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Trudeau jaunts around the world every week at taxpayer expense. The latest jaunt was last night when he went to Florida to talk with Trump. Trudeau has given no detailed report of what the trip accomplished and it appears the 25% tariff is still Trump's plan. So what did this taxpayer-funded trip accomplish? Nothing it appears. Just another way to get attention in the media as Trudeau struggles to regain some support that has been lost. "WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau returned home Saturday after his meeting with Donald Trump without assurances the president-elect will back away from threatened tariffs on all products from the major American trading partner. Trump called the talks “productive” but signaled no retreat from a pledge that Canada says unfairly lumps it in with Mexico over the flow of drugs and migrants into the United States." Canada's Trudeau returns home after Trump meeting without assurances that tariffs are off the table

I tried to post an OP about the attack against the town of Emo, Ontario by the Human Rights Tribunal and it was rejected by the AI of re-politics. Wonder if anyone else has experienced this and might know what words or phrases it is rejecting now. I see very few people are posting under Federal politics on this website now. It appears to be dying a slow death. Freedom of speech is being slowly killed in Canada. Go Trump! Allan Stratton: There is no pride in alphabet activists shaming a small town

No. What God says in his written revelation, the King James Bible, is all that matters. What people that oppose God, his word, and Israel say is worthless and must be rejected. " 1 Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely. 2 The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. 3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. {wounds: Heb. griefs} 4 He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names. 5 Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite. {his…: Heb. of his understanding there is no number} 6 The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground. 7 Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: 8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. 9 He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry. 10 He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man. 11 The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy. 12 Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion. 13 For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee. 14 He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat. {He…: Heb. Who maketh thy border peace} {finest…: Heb. fat of wheat} 15 He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly. 16 He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. 17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold? 18 He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow. 19 He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. {his word: Heb. his words} 20 He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD. " Psalm 147 KJV

Good grief. You are so far out of touch with reality I don't know what to say. Almost everything you said is false. 1. America is a superpower and controlled by Americans. It is silly to think a tiny state of Israel controls the superpower of U.S.A. That really shows how far out of reality you must be. 2. The Holocaust took place in Europe which is made up of western countries. It resulted in the death of about one third of the European Jews in the 20th century. The anti-Semitism that led to it is still going on. You yourself are an example of the extreme falsehoods that anti-Semites often believe. The conspiracy theory that the Jews control America or are going to take over the world. That they control the banking and money systems. All conspiracy theories born out of the corrupt human heart. 3. I don't think they are claiming restitution for the nearly two millenia of anti-semitism and persecution. But if you go by Canada's payment of billions to FNs, that might set a precedent. 4. They never stole the land of Israel. It has been their land for thousands of years.

I have never heard of it. I know nothing about it and of course don't have the answer. People make statements all the time. Trudeau does it continually. I am not sure what the context of the statement was either. One would need to understand what the discussion was about and in what sense he made that statement. Personally I don't think Israel "controls America".. So without knowing the context, it really has no meaning or relevance. People often latch onto isolated words someone makes to try to invent some new accusation or meaning. That could be the case with this. That is a fairly nonsensical claim. So a few Jews own some businesses? Likely a few non-Jews own a lot of big businesses as well. Is that a crime now? That doesn't prove anything. They have been persecuted for 2,000 years throughout much of world. One third of European Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. If you look at the claims the natives make for residential school abuse, that pales in comparison to the Holocaust when millions were murdered and the 2,000 years of persecution. If they had the right to claim restitution for all that was done to them, there would be no amount of money in the world that could pay it. Giving them there own country back which is just a tiny piece of land, is the very least that could be done. The fact a few own some big businesses doesn't change the fact that they have been persecuted incessantly for 2,000 years. If a few are brilliant enough to know how to be successful in some big business good for them. But that changes nothing about the history of anti-Semitism that is still going on and getting worse apparently in Canada.

So you're ok with Trudeau squandering million of dollars of taxpayer money on a cricket producing plant. If it makes money, why do you support putting taxpayer money into it? You're not making sense now. You totally ignore the fact that it is taxpayer money we are talking about. Nobody in their right mind should support using taxpayer money to subsidize a cricket plant. We have countless other things that deserve support before producing crickets; like the failing health care system, the neglected Canadian Armed forces, the lack of border security and illegal drugs coming in, excessive government regulations hampering the resource industry, energy industry under attack by government, carbon taxes, etc. It's you liberals who think man is the cause of climate change rather than it being natural. Where did I deny that climate change happens? I didn't but you keep harping on that false claim. Of course there is climate change. Always has been. The real conspiracy theory is yours, i.e. your claim that man is the cause and therefore we should be punished for it in any way possible. Even to the point of taking our tax dollars and wasting it on a cricket plant. Crickets to that.

So you are ok with government spending taxpayer money to support an industry that produces crickets? Pure madness. Trudeau and his followers like you are totally obsessed with thinking you can control the climate you will do anything no matter how crazy. Raising crickets or any other insect is not something taxpayers should be forced to fund no matter what.

In Britain the new left wing Socialist government minister does want people to eat less meat and thereby produce less greenhouse gas. There was a news article on this the other day. This is not that far from forcing people to change their diets. Left wing Socialist-Liberals have no problem with forcing everyone to do what they wish. Trudeau has had no problem pushing his war against climate change on Canadians with carbon taxes, caps on the energy industry, regulations about auto manufacturing and spending billions of dollars on funding EV battery manufacturing plants. Now funding a plant to produce crickets. What's next?

He never gets tired of repeating the same old trash. What a life!

There are different articles that answer that. This one makes sense. "Speaking of the nation of Israel, Deuteronomy 7:7-9 tells us, “The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. But it was because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your forefathers that He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; He is the faithful God, keeping His covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commands.” God chose the nation of Israel to be the people through whom Jesus Christ would be born—the Savior from sin and death (John 3:16). God first promised the Messiah after Adam and Eve’s fall into sin (Genesis chapter 3). God later confirmed that the Messiah would come from the line of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Genesis 12:1-3). Jesus Christ is the ultimate reason why God chose Israel to be His special people. God did not need to have a chosen people, but He decided to do it that way. Jesus had to come from some nation of people, and God chose Israel. However, God’s reason for choosing the nation of Israel was not solely for the purpose of producing the Messiah. God’s desire for Israel was that they would go and teach others about Him. Israel was to be a nation of priests, prophets, and missionaries to the world. God’s intent was for Israel to be a distinct people, a nation who pointed others towards God and His promised provision of a Redeemer, Messiah, and Savior. For the most part, Israel failed in this task. However, God’s ultimate purpose for Israel—that of bringing the Messiah into the world—was fulfilled perfectly in the Person of Jesus Christ." Why did God choose Israel to be His chosen people? | GotQuestions.org This is mainly caused by their own hatred of Israel. This is how it has always been. They hate Israel and want to destroy it and never seem to change their thinking. Israel has a right to defend itself. Therefore the conflict never ends. God is sovereign and can do things the way he chooses. Who is man to say what or how God should do things? Should the created being tell his Creator what to do? I would advise you to get a King James Bible (Authorized Version) and start studying it. Life is short and there is not much time to get on the good side with God. We also appear to be living in the end times which are prophesied in the Bible. There may be a major war on the horizon. Things could get very bad. Regardless of that, we need to be prepared to meet God in the judgment. The Bible says we are all appointed to die and after that the judgment. Get right with God.

The U.N. was an abysmal failure in Rwanda as they were there and watched a huge genocide take place right in front of their eyes but stood back and did nothing. The U.N. did not give them the necessary soldiers to maintain peace and prevent genocide. This probably caused Canadian military officer Romeo Dellaire lifelong PTSD or grief since that time. He was powerless to do anything about it. I think he even wrote a book about it. "Seeing the situation in Rwanda deteriorating rapidly, Dallaire pleaded for logistical support and reinforcements of 2,000 soldiers for UNAMIR; he estimated that a total of 5,000 well-equipped troops would give the UN enough leverage to put an end to the killings. The UN Security Council refused, partly due to US opposition. US policy on interventions had become skeptical following the death of several U.S. soldiers in Mogadishu, Somalia the year before; this new policy was outlined in Presidential Decision Directive 25 by President Clinton. The Security Council voted to reduce UNAMIR further to 270 troops [1]" Roméo Dallaire - Wikipedia

The Canadian citizens never agreed to anything. Never given a choice. Bull. We did nothing and owe nothing. There is no "legal or moral liability". So what? This has nothing to do with the third world countries at all. Any subsidies come from taxpayers in Canada or wherever they are. The claim of subsidies may also be fiction. Environmentalists call normal business tax reductions to cover expenses paid a subsidy. It is not a subsidy. That is not the definition of a subsidy. If an energy company has to spend a billion dollars in order to extract some resources, they receive a tax reduction to compensate for their expenses. This is the same in any business. They don't pay taxes on the cost of doing business or costs of developing resource industries. Often building a oil production facility entails massive pipelines and refining facilities. That is a business expense and must be compensated for by tax reduction on expenses. Sometimes, subsidies must be given to enable a company to develop the industry in order to create thousands of jobs and future royalties result for the province and taxes for the federal government.

The recent COP conference Commies and Marxists decided they are going to take 300 billion dollars from the developed countries and give it to the third world. Who asked the people in the developed countries? Nobody. The COP gang are nothing but a bunch of dictators and Marxist commies.

No, that is not true. The Bible says: "16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved." John 3: 16, 17 KJV God loved man so much he sent his Son to earth to suffer and be crucified on a cross for the sins of man. So while God chose the nation of Israel for a special purpose, he also loved all of mankind, Jew and Gentile, so much that he came to earth to suffer and die on a cross for the sins of mankind. This offer of salvation and atonement is available to everyone who believes in Jesus Christ as Savior.

It is shocking that Trudeau would come out and support the ICC's decision to issue an arrest warrant for the Prime Minister of Israel and former defence minister. " Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has threatened countries willing to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, stating that sanctions will be imposed, reports Fox News. "If you are going to help the ICC as a nation and force the arrest warrant against Bibi and Gallant, the former defense minister, I will put sanctions on you as a nation. You’re gonna have to pick the rogue ICC versus America," said the senator." US Senate threatens sanctions on countries aiding ICC in Netanyahu's arrest

This began just after October 7, 2023 and has been continuing since. It is now becoming more violent. Should the government use the Emergencies Act to put a stop to it or is there some other way to deal with it? EDITORIAL: Jew hatred is now a national emergency

No. Why would you ask that?

No. Citizens are required to obey the law and pay the taxes that are established. However, we live in a democracy where free speech is supposed to be guaranteed. Therefore everyone has the right to oppose laws, taxes, and spending which they feel are wrong. It is part of our democratic system that evolved out of a historic Judeo-Christian civilization.

A conservative government is not expected to be Socialist by definition. Conservatives believe in free enterprise, not Socialism. That doesn't mean a conservative government would get rid of all social programs because once society is built on certain programs, they can't be stopped. Old age pensions, welfare, will of course continue for the good of the citizens. But NDP type Socialist programs that try to provide everything imaginable including incomes without working may not happen. Governments only have so much money and Canada is already deeply in debt. Debt is harmful because the interest must be paid which comes from the taxpayers and makes it harder to provide essential services.

This is completely crazy. Nobody should be forced to recognize pride weeks and fly pride flags if they choose not to. Not doing so is not discrimination. Discrimination is a positive act. choosing not to do something is not an act. It is simply being neutral. So how can they be guilty of discrimination? This doesn't make sense. It should be appealed as far as possible. Incidentally I believe there are a lot of Christians around Emo or in the area. I know of some. Actively supporting something like that would go against many folks in the area of religious beliefs. So punishing people who decline for religious reasons would also be a violation of their freedom of religion. s However nobody needs a reason for being neutral. Punishing the local representatives would be a form of persecution when all they are doing is likely representing the feelings of their constituency which may not wish to be involved in pride things. Everyone should have the freedom to remain neutral or non-participatory in such matters as pride. Being non-active is not discrimination. Ontario Human Rights Tribunal fines Emo Township for refusing Pride proclamation

It's too long a list to post on here. Here is the link with the long list of resolutions against Israel by the U.N. List of United Nations resolutions concerning Israel - Wikipedia Here is a list for the past 40 years. That is long enough. quote 1984: 23 November: Resolution 39/14: Reiterates the demand that Israel withdraw its threat to attack the nuclear facilities of neighbouring nations. 30 November: Resolution 39/28: Financing of UNDOF. 12 December: Resolution 39/54: Calling for an establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East. 13 December: Resolution 39/72-C: Demanding that Israel terminate all form of collaboration with South Africa. 14 December: Resolutions 39/95: Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories. 14 December: Resolution 39/101: Demands Israel not to build a canal between the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean. 14 December: Resolution 39/146: Reaffirmation of resolution 38/180 condemning Israel and calling all nations to cut ties with it. 17 December: Resolution 39/147: Israeli nuclear armament. 17 December: Resolution 39/169: Living conditions of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territories. 18 December: Resolution 39/223: Economic development projects in the occupied Palestinian territories. 1985: 1 November: Resolution 40/6: Reaffirmation of the condemnation of Israel on its attack on the Iraqi nuclear facility. 2 December: Resolution 40/59: Financing of UNDOF. 10 December: Resolution 40/64-E: Demanding that Israel terminate all forms of collaboration with South Africa. 12 December: Resolution 40/82: Calling for an establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East. 12 December: Resolution 40/93: Israeli nuclear armament. 16 December: Resolutions 40/161: Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories. 16 December: Resolution 40/167: Decides to monitor Israel's decision to construct a canal between the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean. 16 December: Resolution 40/168: Reaffirmation of resolution 38/180 condemning Israel and calling all nations to cut ties with it. 17 December: Resolution 40/169: Economic development projects in the occupied Palestinian territories. 17 December: Resolution 40/201: Living conditions of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territories. 1986: 29 October: Resolution 41/12: Calling Israel to place its nuclear facilities under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). 10 November: Resolution 41/35-C: Demanding that Israel terminate all forms of collaboration with South Africa. 3 December: Resolution 41/44: Financing of UNDOF. 3 December: Resolution 41/48: Calling for an establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East. 3 December: Resolutions 41/63: Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories. 4 December: Resolution 41/93: Israeli nuclear armament. 4 December: Resolution 41/162: Reaffirmation of resolution 38/180 condemning Israel and calling all nations to cut ties with it. 1987: 20 November: Resolution 42/23-D: Demanding that Israel terminate all forms of collaboration with South Africa. 30 November: Resolution 42/28: Calling for an establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East. 30 November: Resolution 42/44: Israeli nuclear armament. 3 December: Resolution 42/70: Financing of UNDOF. 8 December: Resolutions 42/160: Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories. 11 December: Resolution 42/166: Assistance to the Palestinian people. 11 December: Resolution 42/190: Living conditions of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territories. 11 December: Resolution 42/209: Reaffirmation of resolution 38/180 condemning Israel and calling all nations to cut ties with it. 1988: 3 November: Resolution 43/21: The First Palestinian Intifada. 5 December: Resolution 43/50-E: Demanding that Israel terminate all forms of collaboration with South Africa. 6 December: Resolution 43/54: Reaffirmation of resolution 38/180 condemning Israel and calling all nations to cut ties with it. 6 December: Resolutions 43/58: Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories. 7 December: Resolution 43/65: Calling for an establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East. 7 December: Resolution 43/80: Israeli nuclear armament. 15 December: UN General Assembly Resolution 43/176: International Peace Conference; principles for peace 21 December: Resolution 43/228: Financing of UNDOF. 1989: 20 April: Resolution 43/233: Expressing shock over killing of Palestinian civilians in Nahalin. 1991: 16 December: Resolution 4686: Annulled Res. 3379 2012 29 March: Resolution 66/225: Exploitation of natural resources. 2017 21 December: Resolution ES-10/19: Criticizing US policy on Jerusalem. 2018 13 June: Resolution ES-10/20: Criticizing the Israeli response to the 2018 Gaza border protests. 2023 27 October: Resolution ES-10/21: Protection of civilians and upholding legal and humanitarian obligations in the 2023 Israel–Hamas war. 12 December: Resolution ES-10/22

Some still don't believe that Communism, Socialism, and Marxism are all legalized theft. The Bible says in the ten commandments "thou shalt not steal". Yet some think if the government does it, it must not be stealing. It comes from the theory that governments can do no wrong. Taking from Peter to pay Paul by force is still stealing no matter how one looks at it. Of course governments have a right to tax people in order to provide basic necessary services. But at some point, if it goes beyond and becomes part of Communist or Socialist ideology, then it becomes stealing.

" The title "Anti-Semitism in the United Nations" was carefully chosen. It does not charge the UN, an indispensable world organization, with anti-Semitism. Rather, it suggests that there is a considerable anti-Semitic component behind the policies pursued there and expressed without challenge (except by the United States) in its fora. Emergency Special Sessions of the United Nations General Assembly are rare. No such session has ever been convened with respect to the Chinese occupation of Tibet, the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, the Syrian occupation of Lebanon, the slaughters in Rwanda, the disappearances in Zaire or the horrors of Bosnia. In fact, during the last 15 years they have been called only to condemn Israel. Whereas Arab states have traditionally used UN fora to demonize and isolate Israel (for example, they routinely attempt to deny Israel its credentials), they now believe they enjoy "Western" support which emboldens them. The latest Emergency Special Session, called to address Israeli construction at the Har Homa site, set in motion steps to de-legitimize Israel and to bring it to its knees. During its July meeting, the Session considered a resolution that requested member states "not to allow any import of goods produced and manufactured in occupied Palestinian territories, including Jerusalem" -- a virtual boycott and collective sanctions against the state. During its November meeting, it took a further step towards making Israel an outlaw state. In a vote of 139 to 3 with 13 abstentions, it set in motion the eventual convening of states parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention, which grew out of the Nazi occupation of Europe. Thus, that Convention will now be employed against the people who were Hitler's victims. The resolutions of the November meeting requested that the Swiss government, as the depository of this Geneva Convention, convene by February 1998 a meeting of experts to initiate the process of condemning Israel for violating the Convention. This was done despite the admonition of Switzerland's UN Observer that such action could damage the peace process and politicize international humanitarian law. As a result of such bias, the UN has lost credibility. It is no surprise that the Oslo agreements were negotiated outside of, and contained no role for, the UN. Though Israel has been the subject of aggressive wars in 1948, 1967 and 1973 and the victim of countless terrorist attacks, the Security Council and the General Assembly have never once censured its assailants. As Thomas M. Franck, Professor of International Law at New York University, has written, "...the UN is a place of convoluted realities. The Assembly's majority has also done its best to achieve an anti-Israeli politicization of the Secretariat." It is not just an issue of anti-Israel bias; it is difficult to ignore an anti-Jewish bent in many instances. For 50 years the UN has condemned virtually every conceivable form of racism. It has established programs to combat racism and its multiple facets -- including xenophobia -- but had consistently refused to do the same against anti-Semitism until 1993, and then, only under intense US pressure. Instead, the General Assembly established two Special Committees and two "special units" in the Secretariat devoted exclusively to Israeli practices, costing millions of dollars yearly. These produce anti-Israeli and Anti-Zionist pamphlets, booklets, papers and films, which are even distributed in the UN's six official languages to school children around the world. The intense hostility that Israel faces in the UN and the anti-Semitic reverberations are illustrated by two events that occurred at the Commission on Human Rights in 1991 and 1997. During the 1991 session, the Syrian Ambassador repeated the Damascus Blood Libel that Jews killed Christian children to use their blood to make Matzoth. The Western democracies could not be stirred to challenge this age-old anti-Semitic libel (which the Ottoman Sultan as the ruler of Syria, denounced when it surfaced in the 1840s). It took intense US pressure to procure a challenge to this libel in the record, and then only months after the Syrian representative emphasized to the Commission, "it's true, it's true, it's true." On 11 March 1997, the Palestinian representative charged, in a chamber packed with 500 people including the representatives of 53 states and hundreds of non-governmental organizations, that the Israeli Government had injected 300 Palestinian children with the HIV virus. Despite the repeated interventions of the Governments of Israel and the US, and UN Watch, this modern Blood Libel stands unchallenged and unrefuted on the UN record. No appropriate action by any UN body or official has been taken to date. The Chairman of the Commission on Human Rights, a Czech, agreed to place on the record his letter to the Ambassador of Israel, sharing his "concern as to the charge made" against Israel -- "an allegation made without evidence, on the basis of a newspaper article ... proved completely false." The Chairman reneged on his agreement after he was called to task by a delegation of Arab Ambassadors and received no support from other regional groups -- including Western Europe. Blood Libels are vicious and persistent carriers of anti-Semitism. The "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" were but a fiction of the Czarist police in the 1890s. Yet they are a well of anti-Semitic pollution -- published today in thousands of copies world-wide. The Damascus Blood Libel was raised 150 years later in the Commission on Human Rights. The latest PLO Blood Libel bears the imprimatur of the UN record and has yet to be removed by consolidated action of the Commission or by any UN agency or official on the public record. (Nor was there any rebuke in 1992 to a UN document circulated in the Commission by the PLO observer, which stated that Israelis "celebrating ...Yom Kippur, are never fully happy even on religious occasions unless their celebrations, as usual, are marked by Palestinian blood.") The treatment of Israel in the UN is often dismissed as realpolitik -- the power of Arab numbers -- and recently, as a reaction to Israel's Likud government and Prime Minister Netanyahu. Yet even during the hopeful days of the Rabin/Peres peace negotiations there were the usual anti-Israel resolutions passed each year in the UN General Assembly and 5 in the Commission on Human Rights. Since the Oslo accords, 259 Israelis have been killed and 5000 injured by Palestinian terror attacks. During the same period, 34 resolutions deploring Israel were passed at the UN, but not one against the terror attacks. The unique treatment of Israel cannot be explained on purely political grounds. Though anti-Semitic canards can go unchallenged in the UN, the mere reference in the 1997 Commission on Human Rights to an allegedly blasphemous reference to Islam, by a UN expert and from an academic source, brought a rebuff by consensus by the Chair, and the deletion of the offending sentence. The viciousness with which Israel is attacked, and the reluctance of even democratic states to defend Israel or to accord it the same latitude for mistakes and wrongs that it freely and reciprocally accords other states, has a special quality and origin. There is ample justification for the conclusion of Professor Anne Bayefsky of York University, Canada, writing of the UN Human Rights system: "It is the tool of those who would make Israel the archetypal human rights violator in the world today. It is a breeding ground for anti-Semitism. It is a sanctuary for moral relativists. In short, it is a scandal." The infamous "Zionism is Racism" resolution was passed in 1975 when Yitzhak Rabin was Prime Minister. Describing the circumstances of the passage of the resolution, a representative in the chamber stated that "hatred was crawling on the floor." Although the resolution was rescinded in 1991, anti-Semitism in UN fora is still a force to be reckoned with, bearing in mind that 25 Member States voted against repealing the resolution and 13 abstained. Anti-Semitism is not dead. Although anti-Semitic incidents have declined and a multi-cultural acceptance has produced wider tolerance in many states including the US, a 2000-year-old virus has mutated, and lives on, often in a disguised form. And the existence and achievements of the Jewish state in an area of relative backwardness stimulate anti-Semitism and furnish a respectable cover. Once anti-Semitism had a religious basis but, with the declining significance of religion in the West, anti-Semitism in church circles has relatively little standing as such. Hitler exploited anti-Semitism with deadly consequences for Jews and the world. But racial anti-Semitism has been tabooed after the Holocaust and the Nuremberg trials. Now the existence of the state of Israel permits anti-Semitism to assume a political form, safe from challenge as intolerance or racism. How many times one hears: "I like Jews but I can't stand Zionism," or "I have nothing against Jews, but I don't like Israel." The existence and achievements of Israel offer a visible and irresistible target for dormant anti-Semitic feelings aroused by a focus on Israel's mistakes and misdeeds, which are characteristic of every state including the US. Some Arab states appear to have now found a way to accomplish a purpose that the unrepealed PLO Charter, pledging the destruction of Israel has not achieved. Wars with Israel have been disasters and are much too problematic to repeat. The attempt to bring Israel to its knees through sanctions and boycotts at the Security Council faces a US veto. However, these Emergency Special Sessions of the UN General Assembly, in which all but 3 states have joined in a collective denunciation, show the possibility of a slow but sure de-legitimization of Israel and the hope of some for its eventual strangulation. Israel stands at the precipice of being treated at the UN as South Africa during apartheid. It is certainly not comparable, considering that Israeli Arabs are citizens, vote and sit in the Knesset. The challenge to Israel's right to exist as an equal state may soon move from the PLO Charter to the UN. The adjourned Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly is a harbinger of worse to be attempted. The world faces a dilemma. The UN exists, and there is no present alternative. As Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former US Ambassador to the UN warned long ago, "the UN is a dangerous place." The United Nations held their first ever conference on combatting anti-semitism on Thursday January 22, 2015. Barely half of the UN's 193 member states attended the informal meeting, which was planned four months ahead of time in hopes that many members would be able to attend. All 57 Islamic nations represented at the UN unanimously condemned "hatred, anti-semitism, and Islamophobia," in a move that US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power called "extremely significant." Speakers including French philosopher Bernard Henri Levy delved into historical anti-semitism and made the case that European anti-semitism today is as dangerous as ever. Levy stated "In Paris, just a few days ago, we heard once again the infamous cry 'Death to the Jews' and cartoonists were killed because of cartooning, police for policing and Jews just for shopping and being Jews. In other capitals in Europe and elsewhere, faulting the Jews is once again becoming the rallying cry of a new order of assassins, unless it is the same but cloaked in new habits. This assembly was given the sacred task of preventing those terrible spirits from re-awakening, but they have returned and that is why we are here." The most common theme of the day was that anti-semitism is the first step down a long road of racism, bigotry, and discrimination. At the meeting, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said that "Grievances about Israeli actions must never be used as an excuse to attack Jews." The meeting concluded with a panel discussion featuring a group of CEO's of human rights NGO's. Source: UN Watch; Jerusalem Post (January 22, 2014); Time Magazine (January 23, 2015)" Anti-Semitism in the United Nations

The U.N. and its associated organizations have a long history of anti-semitism and anti Israel resolutions. Everything they do is automatically anti Israel and has no credibility.

" If I forget thee, O Jerusalem… (Psalm 137) It is the great moral disorder of our time. Dear Israel is but a spit of earth on a huge globe. Three years after six million Jews were put to torture, humiliation, whippings, rape, medical experiment, starvation, and vile death, was it not surely time — time for all the nations of the Earth who had reached some moral understanding of life and government — to allow Jewish people time to rest, time to mourn, time to see what and who might be left of them. To find just one period, just one time, just one place where and when they did not have to start up in the middle of the night when unfamiliar sounds disturbed, did not have to hear demagogues howling at them from street corners, or put up with the trendy, ignorant western pseudo-radicals shouting in bullhorns from library steps. To not see their shops and homes targets of mobs and slanders, their synagogues battered. A time when they might gather on a bit of land where dogs were not set upon them; where children did not mock them; where passerby thugs did not attack their elders in the street; where Jews unique in their sorrow and pain could meet with some of their tormented doubles, if for nothing else but to share laments and profound griefs, generate solace by shared company and memory. Ah, Jews. Ah, Israel." Rex Murphy: Hatred of Israel is the great moral disorder of our time