Against an unrelenting barrage of false accusations – the ACLJ, through our international affiliate with consultative status at the U.N., the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ), continues to fight at the U.N. on behalf of the State of Israel. The latest lies about Israel came on April 21, when the U.N. Secretary-General released his report entitled Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, which ridiculously added the State of Israel to the "blacklist" of countries engaged in conflict-related sexual violence.
The report alleges that Israeli forces have committed acts of sexual abuse against Palestinians, including rape, gang rape, rape with objects, attempted rape, genital violence, invasive searches, forced nudity, unwanted sexual touching, and threats of rape.
We dug deeper into the report and found serious flaws and ethical violations by its authors in compiling the report. The allegations it makes against Israeli forces are labeled as “verified” acts of sexual violence by Israel against Palestinian detainees. However, after the report was released, Pramila Patten, the U.N.’s Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict and author of the report, admitted that she did not conduct any independent investigations to ascertain the veracity of the absurd allegations against Israeli forces.
Patten said: “That’s not my job . . . I receive information from the U.N. human rights monitors . . . it’s not the responsibility of my office to do any verification.” The human...
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