UN Council on Human Rights Meeting
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March 24, 2016–The UN Human Rights Council has begun compiling a black list of Israeli and international companies operating in the Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria.

The Council decision stated that the list would be comprised of firms which maintain business relations with Jewish settlements. It said the list would be updated annually.

This statement by the UN Human Rights Council received an angry reaction in Jerusalem. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the organization had long ago become an anti-Israel circus which constantly attacks the only democracy in the Middle East while ignoring human rights violations in Syria, Iran and North Korea.

As reported by Cursor, a few days ago the UN Human Rights Council appointed Canadian professor Michael Lynk as special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories.

Earlier Lynk compared Israel’s settlement policy with the mass migration of Germans into territories occupied by the Nazis during World War II. In one of his public appearances he also called for international isolation of the Jewish state.

Full story in Russian here.