UN Watch presents Jason Kenney with Moral Courage Award

[Keepitsimple]

Can't help it - I like the guy. He's always clear on his positions and is an excellent speaker. When Stephen Harper decides to pass the baton, Jason Kenney would be a very respectable choice to succeed him.

UN Watch, a Geneva-based human rights group, has presented federal cabinet minister Jason Kenney with its Moral Courage Award for speaking up for victims of tyranny around the world.

“UN Watch honors Minister Kenney for demonstrating the courage to lead in upholding the founding principles of the United Nations, and defending the true principles of human rights,” said UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer.

“When others have been silent while serial perpetrators of human rights abuses like Iran and Syria seek to hijack the UN’s human rights and anti-racism causes, Minister Kenney has been a clear and consistent voice for their millions of victims, opposing tyranny, hypocrisy and injustice.”

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/05/23/un-watch-presents-jason-kenney-with-moral-courage-award/

[cybercoma]

Of course you like him. Does he really need to do anything but play for the right team for you to like him?

[cybercoma]

I mean, congratulations Jason Kenney on your award from a pro-Israeli apartheid lobbying group.

[Keepitsimple]

I mean, congratulations Jason Kenney on your award from a pro-Israeli apartheid lobbying group.

Do you have a Cite for your claim? Not sure what you mean by apartheid in this context - perhaps you can explain? Here's an overview that's found on Wikipedia:

UN Watch is a Geneva-based non-governmental organization whose stated mission is "to monitor the performance of the United Nations by the yardstick of its own Charter".[1] It is an accredited NGO in Special Consultative Status to the UN Economic and Social Council and an Associate NGO to the UN Department of Public Information.[5]

UN Watch has been active in combating human rights abuses in Democratic Republic of the Congo and Darfur, perceived anti-Israel and antisemitic sentiment in the UN,[6][7] and monitoring the qualifications of candidate countries to United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) elections. It has been a strong critic of the UNHRC, asserting that many of its members have poor human rights records themselves. UN Watch has described the council as equally bad as or worse than its forerunner, the defunct[8] United Nations Commission on Human Rights.[9]

The group has been praised by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan,[10][11] and the Director General of the UN Office in Geneva Sergei Ordzhonikidze has acknowledged "the valuable work of UN Watch in support of the just application of values and principles of the United Nations Charter and support for human rights for all."[12]

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_Watch

[Bitsy]

Another overview.........

UN Watch is a Geneva-based organization closely associated with rightist sectors in the United States and Israel that claims to monitor compliance of the United Nations with its charter. According to its website, UN Watch "serves as the central forum for discussing international economic and social issues, and for formulating policy recommendations addressed to Member States and the United Nations system."[1]

Despite efforts to paint itself as an independent watchdog group, UN Watch has repeatedly been accused of having a staunchly "pro-Israel" bias and on outlook on Middle East peace that is closely in line with that of Israel's right-wing Likud Party. For many years, the group was funded by the American Jewish Committee (AJC)—publisher of the neoconservative flagship journal Commentary, whose editors have included Norman Podhoretz and Irving Kristol—which has made use of its offices in Geneva, as well as those of other affiliated groups, including the Transatlantic Institute in Brussels.[2]

A non-exhaustive Right Web search of Form 990 filings from 2002-2009 uncovered more than $2.3 million in donations to UN Watch—as well as to its U.S. fundraising arm, the American Friends of UN Watch—from Israel-centric and conservative-leaning foundations. The most important funder during this period was the American Jewish Committee, which appears to have given the group some $1.8 million between 2002-2007. Other donors have included the Newton & Rochelle Becker Foundation, which has supported several neoconservative organizations like the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) and Daniel Pipes' Middle East Forum, and the Shillman Foundation, which has also supported MEMRI. The Becker Foundation has been described by the Center for American Progress as a primary funder of the so-called "Islamophobia network," an informal grouping of prominent foundations, opinion makers, and media personalities that spread negative impressions about Islam and Muslims in the United States. MEMRI, like UN Watch, is a "nonpartisan" watchdog group with an identifiable right-wing, pro-Israel slant.

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/UN_Watch

[PIK]

How the left love the UN ,till they say something nice about a conservative. lol

[Michael Hardner]

How the left love the UN ,till they say something nice about a conservative. lol

It's UN Watch, not the UN.

[Signals.Cpl]

Of course you like him. Does he really need to do anything but play for the right team for you to like him?

Does he have to do anything but play on the other team for you to dislike him?

[cybercoma]

Does he have to do anything but play on the other team for you to dislike him?

No. I dislike him because he has done things that are terrible for this country. I'll give him this though, in a party of sycophants, he doesn't seem to show that quality. So good for him.

[Keepitsimple]

No. I dislike him because he has done things that are terrible for this country. I'll give him this though, in a party of sycophants, he doesn't seem to show that quality. So good for him.

It would be helpful if you could tell us 2 or 3 "things that are terrible for our country" that Jason Kenney has done.

Edited May 31, 2014 by Keepitsimple

[cybercoma]

No it wouldn't because nothing I say will persuade you. I already know what kind of partisan you are.

[Smallc]

That isn't very convincing Cyber

[Signals.Cpl]

No. I dislike him because he has done things that are terrible for this country. I'll give him this though, in a party of sycophants, he doesn't seem to show that quality. So good for him.

And what are those terrible things?

[Keepitsimple]

No it wouldn't because nothing I say will persuade you. I already know what kind of partisan you are.

Cyber - you don't really seem to read other peoples' posts. I've mentioned more than once that I've voted Liberal before - Chretien twice actually....I'm pretty much a centrist by nature. I've also mentioned more than once that Canada needs two strong parties and it's been very disappointing that the Liberal Party has become what it has - Martin, Dion, Ignatieff, ...and now Trudeau. I am open-minded to voting Liberal again - when they have a leader, a vision and policies that seem to make sense. So.....am I a partisan? Right now I don't like Trudeau and the Liberals and their shallowness.....so Harper and the Conservatives are the best of a bad lot. Not much to brag about - but the best alternative for these times - in my opinion. So Cyber - share your background with us - have you voted Conservative before? How often?.....or are you the real partisan?

Now - would you please state 2 or 3 examples of how Jason Kenney has done terrible things to this country?