Israël vraagt EU om geen onderdak te bieden aan VN panel over Palestijnse rechten

Het in 1975 opgerichte VN "Comité voor het Uitoefenen van de Onvervreemdbare Rechten van het Palestijnse Volk" (CEIRPP) keert zich tegen het onvervreemdbare recht op zelfbeschikking van het Joodse volk, doordat het de 'bezetting van 1948' wil beëindigen (de oprichting van Israël) en Zionisme als vorm van racisme bestempelt.

Het maakte onder meer naam door haar bijdrage in de organisatie van het NGO forum op de Durban conferentie tegen racisme in 2001, die op een blamage uitliep voor de VN, de deelnemende NGO's en de strijd tegen racisme en antisemitisme.

 

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Israel asks EU not to host UN panel on Palestinians' rights

Israeli envoy to European Union sends letter to parliament president requesting he prevent panel to be held by UN's Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People

Associated Press
Published: 08.13.07, 17:35 / Israel News
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3437121,00.html

Israel has asked the European Parliament not to provide space this month for a two-day UN panel meeting on the rights of Palestinians, saying the UN group co-hosting it has an anti-Israel record.

Ran Curiel, the Israeli envoy to the European Union, wrote a letter last week to EU parliament president Hans-Gert Poettering asking him to prevent the planned August 30-31 conference from taking place at the EU assembly's building in Brussels, Israeli officials said.

Israel views the committee as a legacy of the 1975 UN General Assembly resolution - revoked in 1991 - that equated Zionism with racism.

Curiel called the parliament's decision to allow the conference "lamentable" and said the assembly had rejected a similar request for a meeting by the UN panel a few years ago because the committee has called for boycotts and sanctions against Israel.

EU parliament officials were not immediately available for comment.

The committee, chaired by Senegal, has 22 members and 26 observers.
Cyprus and Malta are the only members who are also EU member states, according to the UN website.