UN "Human Rights" Council Adopts Resolution Calling for Israel to Give Genocidal Assad Regime Control Over the Golan

The UN's top human rights body, the Human Rights Council, concluded the final day of its main annual session on March 24, 2017 by adopting a resolution calling on Israel to end "repressive measures" - such as granting Israeli citizenship - to Arabs living in the Golan in areas claimed by Syria. It was one of 5 anti-Israel resolutions adopted in a single day. By comparison, only one resolution was adopted by the Council against Syria, where hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been slaughtered.

The resolution against Israel, submitted by Pakistan on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, was adopted by the UN Human Rights Council by a vote of 26 in favor (Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Burundi, China, Cote D'Ivoire, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nigeria, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela), 3 against (Togo, United Kingdom, United States), 18 abstentions (Albania, Belgium, Botswana, Congo, Croatia, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Latvia, Netherlands, Panama, Paraguay, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Rwanda, Slovenia, Switzerland).

The resolution includes the following:

"The Human Rights Council,
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Reaffirming once more the illegality of the decision by Israel of 14 December 1981 to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the occupied Syrian Golan, which has resulted in the effective annexation of that territory,
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1. Calls upon Israel, the occupying Power, to comply with the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, the Security Council and the Human Rights Council, in particular Security Council resolution 497 (1981), in which the Council decided, inter alia, that the decision of Israel to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the occupied Syrian Golan was null and void and without international legal effect, and demanded that Israel rescind forthwith its decision;
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3. Further calls upon Israel to desist from imposing Israeli citizenship and Israeli identity cards on the Syrian citizens in the occupied Syrian Golan, and to desist from its repressive measures against them and from all other practices that obstruct the enjoyment of their fundamental rights and their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, some of which are mentioned in the report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories;"