Such a resolution could be the foundation for future sanctions against Israel should it refuse to comply by removing its settlements from the newly invented state alongside its border.
"We will NOT allow the UN and her gang of Israel haters to target Israel unjustly," state the rally organizers. "NO MORE Anti-Israel documents or resolutions! The UN's attempt to revise and erase Jewish history is deplorable. We call on the UN to focus on REAL issues such as Syrian Genocide and Global Islamic Terror instead of vilifying Israel unjustly." - David Israel in The Jewish Press 12 Jan '17
NY Shame on the U.N. rally at nearby French Consulate |
Some 5,000 demonstrators gathered outside the Permanent Mission of France to the United Nations in New York on Thursday to express their support for Israel ahead of an international conference on Middle East peace set to be held on Sunday.
The gathering was sponsored by the North American Coalition for Israel, which is made up of more than 50 organizations. Under the banner “Shame on the UN,” public figures, clergy members and victims of terrorist attacks gathered together with members of the Jewish community, demanding that the United Nations “immediately cease its unjust targeting of Israel and focus on real issues such as Syrian Genocide and Global Islamic Terror.”
NY Assemblyman Dov Hikind blames Obama and John Kerry for the hypocrisy getting 72 nations to ignore far worse humanitarian conflicts to obsesss against Israel.
Hillary Markowitz emcees the Shame on the UN rally |
Watch NYC zionist activist, Jeffrey Wiesenfeld address the rally:
On the heels of Sunday’s attack in Jerusalem which took the lives of four Israeli soldiers, Ms. Markowitz believes that the aforementioned US, UN and international moves have emboldened the terrorists.
Rabbi Mark Wildes of Manhattan Jewish Experience speaks.
The rally was organized by the organizations StandWithUs, Amcha, Strength to Strength and Fuel for Truth.
French Pres. Francois Hollande invited Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to meet with him and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Paris the day after the conference, but the prime minister said he would only come if the conference was dropped.