UN Committee hosts terrorist-sympathizers at UN

The UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) hosted the first of a two-day anti-Israel hate-fest at UN headquarters on June 29, 2017. At the "Forum to Mark 50 Years of Occupation," the CEIRPP Chair, Fode Seck of Senegal, told the gullible UN audience that his UN Committee is "very careful" not to associate with terrorist sympathizers and promoters.

In his words:

"There was a question put to the panel regarding links to terrorism. I would like to respond that the committee and its bureau and all members only function under and for resolutions of the UN. And all precautions in finding the lists of invitees take this into account. So none of the organizations, no individual, no committee, in this forum, is on the list for the UN on terrorism. Or under sanctions of UN resolutions or its Charter. This had been asked to panelists, I think it was a press organization, I wish to produce this clarification. We are very careful with such issues."

But in fact, the CEIRPP accredits and associates with NGOs that condone or justify violence against Jews inside or outside of Israel. The support of violence takes various forms: the reference to killers as martyrs, support for armed or violent struggle or resistance, and the effort to justify violence by focusing on alleged causes of terrorism. NGOs who wish to be "accredited" with the CEIRPP and be able to attend UN meetings submit an application form that includes information on their activities and programs "in support of the achievement of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people." The application is submitted to the Division for Palestinian Rights of the UN Secretariat, which then sends it for approval to the CEIRPP.

Here are just a few of the NGOs accredited by way of this UN process, and examples of support for terrorism by such CEIRPP-accredited NGOs:

• "These incredible people will continue their struggle until victory or martyrdom."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "Gaza – One Year On," Islamic Human Rights Commission)

• "Zionism is in denial of Palestinian reality and rights... Palestinians are left with no other alternative but to continue with their resistance to the racist colonial project."
  
  

  (Excerpt from "The Conflict in Palestine: Illusions of Peace and the Need for Effective Resistance," Al-Awda)

(Excerpt from "From BDS to Cultural Awareness," Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign)

(Excerpt from "Solidarity Sessions #1," Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign)

(Excerpt from "Al Quds Day 2013, London: We Are All Hizbullah," Islamic Human Rights Commission)

(Excerpt from "Resist Zionism & Imperialism," Al-Awda)

(Excerpt from "Al Quds Day 2009, London: We Are All Hamas," Al-Awda)

(Excerpt from "MASS RALLY AND MARCH - APRIL 7 - NEW YORK: No Return No Peace," Al-Awda)

(Excerpt from "Genocide Memorial Day, 2015," Islamic Human Rights Commission)

(Excerpt from "MASS RALLY AND MARCH - APRIL 7 - NEW YORK: Long Live the Intifada," Al-Awda)

(Excerpt from "Respect Existence or Expect Resistance," Al-Awda)

(Excerpt from "Al Quds Day 2015, London: Whose Side Are You On," Islamic Human Rights Commission)

(Excerpt from "Al Quds Day 2009, London: Hezbollah Flag," Al-Awda)

(Excerpt from "Al-Awda Vancouver Nakba Rally, May 2006," Al-Awda)

(Excerpt from "Al Quds Day 2013, London: We Are All Hizbullah," Islamic Human Rights Commission)

(Excerpt from "Intifada Street Exhibition Launch, March 15, 2014," Islamic Human Rights Commission)

Not only does the CEIRPP accredit terrorist sympathizers, but according to one of the panelists at the June 29th CEIRPP event, Palestinian Saeb Erekat, organizations that perpetrate suicide bombings and murder Israelis are not terrorist groups. In his words:

"Hamas and the PFLP [Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine] are not terrorist organizations."

Both Hamas and the PFLP are designated foreign terrorist organizations by the U.S. State Department.