AT the United Nations, human rights have become a weapon, "not in the hands of the abused, but the abusers", according to visiting New York-based activist Professor Anne Bayefsky.
Professor Bayefsky delivered this year's B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) Gandel Oration to more than 400 at Mount Scopus College's Besen Centre in Burwood on Sunday.
Professor Bayefsky, who was a delegate at the UN's 2001 racism conference in Durban, South Africa, told The AJN last month that Australia should join Canada, the US and Israel in boycotting next year's Durban review conference in Geneva because there is no chance of reversing anti-Israel resolutions by taking part in the event.
The international legal scholar and human rights monitor runs eyeontheun.com, a website that analyses abuse of the UN's human rights system.
In her Melbourne address, Professor Bayefsky said countries with abysmal records run the UN's human rights agenda and consistently condemn Israel in its struggle for survival, equating Zionism with Nazism and condemning western democracies, while ignoring abuses in Communist countries and much of the Islamic world.
At the same time, the UN has taken "a few baby steps" in facing up to Iran's nuclear program and the threat it poses to Israel and other countries, she said.
Professor Bayefsky said the UN's voting record on Israel "is a betrayal of the victims of the Holocaust" and of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, fostered by figures such as Australia's Herbert Evatt.
"What has emerged instead, powered by a global $US20 billion a year megaphone, is the collective depravity of an immoral majority," she said.
The UN Human Rights Commission, which was abolished in 2006, passed more resolutions condemning Israel than any other country "and adopted nothing ever on serial abusers such as Syria, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe". continues here
It must be difficult for a nation barely sixty years old, a nation stolen from others, to assert that it is legitimate, that it has the right to exist, it must be difficult for a nation, to condemn another for endeavouring to build a nuclear arsenal, when they themselves stole the self same technology. It must be hard to defend a country that imposes rigid controls upon which citizens live where, upon immigration whilst its supporters worldwide advocate the exact opposite for western nations, it must be hard to be a hypocrite. 14
Professor Bayefsky delivered this year's B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) Gandel Oration to more than 400 at Mount Scopus College's Besen Centre in Burwood on Sunday.
Professor Bayefsky, who was a delegate at the UN's 2001 racism conference in Durban, South Africa, told The AJN last month that Australia should join Canada, the US and Israel in boycotting next year's Durban review conference in Geneva because there is no chance of reversing anti-Israel resolutions by taking part in the event.
The international legal scholar and human rights monitor runs eyeontheun.com, a website that analyses abuse of the UN's human rights system.
In her Melbourne address, Professor Bayefsky said countries with abysmal records run the UN's human rights agenda and consistently condemn Israel in its struggle for survival, equating Zionism with Nazism and condemning western democracies, while ignoring abuses in Communist countries and much of the Islamic world.
At the same time, the UN has taken "a few baby steps" in facing up to Iran's nuclear program and the threat it poses to Israel and other countries, she said.
Professor Bayefsky said the UN's voting record on Israel "is a betrayal of the victims of the Holocaust" and of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, fostered by figures such as Australia's Herbert Evatt.
"What has emerged instead, powered by a global $US20 billion a year megaphone, is the collective depravity of an immoral majority," she said.
The UN Human Rights Commission, which was abolished in 2006, passed more resolutions condemning Israel than any other country "and adopted nothing ever on serial abusers such as Syria, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe". continues here
It must be difficult for a nation barely sixty years old, a nation stolen from others, to assert that it is legitimate, that it has the right to exist, it must be difficult for a nation, to condemn another for endeavouring to build a nuclear arsenal, when they themselves stole the self same technology. It must be hard to defend a country that imposes rigid controls upon which citizens live where, upon immigration whilst its supporters worldwide advocate the exact opposite for western nations, it must be hard to be a hypocrite. 14
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