tradition… is unacceptable.”

[leveymg]

1. Powers is just stirring up the insanity of the place. Adding to it.

Same as it ever was.

[Alamuti Lotus]

2. What a coincidence, Samantha Power is unfit for any service

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