from UN Watch – Geneva Headquarters, June 29 201

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Israel is under attack. Not with physical weapons, but with “lawfare”—a new form of war using the power of law to delegitimize Israel and weaken its global standing.

In this battle, UN Watch is situated at Ground Zero, directly across the street from the U.N.’s misnamed Human Rights Council.

Tragically, this international body is busy creating one sham investigation after another to slander Israel’s finest soldiers as “war criminals.” The council’s biased reports are then cited as “credible” international evidence to prosecute Israelis in courts worldwide.

Let me tell you where things stand, what we’re doing about it, and how you can help.

Lawfare is dangerously moving from the U.N. into domestic courts. In a 70-page complaint filed last Wednesday in a Belgian court, former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and other Israeli leaders and officers stand accused of war crimes.

As we feared, the complaint cites the Human Rights Council’s notorious Goldstone Report, a deeply flawed document that falsely accuses Israeli officials of deliberately targeting Palestinian civilians in last January’s war.

Worse, the council is moving ahead on another mission—a copycat of the Goldstone probe—to investigate the May 31st flotilla incident. Once again, the guilty verdict was declared in advance: Israel was condemned “in the strongest terms” for an “outrageous attack.” First they decide, then they collect the facts…

So what are we doing in response?

UN Watch is fighting back, exposing hypocrisy, and spreading the truth. We led this year’s battle to discredit the Goldstone Report, bringing British Colonel Richard Kemp to testify.

And in the June council session that just ended, UN Watch intervened before the world’s ambassadors with 10 powerful speeches, translated into numerous languages and diffused around the globe. Consider our impact:

• When the U.N. held an “urgent debate” on the flotilla, UN Watch was the only organization to testify about the violent Jihadists on the Mavi Marmara ship who deliberately provoked Israel. Our speech was seen throughout the world on YouTube—click here for video — and reprinted on the editorial page of the National Post.

• UN Watch exposed the council members’ hypocrisy and double standards in ignoring this month’s real humanitarian catastrophe, in Kyrgyzstan—click for video.

• When the Syrian delegate revived the ancient blood libel by accusing Israel of teaching its children to sing about “sucking blood” and “tearing flesh,” UN Watch was the only one at the U.N. to speak out. Following our appeal, the United States responded strongly, saying, “Such insults and slurs are deeply offensive and an affront to the dignity of all. They evoke classic anti-semitic stereotypes.”

• When U.N. investigator Richard Falk called for a “Legitimacy war” against Israel, UN Watch exposed his support for Hamas — and for 9/11 conspiracy theories. Click here for video.

• UN Watch itemized massacres around the world over the past 12 months that were systematically ignored by the council, which only summoned moral outrage when it came to Israel. This speech was reprinted prominently in yesterday’s Toronto Sun. Columnist Peter Worthington wrote that UN Watch “has earned lots of respect,” praising us as “one of the more interesting organizations concerned with the fate of the world and the people in it.” World leaders visiting Toronto’s G-20 summit hopefully saw the article.

Day in and day out, we expose the U.N. council’s phony veneer of credibility, by reminding the world of its membership: gross violators like Col. Qaddafi’s Libya, Cuba, China, Pakistan, Russia, and Saudi Arabia. This month alone, UN Watch’s facts and truth-telling message were quoted in such places as the Miami Herald, FOX News, and the prestigious Foreign Policy.

Our battle is non-stop. I just got back to my office now from a meeting of human rights organizations with the U.N.’s new committee of legal experts to implement the Goldstone Report. I was the only one to speak out against the report’s bias. I submitted detailed rebuttal evidence, and warned the experts of how their findings will be misused by the Arab-controlled council to the benefit of Hamas terrorists.

Selim, you can help UN Watch defend freedom, democracy and truth by supporting the work of our dedicated staff of six to battle dictatorships and double standards, and to defend the right of Israel to exist as a legitimate U.N. member state.

That’s why I am asking for your financial support. Please, Selim, send a secure online donation now so we can continue speaking truth to power. It’s wrong for human rights to be hijacked by the world’s worst abusers and their apologists. And I know you won’t tolerate it.