UN Taps Three Rabid Israel-Haters To Push ‘Genocide’ Smear

The United Nations Human Rights Council this week released a report accusing Israel of committing “genocide” in Gaza. But the report — like the group behind it — is dripping with anti-Israel bias.

Issued by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the report was authored by three of the UN’s most rabid anti-Israel ideologues. Navi Pillay, Miloon Kothari, and Chris Sidoti all have long records of vilifying Israel, legitimizing Hamas talking points, and pushing the antisemitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS).

The report is the latest example of hypocrisy from the UNHRC, which has long been accused of coddling the world’s worst human rights abusers while obsessively targeting the only democracy in the Middle East.

Let’s break it down.

Navi Pillay, the chair of the commission, has accused Israel of “collective punishment” and “targeting children”— all while saying little or nothing of Hamas’ use of civilians as human shields or the mass slaughter of Israeli innocents on October 7, 2023. She also supervised the virulently anti-Israel Goldstone Report, which was later rejected by its primary author, Justice Richard Goldstone, who explained in the Washington Post, “If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document.”

In 2010, her office refused to remove a monstrous antisemitic message on its website that falsely accused Israeli doctors of a racist conspiracy to steal Palestinian organs.

Miloon Kothari, condemned for his antisemitic remarks about “Jewish control” of social media — Pillay claimed his comments were “misquoted” — continues to peddle anti-Israel tropes with the full backing of the UN bureaucracy.

Chris Sidoti, a left-wing activist lawyer, serves on the advisory board of the Australian Centre for International Justice, which calls Israel a “settler-colonial apartheid regime” and supports the BDS movement, which seeks to economically and politically isolate Israel from existence.

These are the “independent investigators” tasked with assessing Israel’s conduct in Gaza.

The report’s conclusion that Israel is committing genocide was based not on legal rigor, but on a one-sided narrative that erases context, whitewashes Hamas terrorism, and accuses Israel of everything from starvation to sexual violence, even alleging that Israel is trying to “prevent births” among Palestinians.

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Danny Meron, flatly rejected the report as a “Hamas propaganda document,” saying it cherry-picked data to promote a false narrative designed to demonize and delegitimize the Jewish state.

“The report falsely accuses Israel of genocidal intent, an allegation it cannot substantiate,” Meron said. “It serves Hamas and its backers.”

Notably, the commission makes only a passing reference to the October 7 massacre, when Hamas terrorists slaughtered more than 1,200 Israelis in one of the most horrific attacks in modern Jewish history. Instead, it blames Israel for virtually every aspect of the conflict, even accusing it of violating Qatari sovereignty when striking Hamas leadership in Doha — as if Hamas officials deserve diplomatic immunity.

The timing of the report is no accident. All three commissioners — Pillay, Kothari, and Sidoti — resigned in July, with their departures taking effect in October 2025. The rush to publish this political hit job now, just weeks before they leave, is transparently an effort to dodge accountability as American sanctions loom.

Even under pressure, the UNHRC gave this commission an open-ended mandate — unique among all UN investigations — to focus only on Israel, not on Hamas atrocities or Palestinian terror networks. As Trump’s administration put it in 2018: “The UNHRC is a protective body for countries committing horrific human rights violations.”

China, Cuba, Eritrea, and Qatar all sit on the Council. But it’s Israel — the country rescuing hostages, warning civilians before strikes, and defending its citizens from terrorists — that gets called genocidal?

President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the UNHRC in 2018 — and again in 2025 — is looking more prescient by the day. In February, he slammed the UN’s human rights bodies as being “contrary to the interests of the United States while attacking our allies and propagating antisemitism.”

He wasn’t wrong. As UNRWA employees were revealed to have aided Hamas in the October 7 attacks, and as hostages reported being held in UN facilities, the same UN was busy preparing to lecture Israel about morality.

This report is the latest proof that the UN’s moral compass is not just broken, but actively spinning toward terror-supporting regimes.