India abstained within the U.N. Common Meeting on a decision that requested the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice for its opinion on the authorized penalties of Israel’s “extended occupation” and annexation of the Palestinian territory.
The draft decision ‘Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian folks within the Occupied Palestinian Territory, together with East Jerusalem’ was adopted by a recorded vote on Friday, with 87 votes in favour, 26 in opposition to and 53 abstentions, together with by India.
The decision determined to request the UN’s highest judicial physique to “render an advisory opinion” on “what are the authorized penalties arising from the continued violation by Israel of the best of the Palestinian folks to self-determination, from its extended occupation, settlement and annexation of the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, together with measures geared toward altering the demographic composition, character and standing of the Holy Metropolis of Jerusalem, and from its adoption of associated discriminatory laws and measures.”
It additionally requested the Meeting “how do the insurance policies and practices of Israel… have an effect on the authorized standing of the occupation, and what are the authorized penalties that come up for all States and the United Nations from this standing?”
The U.S. and Israel voted in opposition to the decision whereas Brazil, Japan, Myanmar, and France have been amongst people who abstained.
Earlier than the vote, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan mentioned that the “outrageous decision” calling for the advisory opinion of the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice is a “ethical stain on the U.N. and each nation that helps it. No worldwide physique can determine that the Jewish individuals are “occupiers” in their very own homeland. Any determination from a judicial physique which receives its mandate from the morally bankrupt and politicised UN is totally illegitimate.”
Mr. Erdan added that the choice to carry a vote that offers with Israel on Shabbat is one other instance of the “ethical decay” of the U.N., which prevents Israel’s place from being heard in a vote whose outcomes are predetermined.
He added that on the U.N. Common Meeting Excessive-Stage Week in September 2021, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas introduced in his remarks that if Israel didn’t withdraw to the 1967 traces inside a 12 months, the Palestinians would flip to The Hague. “At the moment’s vote is the realisation of Abbas’s ultimatum,” he mentioned.
Following the vote, World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder mentioned in an announcement that the vote on the United Nations exemplifies an ongoing sample of bias in opposition to Israel, and “we applaud these 26 nations, together with america, who voted in opposition to this shameful decision that seeks to isolate and demonise the Jewish state.”
Lauder additional mentioned the “Measure is a direct outgrowth of the biased Fee of Inquiry on Israel, whose commissioners have made anti-semitic feedback and who’ve been unabashed critics of Israel. Referral of this problem to the ICJ is yet one more barrier to dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians.”
He added that peace within the area can solely be negotiated by the 2 sides immediately concerned.”
World Jewish Congress is a world organisation representing Jewish communities in additional than 100 nations to governments, parliaments and worldwide organizations.
