Pillay Commission

“She is an active anti-Israel lobbyist who has been made chair of this inquiry,” Neuer said of Pillay. “It is astonishing, absurd, and a travesty of justice.”https://t.co/Y8orm640yr

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 17, 2022

It also urges governments to adopt a U.N. resolution to implement “targeted and lawful sanctions on Israel, including a military embargo,” and to support the International Criminal Court’s probe into Israeli “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity.”

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— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 17, 2022

“Neuer said Pillay’s record goes beyond verbal criticizing Israel & includes lobbying governments. The 2020 “Sanction Apartheid Israel” petition she signed calls on governments to ban the “military-security cooperation with Israel” & to suspend free-trade agreements with Israel.”

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 17, 2022

Two weeks earlier, Ban ki-Moon had told the HRC that “it cannot be a place that targets some countries, yet ignores others. It cannot be a place where some members overlook the human rights violations of others so as to avoid scrutiny themselves.”

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 17, 2022

“At a press conference in Jerusalem in 2011, however, Navi Pillay stated that the council “has not singled out Israel, contrary to media reports.”

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 17, 2022

“Israel has been the target of more condemnatory HRC resolutions than any other country, well more than twice as many as those on abuses in Syria, Burma, and North Korea.

Not a single HRC resolution has criticized the human rights records of China, Russia, Cuba, or many others.”

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 17, 2022