Pro-Israel Brits whip WHO for ‘anti-Israel’ resolution

The British Conservative Friends of Israel group has condemned the World Health organization for a resolution calling to investigate alleged health rights abuses by Israel against Palestinians and Syrians.

Sir Eric Pickles and Lord Stuart Polak of the CFI accuse the WHO of attempting to delegitimize Israel with the resolution.

“It is shameful that the World Health Organisation has yet again singled out Israel above any other country in the world, including those with grave human rights records,” the two say in a statement.

The WHO resolution, passed Tuesday, commissions a delegation to investigate and report on “the health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory” and in “the occupied Syrian Golan,” and to place it on the agenda at next year’s meeting.

The reports are to focus on “the impact of prolonged occupation and human rights violations on mental, physical and environmental health.”

The United Kingdom, France, Germany were among 107 countries that voted for the proposal during this week’s gathering in Geneva. Eight countries voted against the resolution and eight abstained, while 58 other countries taking part in the assembly were absent for the vote.

“The UK’s support for this politically motivated attempt to delegitimize the world’s only Jewish state is deeply worrying,” Pickles and Polak say.

— with Raoul Wootliff