For the truth on the Gaza flotilla, don’t look to the UN Human Rights Council

Jonathan Kay:

“A report by three U.N.-appointed human rights experts Wednesday said that Israeli forces violated international law when they raided a Gaza-bound aid flotilla killing nine activists earlier this year.” With these words did a Toronto-area newspaper lead off its report on the international community’s latest ritual excoriation of Israel. Only later in the article does one learn that these “experts” has been commissioned by the UN Human Rights Council, a discredited sham that is dominated by brutal rogue dictatorships.

In fact, recent days have brought to light some interesting new information about the flotilla raid. But it doesn’t come to us from the UN. Rather, it comes from an independent Turkish book author who’s confirmed that the flotilla leaders all along planned to instigate violence against the Israelis. Whatever the conclusions of the UN’s kangaroo inquiry, it is these anti-Israeli ringleaders who ultimately bear responsibility for the deaths that took place that day.

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