UN to blacklist Israeli firms operating beyond Green Line

In the UN the Israel bashing game goes on and on. Richard Falk continues his "blame Israel for everything" campaign and now wants the Human Rights Council to ban doing business with YIsraeli companies in Judea and Samaria. The trouble is he has not read the regulations controlling the activities of the UNHRC

From Yisrael Hayom the following letter sets out the continuing double standards and anti-Israel obsession in the UN 

The United Nations Human Rights Council is reportedly working on a "blacklist" of Israeli companies operating beyond the Green Line with aim of declaring them illegal.
The list, an initiative prompted by the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, is scheduled to be released in March, but a source familiar with the issue told Israel Hayom Monday it may only come out in June.

The move reportedly aims to bar the presence of any Israeli company beyond the Green Line. If adopted, the list could deem even private security firms protecting Israelis in Judea and Samaria from terrorist organizations, as illegal.

The list is said to be the brainchild of known BDS activist Richard Falk, formerly the U.N.'s special rapporteur on Palestinian human rights. Falk first came up with the idea for the blacklist six years ago, while in office, and he has been strongly advocating for it ever since, this time with the support of several Arab U.N. members.

In an effort to thwart this initiative, NGO Monitor, a watchdog group that promotes greater transparency among foreign-funded Israeli nongovernmental organizations, has recently sent the Human Rights Council a position paper explaining that such a list would be a violation of international law and the UNHRC's own guidelines against discrimination based on national origin, arguing that as no such blacklists exist for any other conflict zone in the world, it would in effect be targeting Jewish-owned businesses.

"The U.N. Human Rights Council discriminates against Israel by applying double standards to international law," the position paper noted.

"The list may also harm companies conducting business with Israel, which is consistent with the ultimate goal of [the BDS movement], which is isolating and attacking the State of Israel and undermine the Jewish people's right to self-determination."

NGO Monitor's legal adviser Anne Herzberg called the initiative "another chapter in the U.N.'s double standards and long and shameful, anti-Israel obsession."