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More of the same:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/israel-us-decry-rights-monitors-202840488.html

Miloon Kothari was quoted in the media as questioning Israel’s right to be a U.N. member state and alluding to a “Jewish lobby.” The comments stoked longtime accusations by Israel, the U.S. and others that the rights body is biased against Israel.

Kothari, from India, is one of three members of the Commission of Inquiry on occupied Palestinian territory, created by the U.N.-backed Human Rights Council last year. The commission quickly countered that his comments had been deliberately misquoted.

The commission, headed by former U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay, was set up after the 11-day war last year between Israel and the militant Hamas group in Gaza. The fighting killed at least 261 people in Gaza and 14 people in Israel, according to the U.N. rights office.

Israel’s policies in the Palestinian territories have long faced international scrutiny. Last year, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court launched an investigation into alleged Israeli crimes there, focusing on Israel’s repeated military operations in Gaza and the expansion of Jewish settlements in east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank.

The commission is the first to have an open-ended mandate from the U.N. rights body, and critics say such permanent scrutiny shows anti-Israel bias in the 47-member-state council. Proponents support the commission as a way to keep tabs on injustices faced by Palestinians under decades of Israeli rule.

In an interview published Monday by Mondoweiss, an online publication critical of Israel’s policies toward Palestinians, Kothari spoke about the commission’s work and mandate. He cited a lack of cooperation from Israel’s government.

Asked about criticism by some governments, including that of Canada, he replied that he was “very disheartened by the social media that is controlled largely by — whether it’s the Jewish lobby or it’s specific NGOs — a lot of money is being thrown into trying to discredit us.”

The commission's role, Kothari said, was to look into humanitarian law, human rights law, and criminal law. “On all three counts, Israel is in systematic violation of all the legislation,” he said.

“I would go as far as to raise the question as why are they even a member of the United Nations, because they don’t respect — the Israeli government does not respect — its own obligations as a U.N. member state,” he added.

None of the above should even be controversial. Certainly none of it is nothing that is not already common knowledge. But of course the reaction:

Keren Hajioff, a spokeswoman for Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, said the international community should be “outraged” over Kothari's comments.

“His racist remarks about ‘the Jewish Lobby’ that controls the media and his questioning Israel’s right to exist as a member of the family of nations echo the darkest days of antisemitism,” she said.

Criticizing Jewish racism is anti-racism. Not criticizing Jewish racism (and thus approving its continuation) is what would be racist.

In a statement, the U.S. ambassador to the rights council, Michele Taylor, and the State Department’s special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, Deborah Lipstadt, called antisemitism and anti-Israel bias a “poisonous venom” that has affected international discourse for too long — including at U.N. institutions.

They said Kothari’s comments were “outrageous, inappropriate, and corrosive" and echoed “age-old antisemitic tropes."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mich%C3%A8le_Taylor

Taylor is Jewish
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She serves as a board member, governance chair, and the guest programming Co-Chair of the Atlanta Jewish Film Society, which hosts the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival where she has introduced films.[11]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Lipstadt

Lipstadt was born in New York City to a Jewish family
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she also wrote a monthly column for The Jewish Spectator. Lipstadt then received a research fellowship from the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Lipstadt received the 1994 National Jewish Book Award.

Why should non-Jews let Jews tell us how much criticism of Jews is acceptable? That would be as flawed as "non-whites" letting "whites" tell us how much criticism of "whites" is acceptable!

Thankfully many more commenters get it now:

Jewish lobby?  AIPAC, at whose annual meeting, the politicians from both U.S. parties line up to speak and bow down. Israel is an apartheid state that allows the brutalization of Palestinian people and the destruction of their land. Israel is in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and has been for years.

Do not deny the facts. Enough is enough Mr. Kothari is all right how long USA and other countries try to hide the tyrinny and cruilty of Israiel. It is the digital world now everything can easily be seen and judged.

Kothari is 100% correct. Israel has violated every law of humanity and if you call Jews out on their crimes, among the worst in human history, they scream antisemitic.  Israel is a war criminal and is now officially charged.

If anyone tells the truth regarding the crimes and atrocities that Israel commits every single day, they are accused of being anti-Semitic.

Playing the Anti-Semite Card NO longer works!
AIPAC has BRIBED most US politicians to condone genocide committed by the Israeli Regime!

The Russian and Ukrainian Jews who have no connection to the land whatsoever and are not Semite's are kiIIng and stealing land from the indigenous Palestinians people who are Semite's.

The Palestinian people are Semites, so in the strictest sense, the not infrequent
Israeli slaughter of Palestinian women and children is Israeli anti-Semitism. Also, both
Israelis and Jews very often make use of the concept of anti-Semitism NOT as a shield, but as a weapon to discourage legitimate criticism and engender self-censorship.

etc.