Israel calls for closing UN investigation into last year’s Gaza conflict over ‘anti-Semitic’ comments

July 28 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Israeli authorities have called for the dissolution of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry into the conflict in Gaza during the month of May 2021 after one of the members of the body made comments considered by Jerusalem as “anti-Semitic”. “.

Miloon Kothari, a member of the Investigation Commission, denounced earlier this week a campaign on social networks, largely orchestrated by “the Jewish ‘lobby'”, to discredit the body’s work, according to ‘The Times of Israel’ .

“It’s not just governments. We’re very discouraged by social media, which is largely controlled, either by the Jewish ‘lobby’ or specific NGOs. A lot of money is being spent trying to discredit us,” Kothari said.

The member of the commission went a step further by even questioning Israel’s membership in the United Nations, considering that it is a country that “does not respect its own obligations as a member state of the UN.” “Directly or through the United States, (from Israel) they try to undermine the UN mechanisms,” he warned.

These words have not gone down well within the Israeli Executive, which, in the words of Keren Hajioff, spokesperson for Prime Minister Yair Lapid, has called these statements “anti-Semitic” and “racist”, and has called for international condemnation .

“The international community should be outraged by Miloon Kothari’s anti-Semitic comments. His racist comments about the ‘Jewish lobby’ that controls the media and his questioning of Israel’s right to exist as a member of the family of nations echoes the darkest days of antisemitism,” Hajioff said.

Thus, from the head of the Israeli Government, the work of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry has been branded as the “epitome of moral hypocrisy”, for which they have advocated its dissolution.

For its part, the Jewish organization Bnai Brith International has pointed in the same direction and has called for the closure of the investigations due to the “hateful comments” of some of the members of the commission, as well as other “flagrant violations”.

“The United Nations is in charge of defending fairness and neutrality in its work, but is this commission fair and neutral? Clearly not,” the president of the organization, Seth Riklin, has questioned and responded to himself.

The United Nations has launched an Investigation Commission for the alleged violations against Humanitarian Law that would have been committed in the occupied Palestinian territories –including East Jerusalem– and Israel, in the last major conflict between both parties in May 2021.

The war escalation broke out on May 10 after Hamas fired several projectiles, a day after Israeli agents stormed the Al Aqsa mosque, the third holiest place for Muslims, and injured hundreds of faithful in the middle of Ramadan. After eleven days of fighting, a ceasefire was reached.