August 1, 2013

Antisemitic Perdana Global Peace Foundation from Malaysia Added to Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, UN Web TV

http://webtv.un.org/meetings-events/watch/353rd-meeting-committee-on-the-exercise-of-the-inalienable-rights-of-the-palestinian-people/2575019852001

On July 30, 2013 the Perdana Global Peace Foundation from Malaysia received official UN accreditation by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. The man behind Perdana - its founder and current President - is none other than the former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad (1981-2003). (The official proceedings can be heard via UN webcast here at 1:00:06 to 1:05:11.)

Contrary to the requirements of the UN Charter and the supposed criteria for UN accreditation - which preach "respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion" - Mohamad has a long history of antisemitism.

As far back as September 1986, he gave a speech at a meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement, in which he stated: "the expulsion of Jews from the Holy Land 2,000 years ago and the Nazi oppression of Jews have taught them nothing. If anything at all, it has transformed the Jews into the very monsters that they condemn so roundly in their propaganda material. They have been apt pupils of the late Dr. Goebbels."

Today, his antisemitic (anti-American and anti-Israel) diatribes continue unabated on his "chedet" blog - conveniently available directly from the website of the now UN-accredited "Perdana Global Peace Foundation" - which he controls.

Here are just a few of his entries:
* September 14th, 2012: I am glad to be labelled anti-Semitic. How can I be otherwise when the Jews who so often talk of the horrors they suffered during the Holocaust show the same Nazi cruelty and hard-heartedness towards not just their enemies but even towards their allies should any try to stop the senseless killing of their Palestinian enemies."

* October 18, 2012: "the most blatant example of control over public expression is with regard to the protection of the Jews... when David Irving a British historian [ed. note: infamous Holocaust denier] doubted the 6 million figure, he was arrested and jailed in Austria even though his opinion was not expressed in that country. Since then no one has dared to openly question the veracity of the claim on the number of Jews killed by the Nazis."

* November 21th, 2012: "Israel is really operating an Auschwitz type of concentration camps as operated by the Nazis for Jews in the last war. Israel tells the world that the Nazis were inhuman. But the Palestinians, the Gazans did not put Jews in concentration camps. Still they are being made to apparently pay for the sins of the Europeans. Humane treatment is only for Jews. If Jews treat the Arabs with the same kind of brutality, it is alright."

* January 11, 2013: "AIPAC (the Jewish lobby) the most powerful lobby in the U.S..."

By the way, Mohamad is also a 9/11 conspiracy theorist - much like the UN's other famous antisemite, "human rights expert" Richard Falk.

Here's Mohamad's 9/11 rant on November 20th, 2012. The entry is entitled "9/11 Revisted - Seeking the Truth." He begins by congratulating the Perdana Global Peace Foundation for "doing the unthinkable. It is going to seek the truth about the destruction of the twin World Trade Centre buildings..." He starts his 9/11 assessment by claiming Arabs are an inferior people incapable of masterminding 9/11: "They are not a disciplined people and this lack of discipline shows everywhere...The attacks on 9/11 involved very complex elements which needed detailed planning, precise timings and disciplined execution." Mohamad continues, "I can imagine trained operatives like those in the CIA or Mossad planning and executing this complex operation but I cannot imagine an Arab like Osama bin Laden planning and directing this sophisticated aerial attack from some remote place in Afghanistan..." He then concludes: "Find the beneficiaries and I believe you will find the real terrorists."

There is not much doubt why the UN's Committee on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People found the Perdana Global Peace Foundation to be just the kind of group with which it can do business. The question is, why are Americans doing business with the UN?

There is something that can be done about it. Immediate steps can, and should, be taken to withhold American taxpayer dollars from the United Nations so long as this (or any other) UN body grants any official status, accreditation, or recognition, to any organization which promotes or condones antisemitism.