Human rights course in Geneva taught by anti-Israel UN commissioner

The course will focus on holding Member States accountable on human rights, and will include “anecdotes from the experience of the lecturers”

October 21, 2022 15:49

Paris, FRANCE: Miloon Kothari, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing attends a press conference, 29 January 2007 in Paris, at the "Ministry of Crisis Housing", based in a building occupied since the end of December 2006 by three associations: MACAQ (Movement for Cultural and Artistic District Activities), Black Thursday and DAL (Right For a House). Kothari, who was in the capital to attend an OCDE meeting, prolonged his visit non officially to "better understand", he said, the housing situation in France. AFP PHOTO BERTRAND GUAY (Photo credit should read BERTRAND GUAY/AFP via Getty Images)

ByDaniel Ben-David

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An academy based in Geneva is offering a training course on human rights taught by Miloon Kothari, who made headlines earlier this year for saying social media was largely controlled by the “Jewish lobby”.

During the same interview, Mr Kothari, who is a member of the UN’s Commission of Inquiry investigating alleged human rights violations in Israel, also accused the state of apartheid, and questioned its right to UN membership.

Mr Kothari’s comments caused outcry in Israel, with Prime Minister Yair Lapid accusing the commission of anti-Israel bias and calling on the UN to disband the commission entirely.

His remarks were also condemned by more than 20 countries and by the president of the UN Human Rights Council, Federico Villegas.

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