[Opinion] Human Rights Day is now Jew-Hatred Day
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In the United Nations and many western capitals, December 10 is celebrated as “Human Rights Day.” In reality, it should be repackaged as Antisemitism Day, reflecting the systematic weaponization of the original values and principles in order to demonize Israel and justify attacks on the Jewish people.
To understand the travesty, it is necessary to begin 76 years ago, on December 10, 1948, when the members of the United Nations solemnly adopted two important statements – the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Both were written in the shadow of the Holocaust, ostensibly to ensure that the horrors of Nazi Germany and its allies would not be repeated.
Now, these idealistic texts and the institutions created to implement them have been captured by haters, and the language of human rights is routinely exploited for the most vicious antisemitism since the Holocaust. Real and horrible human rights abuses in Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Africa and elsewhere are relegated to minor concerns, while armies of haters march through university campuses and the city streets attacking Jews, burning synagogues, and chanting slogans declaring Israelis as guilty of war crimes, genocide and apartheid.
