Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s organization, This World: The Values Network launches a full-page advertising campaign against the appointment of William Schabas to head the UN commission to investigate Israel’s operations in Gaza.
According to statement released by the organization, orders have been placed with The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Guardian and the London Times in Britain, as well as online outlets.
The ad demands that the UN remove Schabas, and instead investigate the government of Syria, ISIS, and Hamas.
“Schabas remains a steadfast friend of Iran and its genocidal former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sponsoring conferences in Tehran with organizations tied to the fundamentalist, anti-Semitic regime in Iran that demands the annihilation of Israel,” reads the ad. “The UN’s appointment of Schabas is just the most recent symptom of the organization’s well-documented anti-Israel bias.
“The UN Gaza commission is a kangaroo court with the sole purpose of demonizing Israel,” it continues. “Schabas frequently says ‘Israel gets off light’ at the UN and claims that Hamas – the genocidal, anti-Semitic tyrant of Gaza, which uses Palestinian children as human shields – is not a terrorist organization at all. In fact, Schabas refuses to say whether he will investigate Hamas’ actions at all.”
A new ad from Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s organization, This World: The Values Network, against the appointment of William Schabas at the head of the UN commission investigating Israeli conduct during the Gaza conflict (photo credit: This World)
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