Bias in ICC Prosecutor Bensouda’s Meetings and Citations

In deciding to pursue an investigation of Israel, International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda met with a number of terror-tied organizations and groups promoting demonization campaigns targeting Israel. These non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are also cited in various ICC documents related to the investigation. It appears that Bensouda exclusively met and replied upon groups representing the Palestinian narrative, which is reflected in the significant bias in her analysis.

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• 2010 Gaza flotilla
• Delegitimization
• Disproportionate condemnations
• Fatou Bensouda
• IHRA

• International Criminal Court (ICC)
• Iran
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• Qatar
• Terrorism

• UN Human Rights Council (HRC)
• UNHRC
• War crimes

HRW's "World Report 2016": Selective Narrative on Israel and Middle East

Human Rights Watch continues to distort the truth about Israel in its "World Report 2016," making use of faulty methodology and promoting a biased view of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

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• Biases
• Demonization
• Hezbollah
• Iran

• Lack of Evidence
• Methodology
• Terrorism

[Opinion] The dark knights of human rights

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• Human Rights
• International Human Rights Day
• Iran

HRW: Iran's statements not incitement to genocide

This is a blatant example of Roths indifference to genocidal threats and human rights abuses when these target Israel. Roth...has consistently demonstrated a obsession with attacking the Jewish state"

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• Genocide
• Iran
• Ken Roth

[Opinion] The UN secretary-general and Mary Robinson's Iranian debacle

Ban Ki-Moons planned attendance at a conference in Tehran recalls the preparation for the Durban Conference. In 2001, UN Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson authorized, planned and chaired a meeting in Iran, where Jews and Israelis were not granted visas to attend, and hate-filled texts were issued.

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• 2001 Durban Conference
• Iran
• United Nations

NGOs but not HRW and Amnesty against Iran's incitement to genocide

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• Genocide
• Human Rights
• Iran

Prepared Statement for Irish Parliament's Joint Committee on European Affairs session on the EU-Israel Association Agreement and the Situation in Gaza

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• 2009 Gaza War
• 2009 Goldstone Report
• Antisemitism
• Demonization
• Disproportionate Focus

• Durban
• Durban Strategy
• Hamas
• Iran
• Lawfare

• Racism
• Soft Power
• Terrorism

HRW Finds Hamas War Crimes -- 6 Months Late

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• Hamas
• Human Shields
• Iran
• Terrorism
• War crimes

NGOs discover Iran's human rights violations

Amnesty, HRW, and FIDH have issued a number of statements on the Iranian governments suppression of demonstrations and related issues following the presidential election. NGOs call for restraint, investigations, and new elections. Before the elections, Iranian violations were not a high priority for HRW or FIDH. Despite its large and active Middle East division, HRW devotes few resources to Iran. The majority of Amnestys attention was through narrowly-focused and low-impact Urgent Actions, not in-depth reports.

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• Disproportionate Focus
• Iran

UN tries to avoid NGO incitement, but gives Ahmadinejad a platform

UN officials are trying to prevent the type of virulent NGO activity that defined the 2001 NGO Forum at the first Durban conference. The UN sent security personnel to confront hateful posters and speech, and reportedly denied anti-Israel NGOs request for an official side-event. In contrast, Iranian president Ahmadinejad used offensive and racist language against Israel. Human Rights Watch condemned Western democracies for "undermining" the conference, not the racism and corruption of human rights by Iran and radical NGOs.

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• Durban
• Iran
• Racism
• United Nations