{"id":11532,"date":"2017-12-18T22:43:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T03:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=11532"},"modified":"2017-12-18T22:43:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T03:43:50","slug":"three-big-lies-the-un-spread-in-2017-that-stoked-hatred-of-israel-and-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/three-big-lies-the-un-spread-in-2017-that-stoked-hatred-of-israel-and-jews\/","title":{"rendered":"Three big lies the UN spread in 2017 that stoked hatred of Israel and Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_11537\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11537\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-18-at-22.34.07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-18-at-22.34.07-1024x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"282\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-18-at-22.34.07-1024x550.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-18-at-22.34.07-225x121.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-18-at-22.34.07-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-18-at-22.34.07-768x412.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-18-at-22.34.07.jpg 1416w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: UN Watch<\/figcaption><\/figure>Here are three examples of lies the United Nations spread about Israel in 2017. The ostensible goal was to provoke hatred of Israel and Jews. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unwatch.org\">United Nations Watch<\/a> is on hand, monitoring statements and correcting records in order, &#8220;to repel the darkness and light the candle of truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Executive Director Hillel C. Neuer writes about the three lies:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>When UNRWA launched a global campaign showing 11-year-old girl \u201cAya from Gaza\u201d in a bombed-out building\u2014portraying Israel as a cruel oppressor of Palestinian children\u2014UN Watch exposed a fraud: the photo was actually from Syria! The story went viral online. UNRWA suffered massive embarrassment, and was forced to remove the photo worldwide.<\/li>\n<li>When the U.N. held its &#8216;Hate Israel Day,&#8217; we brought the Son of Hamas to deliver an <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/israel\/2017\/september\/must-see-un-stunned-as-ex-hamas-member-blasts-palestinian-authority-not-israel\">epic speech exposing Palestinian crimes<\/a>. He stunned the assembly into silence, and literally caused heads to turn. The video has been seen more than 8 million times on Facebook and YouTube. Israel\u2019s prime minister called it \u201can extraordinary moment of truth at the United Nations.\u201d<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c2NaiX-hvVQ\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/li>\n<li>When Arab states accused Israel of Apartheid, I took the floor at the U.N. to remind the world that \u201cIsrael\u2019s 1.5 million Arabs enjoy full rights to vote and to be elected in the Knesset; they work as doctors and lawyers; they serve on the Supreme Court.\u201d Then I asked the accusers: \u201cHow many Jews live in your countries? Once upon a time, the Middle East was full of Jews. Algeria had 140,000 Jews. Algeria, where are your Jews? Egypt used to have 75,000 Jews. Where are your Jews?&#8221;  The speech went viral\u2014viewed more than 5 million times\u2014and continues to reverberate.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/35eEljsSQfc\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are three examples of lies the United Nations spread about Israel in 2017. The ostensible goal was to provoke hatred of Israel and Jews. But United Nations Watch is on hand, monitoring statements and correcting records in order, &#8220;to repel the darkness and light the candle of truth.&#8221; Executive Director Hillel C. Neuer writes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/three-big-lies-the-un-spread-in-2017-that-stoked-hatred-of-israel-and-jews\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Three big lies the UN spread in 2017 that stoked hatred of Israel and Jews&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,2459,2195,160],"tags":[2643,1680,766,2644],"class_list":["post-11532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-history","category-jewish","category-news-truths","tag-unwatch","tag-jews","tag-lies","tag-son-of-hamas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11532"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11543,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11532\/revisions\/11543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}