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UN researcher reports UN session on Israel that never happened
https://unwatch.org/al-jazeera-reports-on-un-session-that-never-happened
Nicola Perugini, a UN researcher in the Palestinian territories for UNESCO and UNIFEM (the UN women’s fund), and who has academic positions at Bard College’s Al Quds program and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, should be removed from his UN and scholarly posts on grounds of utter incompetence.
His Feb. 22 Al Jazaeera article on the latest UNHRC report on Israeli settlements tells us all about a session in January which, in fact, never took place:
- “At the end of January, the 22nd session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) focused on the ‘Human rights situation in Palestine and other Arab territories’…”
- “The session welcomed a report produced by an international fact-finding mission on the implications of the Israeli settlements…”
- “The session was a new chapter in the protracted chain of condemnations issued by international bodies against Israel’s violations of human rights and international law…”
- Israel “preemptively isolated itself by boycotting this UNHRC session…”
- “[T]he session was not good publicity for Israel…”
- “[T]he fact that Israel boycotted this 22nd session should not surprise us. Tactics are also a weapon of the state, not merely a weapon of the weak.”
Except Perugini’s session could not have focused on anything, welcomed any report, opened any chapter, been boycotted by anyone, or created any bad publicity for Israel, for the simple reason that it never existed.
Perugini, the expert consultant and researcher in the Palestinian territories for two major UN agencies — including for the UNESCO-funded “Decolonizing Architecture” project that imagines various ways to take apart Israeli settlements — appears to have conflated three completely different things into one giant mush that is a figment of his imagination: (a) the settlements report itself; (b) an unrelated Universal Periodic Review meeting on Israel; (c) and the actual 22nd session of the UNHRC, which begins on Monday, Feb. 25.
The incident underscores the shoddy scholarship and disregard for facts that characterizes much of the anti-Israel propaganda produced by many of the researchers who write UN reports on Israel, including the Goldstone Report.
Will UNESCO and UNIFEM disclose which Palestinian matters have been handled by Perugini? Are they in the least troubled by his politicization and incompetence?
Is this the kind of shoddy scholarship Bard College is trying to promote through its Palestinian summer school?
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NICOLA PERUGINI ON TWITTER 2020
Nicola Perugini, in May 2020, he shows a screenshot of a portion of article [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/opinion/contributors/annexing-west-bank-israel-palestinians.html]:
"Annexing the West Bank Would Hurt Israel"
By Daniel Pipes
May 7, 2020
[...] Sixth, annexation would be likely to make more Palestinians eligible to become citizens of Israel. That would be a profound mistake, since its Arab citizens constitute what I believe is the ultimate enemy of Israel’s status as a Jewish state, the one that will still be standing after the threats posed by Iran and Gaza have been dealt with. Citizens of Israel, unlike external enemies, cannot be defeated. Their allegiance must be won over, and the larger their number, the harder that becomes.
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He highlights the words "That would be a profound mistake, since its Arab citizens constitute what I believe is the ultimate enemy of Israel’s status as a Jewish state"... and brands it "racist."
Now, clearly he erred in his emotional anti Israel usual tirade. Pipes obviously didn't talk about Arabs being a "threat" per se, or as propagandists try to sound the "bad arabs" often false alarm.. but about the fact of contradicting the state's make up of the population.
But it shows a distorted fanatic anti Israel. An inciter.
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WELL, HERE ARE SOME MORE "BEAUTIES", JUST FROM 2020:
July 1:
RETWEETED A RADICAL'S TWEET CALLING EVICTION OF ONE SINGLE HOME OF AN ARAB WHO COULDN'T PROVE HIS OWNERSHIP AS "ETHNIC CLEANSING" (NEVERMIND THE MASSIVE EVICTION BY ISRAELI GOVT OF JEWS IN SUCH CASES)
Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין (@MairavZ) Tweeted:
This is ethnic cleansing. I’m disgusted and ashamed. https://t.co/jE7Jyyz41n https://twitter.com/MairavZ/status/1278334365018161158?s=20
[From the origonal article quoted:
The judges said in their decision that the family had failed to prove that it owns the building.]
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May 15:
NO PEACE TILL ALL ARE "RETURNED". .
Nicola Perugini (@PeruginiNic) Tweeted:
No return of the Palestinian refugees to their homeland, no peace. #Nakba72 https://t.co/1ahUBXdtOu https://twitter.com/PeruginiNic/status/1261213194502225921?s=20
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Mar. 11:
ANGRY THAT ISRAELI-ARAB CITIZENS OF ISRAEL ARE CALLED JUST THAT... CALLS IT "ERASING"...
Nicola Perugini (@PeruginiNic) Tweeted:
Settler colonial human rights: the US State Department just issued a “global human rights report” in which it erases Palestinians from East Jerusalem. https://t.co/Z2EVxcyeiN https://twitter.com/PeruginiNic/status/1237810608055169030?s=20
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Feb.13:
CALLS SETTLEMENTS A "WAR CRIME"
Nicola Perugini (@PeruginiNic) Tweeted:
Dear @eDreams, @opodo, @AirbnbHelp, @bookingcom, the United Nations says that you are providing services which are crucial to the perpetration of human rights violations and war crimes (illegal settlements in occupied territories). Can you please explain? https://t.co/RRhtJF5zmV https://twitter.com/PeruginiNic/status/1227907979221065735?s=20
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He authored a "book" on human shields together with infamous Neve Gordon, whose "wonderful" articles appeared on neo nazi sites and has called in 2009 to boycott Israel and intimidated student who criticized his anti Jewish incitement in 2007: [https://israelbehindthenews.com/2009/08/25/studying-with-prof-neve-gordon-at-the-university-of-michigan/]
An Israeli student in the large class raised his hand and told Gordon that he was offended by his phraseology and said Gordon was bordering on anti-Semitism by deeming these roads “Jewish roads.” The student described for the class the complete freedom of movement of Israeli Arabs (Arabs with Israeli citizenship) on Israeli roads inside Israel and inside the West Bank. Therefore by calling the roads “Jewish” and not Israeli Gordon was being anti-Semitic. Gordon again simply disregarded the challenge to his biased teaching and appeared irritated.
The same Israeli student that challenged Gordon received a terse email after class that same day from Gordon requesting that the student come see him at his office at an appointment two days later. The student arrived at Gordon’s office and was surprised to see his Graduate Student Instructor (who directly grades the student) present as well. The student cordially greeted Gordon in Hebrew but did not receive the same warm greeting in return.
Gordon then proceeded to berate the student for publicly embarrassing and offending him during class. He belittled the student by telling him that he (Gordon) had been teaching for longer than the student20had been alive and that he had never been embarrassed and offended like that before. Behind closed doors, intimidated by his professor yelling at him, and in the presence of the person who decides his grade, the student quickly apologized and hoped the matter was put to rest. Much to the student’s dismay, in the next lecture Gordon attempted to clear his name and denounced the student’s challenging questions as unfair and unfounded, while publicly humiliating the student. .
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