On Monday morning, Anne Bayefsky was one of the few voices to oppose the anti-Israel madness of the execrable Richard Falk, the 9/11 Truther who is a Special Rapporteur at the UN Human Rights Council. The Human Rights Council, incidentally, is something the U.S. government chose to ignore until President Barack Obama decided to give it legitimacy–a policy both Susan Rice and Samantha Power fully support.
Bayefsky live-tweeted the event, and her comments are both darkly amusing and revealing about the extent to which the Human Rights Council has become a forum for brutal dictators to taunt Jews–while we watch:
Just out. #UN “expert” & antisemite #RichardFalk says #Israel “control[s]…the world media”! ow.ly/lQkmp #tcot
— Anne Bayefsky (@AnneBayefsky) June 8, 2013
At the United Nations Human Rights Council where #Iran speaking on how much it cares about #humanrights. Nobody laughed.
— Anne Bayefsky (@AnneBayefsky) June 10, 2013
At UN Human Rights Council, European Union issues call for #Israel to fall on the #UN‘s sword, for the sake of everybody else.
— Anne Bayefsky (@AnneBayefsky) June 10, 2013
#RichardFalk at UN Human Rights Council bashes U.S. for $$ & military cooperation with #Israel. Didn’t take him long.
— Anne Bayefsky (@AnneBayefsky) June 10, 2013
Guess what. #RichardFalk says not one word about #humanrights violation by a single Arab. Guess #Israel fighting with itself.
— Anne Bayefsky (@AnneBayefsky) June 10, 2013
Hezbollah says #RichardFalk has been defamed. Falk becomes victim in inverted human rights world of #UN.
— Anne Bayefsky (@AnneBayefsky) June 10, 2013
Human rights violation authority #Venezuela accuses #Israel of “systematic human rights violations.”
— Anne Bayefsky (@AnneBayefsky) June 10, 2013
#SaudiArabia says #Israel flouts human rights law.From the land of gender apartheid.
— Anne Bayefsky (@AnneBayefsky) June 10, 2013
#Syrian representative upset by #Israeli “aggression.”And no one flinched.After all, this is the #UN.
— Anne Bayefsky (@AnneBayefsky) June 10, 2013
#Iran, whose Pres. openly advocates annihilation of Israel, says Israel guilty of genocide. UN value? Deflect attention from real violators.
— Anne Bayefsky (@AnneBayefsky) June 10, 2013
#Cuba says “#Israel‘s acts are genocidal in nature.”#UN “rights” council is the ideal place for hysterical lies.
— Anne Bayefsky (@AnneBayefsky) June 10, 2013
#Syria thanks #RichardFalk for describing facts as they are.Send Falk to Syria to investigate facts as they are!
— Anne Bayefsky (@AnneBayefsky) June 10, 2013
Responsibility to protect applies to #Palestinians, says #RichardFalk.What do you say, Samantha Power?
— Anne Bayefsky (@AnneBayefsky) June 10, 2013
Here is Bayefsky’s stirring address to the Council, calling out Falk for the ongoing scandal that he is.