Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust Anne Bayefsky, Director March 17, 2013 Agenda Item 7 UN Human Rights Council Apartheid Palestine. That's the only label that fits the 22nd Arab state now being shaped here by the United Nations Human Rights Council. There were once an estimated 900,000 Jews across the Arab world, but today there are less than a few thousand. They were given a choice by their Arab and Islamic overlords: die, convert or flee. At the same time, twenty per cent of Israel's population ­ 1.5 million people ­ are free Arab citizens ­ with more rights and freedoms than they have in any Arab country. The so-called human rights authorities among us appreciate the simplicity of the standard template embraced by this Council's reports: A Jew living on Arab-claimed land is a violation of Arab human rights. An Arab living (and thriving) in the Jewish state is fulfilling a human right. One rule for Jews, and another rule for everybody else. That's apartheid Palestine. -- That's also a violation of the UN Charter. Remember the bit about the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small? Hadas Fogel, was a 3-month old "extremist settler" decapitated by Palestinian terrorists in 2011, who also butchered her "settler" brothers Elad, age 4, and Yoav, age 11, and her "settler" mother and father. Last year, Palestinian official television twice broadcast a program in which the killers were praised. Apartheid Palestine isn't a theory. And it ought to be an abomination to anyone, or any state, that actually cares about human rights.