The “Israel commits genocide” club
Years ago – certainly by the time of Durban in 2001 – it became more clear that most third-world countries and NGOs had an enormous animus for Israel:
In 2001, an NGO Forum ran separately from the World Conference against Racism in the nearby Kingsmead Stadium in Durban, from 28 August to 1 September. It consisted of 3,000 NGOs and was attended by 8,000 representatives. The declaration the NGO Forum adopted was not an official document of the conference. The final NGO document called “for the reinstitution of the UN resolution equating Zionism with racism” and “the complete and total isolation of Israel as an apartheid state”.
Note the venue: Durban is in South Africa, the country currently leading the “Israel is committing genocide” pack in the ICJ. Ex-president Jimmy Carter also made his contribution in 2006, with a book he wrote entitled Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.
It got steadily worse over the years. And then October 7 and its aftermath made the situation crystal clear to anyone paying attention. At this point, not only do the vast majority of third-world countries want Israel and Israelis (and perhaps non-Israeli Jews as well) destroyed, but the leaders of many Western countries are looking the other way or blaming Israel for attacking Gaza in response to 10/7. For the most part, with a few exceptions (Germany being a major one), many European countries are reluctant to take a stand on the ICJ case, wary of trouble from their own sizable Moslem populations.
Here’s an article from Brendan O’Neill in Spiked describing the situation; I’ve bolded a point he makes that I think is highly insightful:
… [T]he West’s woke left laps it up. They’re glued to the ICJ proceedings. They appear to derive a perverse relish from seeing the Jewish State in the dock. They ask not one critical question about the moral credentials of Israel’s accusers, for to do so would muddy the moralistic waters they swim in; it would add irritating complexity to the infantile narrative they have fashioned in which Israel is evil incarnate, and thus anyone who opposes Israel is good. …
These Western activists are as hypocritical as the nation states pointing a blood-stained finger at Israel. In Britain, radical members of Labour are giddily cheering the showtrial at The Hague. …
And I accuse the Western left of being the running dogs of all this global Israelophobia. Of forfeiting their right to be treated as serious moral actors by aligning with the demagogues, Islamists and outright racists who have dragged the world’s only Jewish nation to court on the most trumped-up charge imaginable. Of flagrantly abandoning their supposed commitment to anti-racism by whitewashing Hamas’s orgy of racist violence that gave rise to the current war. And of emboldening the fascists of Hamas by promoting the libel that says Israel is a genocidal state. After all, if Israel is guilty of the worst crime known to man, why should Hamas not attack it again, and again, and again, until the Nazi-like threat it poses to the Palestinian people has been eradicated? I accuse you of giving moral succour to fascists.
And it’s been going on for many many decades.
There’s also this, which lists the overt supporters of South Africa’s case. They’re the gang you’d expect:
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation was one of the first blocs to publicly back the case when South Africa filed it late last month. It said there was “mass genocide being perpetrated by the Israeli defense forces” and accused Israel of “indiscriminate targeting” of Gaza’s civilian population.
The OIC is a bloc of 57 countries that includes Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Egypt. Its headquarters are in Saudi Arabia. The Cairo-based Arab League, whose 22 member countries are almost all part of the OIC, also backed South Africa’s case.
South Africa drew some support from outside the Arab world. Namibia and Pakistan agreed with the case at a U.N. General Assembly session this week. Malaysia also expressed support.
A much smaller group overtly supports Israel: the US, UK, Hungary, Germany, Austria, Guatemala, and the Czech Republic. The NGOs and many other groups, however, are on Hamas’ side:
The [South African] lawsuit has also been supported by hundreds of activist groups, NGOs, political parties, unions, and other organizations, with (as of mid-January 2024) over 1400 showing support in the form of a letter organized by the newly-formed International Coalition to Stop Genocide in Palestine. Some of that letter’s signatories, and other supportive organizations, include [I’ve highlighted a few organizations of particular familiarity or interest]:
Al-Haq
Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights
Amnesty International
Boycott from Within
CodePink [otherwise known as Women for the Violent Rape of Israelis]
De-Colonizer
Democratic Socialists of America
Human Rights Watch
International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
International People’s Assembly
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
Israelis Against Apartheid
Jewish Voice for Peace [one of the most rabidly Israel-hating groups of all; membership is far-far-leftist Jews but also non-Jews]
La Via Campesina
National Lawyers Guild
Nelson Mandela Foundation [Mandela was actually a big supporter of Palestine and Arafat: see this]
New Zealand Labour Party
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions
Palestinian NGO Network
Progressive International
RootsAction
People’s Forum
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom [women again]
World Beyond War
World March of Women [more women]
Of course, nothing the ICJ does has any teeth, and Israel will do what it feels it must do despite the verdict, which is virtually guaranteed to go against it. But the relative isolation of Israel among the nations of the world, and the NGO non-virtue signalers, is an indication of how morally bankrupt most of the world has become.
Oh honey! I don’t know where to start. Now maybe you know I don’t give up my guns
Be wary of any group that has ” peace ” in their name.
I was reading some Muslim document recently, probably the Hamas charter – my memory not as good as it once was- and this Muslim document was basically saying the way to peace is under Islam.
Ok. They can keep their ” peace.”
I’m tempted to break out my Spanish invective from Alvarez Guedes our Lenny Bruce type although he was more Will Rogers in manner
I really think that the people in these NGOs are too young to have witnessed real genocide or have forgotten what it is like. If the Israelis were committing genocide Gaza would be looking quite different.
the chinese have been deporting uighurs and sterilizing them, thats as close to genocide as you get outside a rwandan machete, maybe one from myanmar,
NGOs certainly follow Conquest’s second rule of politics.
” Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left wing.”
conquest who investigated the holomodor following gareth jones footsteps,
https://twitter.com/hpmcd1/status/1746706211922223182
Why was BLM left off the group of supportive organizations?
Some months ago a friend was visiting NY and saw some evidence of Tibet resistance. Now I see that Tibet exists no longer. The Dali Lama is now 79 and still l living in exile. Does this qualify as Chinese genocide?
well they call it the tibet autonomous region or ziyang province
yes the whole exercise is a moral obscenity,
… this Muslim document was basically saying the way to peace is under Islam.
Jon baker:
I believe the Qur’an is one such document.
submission to the will of allah is not peace,
https://twitter.com/byJoshuaDavis/status/1746743805410459829
so slavery is totes fine now,
I have hated NGO’S for a long long time.
I know this is a bit callous since the topic is Israel and the recent war waged against it, but NGOs are another example of the evil our tax code fosters by taxing income. An income tax is amoral and leads to evil in many ways. This is one of them.
The U.S. government should not tax any corporation’s income a.k.a. “profits.” The only legitimate taxes are consumption taxes.
Eliminate the taxation of profits and corrupt NGOs lose a great deal of their power and effective, well intentioned NGOs continue to flourish.
I think that in order for a charity to keep it’s non profit status and so that donations can be tax deductable, there should be some maximum salary limit for all employees, perhaps not including personal security cost *. Maybe a number some specific times the official ” poverty level.” And yes, I include churches in this, as well. There are church leaders that are nothing like the first century church leaders that selflessly gave their lives to spread the gospel.
* I think the personal security cost should not be a part of that equation because there are non profits that might run afoul of violent groups and the leaders need protection.
What’s wrong with all these people?
Can’t all be Jew-haters.
Nope. Got to hate the west. The idea that the common people can choose their own paths and not those prescribed by the movements and governments in question.
And Israel is part of the west. So, anything Israel does, whether or not they actually did it, is a horrid crime. Anything its enemies do didn’t actually happen.
Jon baker,
I agree NGOs are problematic, but to fix the problem you are arguing more government intervention and control. Do you really want to live in a nation where the government determines what a reasonable salary is?
You’re on the right track, now take it to first principles. Why should a government have any say or control over how much anyone earns and, why should a government have any right to confiscate any fraction of those earnings? The problem isn’t too many NGOs having tax exemption status, the problem is that every entity in the U.S. is not exempt from taxing “profits.”
If you want less of something tax it. If you want more of something subsidize it. Our nation taxes productivity (income) and subsidizes sloth (welfare). And we have a culture and media that worship leisure and chastise manual labor. I wonder how that happened?
I know this is a bit callous since the topic is Israel and the recent war waged against it, but NGOs are another example of the evil our tax code fosters by taxing income. An income tax is amoral and leads to evil in many ways. This is one of them.
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Thanks for the weird non sequitur.
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Eliminate the taxation of profits and corrupt NGOs lose a great deal of their power and effective, well intentioned NGOs continue to flourish.
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Won’t accomplish a blessed thing. What might be beneficial is for governments to stop embezzling tax money by making grants to corporate bodies.
The list of nations and organizations that are anti-Israel have one thing in common – they’re all anti Judeo-Christian ethics, democracy, and free enterprise. The represent those who want (or think the want) authoritarian government where they will have equality. They just don’t realize that, except for the ruling class, it will be equality of misery.
The implementation of egalitarian governance has been tried many times. And continues to be tried as we discuss this. The evidence is clear to any who will examine it. It always leads to a small ruling elite, (the Nobles) and their subjects (the Serfs) who are invariably miserable.
The myth of an egalitarian society is so attractive to some humans, that they will lie, cheat, steal, and even murder to achieve it. These people believe, beyond all experience, that human beings are perfectible, and that they know how to bring that about.
This fact, along with the instinct for tribalism, is one why freedom and democracy are always in peril. They’re not a given; we have to stand up for them.
Israel commits genocide.
I’ve got to salute the brilliance of this mindfuck.
It zaps the homo sap brain into a freefall trance (Israel? Jews? Holocaust? Genocide? Tilt!) and the virus is planted.
Well stated, J.J.
I’ll let you all in on a secret. I like women. Even women who aren’t sleeping with me. I liked my mother and my grandmother and my sister.
You raped those women. Brutally. I can’t get it out of my mind.
What you don’t want is a jury of men looking for vengeance
Two SEALls got killed fighting pirates. They think they’re invincible
Human Rights Watch never pretended to be anything but an agitprop agency for third world commies. Back when Amnesty had a good reputation, Wm. Rusher wrote columns dissecting their hiring practices and their distribution of attention. They’ve always been poseurs. They’ve lost the art of being subtle about it.
Steve57:
IIRC the sea is always trying to kill you. Both drowned attempting to board a ship in high seas (a bit more complicated than that, see cdrsalamander on substack).
Steve57,
I think it’s a positive personality trait for elite forces to think they’re invincible. Much preferable than if they believe they are vincible.
South Africa where blacks demonstrated their commitment to tribalism, savagery, communism, and racism. In ten years they’ll be back to where they were when the Dutch settled Capetown. Knew it would happen when the white leadership sold out the whites. De Klerk must be living it up in Switzerland.
actually deklerk died 2 years at the age of 85, in South Africa, the reconciliation commission wasn’t really all that,
The anti-Israel sentiment after 10/7 is beyond the pale. I live in the US, and as we know, our Country has been taken over by radical progressive left-wing maniacs, all the way up to the dementia-in-chief Joe Biden. These people are HATERS of not only Jews, BUT the entire Western World order. They will stop at nothing, to destroy not only Israel, but the rest of us, on top of it. Unless we stand up to these fascist/Nazi nut jobs we will LOSE! I stand with Israel; God bless you, Jewish brothers and Sisters! Destroy the haters before they destroy you. NEVER AGAIN!