Why is access to UN Headquarters being controlled by UN Palestinian Rights Division? By Anne Bayefsky, November 20, 2013, foxnews/opinion/2013/11/20/why-are-pro-israel-jewish-observers-being-barred-from-un-day-solidarity/ American taxpayers have now paid over half a billion dollars to renovate United Nations Headquarters in New York City. And guess who is controlling access to the meeting rooms? The UN Division for Palestinian Rights. On Friday, November 15, 2013, an official UN-accredited Jewish non-governmental organization had its security clearance to attend an open UN meeting in New York revoked just because the UN staff dedicated to all things Palestinian said so. A group of 18 Birthright Israel alumni had been invited to witness “UN Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People” by the UN-accredited Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust. The annual occasion is the apex of the UN’s Israel-bashing calendar. Evidently, the prospect of pro-Israel Jewish observers was too much for UN officials to bear. The UN Charter’s promise of “the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, be damned. The annual event, which this year will be held on November 25, marks November 29, 1947 – the day that the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution which partitioned Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state. It was a resolution accepted by Jews and rejected across the Arab world. It was also a day celebrated by the victims of the Nazis and the Jewish people in their ancient homeland and around the world. At the UN, however, it’s been downhill ever since. ...
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