Baroness Ruth Deech and six other peers have warned that an upcoming UN Human Rights Council inquiry on the conflict with the Palestinians would “open the door to all the enemies of Israel.”
The open-ended probe, set up last year after May's 11-day war and expected to be published in June, is investigating alleged human rights law violations and “all underlying root causes of recurrent tensions”.
Israeli officials are reportedly concerned the report could label the country an apartheid state.
In a fiery submission to the inquiry, the peers say: “Rather than serving as an impartial investigatory platform and as a conflict mediator, the United Nations and its agencies have instead exacerbated the tensions fuelling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through deep-seated anti-Israel bias and its inculcation of anti-peace narratives.”
