UN committee voices concern about rising Israeli hate speech against Palestinians

Oh wow, if they are concerned over the hate speech, wait until they find out what Israel has been doing with all of their missiles.

Aside from the atrocities that are happening, the discourse around this war is so emotionally draining.

It's not hard to find islamophobic hate speech in communities that support Israel, because there's plenty of people that conflate Hamas with normal Palestinians.

And it's not hard to find antisemitic hate speech in communities that support Palestine, because there's plenty of people that conflate the Israeli government with normal Jews.

dancing in the border and filming themselves in homemade hijabs wasting water to mock dying palestinians for weeks

the UN: ooh uhh i think they might be a be racist

Like seriously. You think what you see on Lemmy is bad but if you check out palestinian tiktok they're reposting Israeli influencers dancing in hijabs, painting their teeth black, and editing themselves being shelled, to a palestinian resistance song that's been remixed with pro Israeli lyrics.Its abhorrent.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

GENEVA, Oct 27 (Reuters) - A U.N. committee on racism voiced concern on Friday about a "sharp increase in racist hate speech and dehumanisation" directed at Palestinians by Israelis, including senior officials, since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks.

Since the start of the conflict there have been a growing number of reports of both antisemitic and Islamophobic incidents in places such as the United States and Britain.

The Geneva-based committee said it was "highly concerned" by recent comments including those made by senior Israeli officials, politicians and public figures and called for Israel to condemn hate speech and investigate and punish such acts.

The committee also repeated a past recommendation for Palestinian authorities to combat hate speech and incitement to violence.

Israel's diplomatic mission to the U.N. in Geneva said the committee's statement ignored surging antisemitism, including attacks on Jews and what it said were calls by protesters to murder them.

The U.N. committee is made up of 18 independent experts and tasked with monitoring compliance with a 1965 treaty against racism which Israel and Palestinian authorities have both ratified.

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The U.N. committee is made up of 18 independent experts and tasked with monitoring compliance with a 1965 treaty against racism which Israel and Palestinian authorities have both ratified.

It took me a while to actually track down the actual document. This article is about a published statement from CERD, who are a committee from the UNHRC.

• Press release
• Full statement

The statement is pretty one sided, starting from calling it the "Occupied Gaza Strip" and claiming that Israel has them under its "effective control". The only saving grace is one paragraph calling on Hamas and the PA to follow up on their recommendations from 2019:

19.c About the existence of hate speech, in particular hate speech directed against Israelis, which at times fuels anti-Semitism towards this group, in certain media outlets, in particular those controlled by Hamas, as well as on social media, in public officials’ statements and in school curricula and textbooks, which also fuels hatred and may incite violence (art. 4).