The UN Human Rights Council has appointed anti-Israel/anti-West Canadian law professor Stanley Michael Lynk, of Western University in London, Ontario, to the position of “Special Rapporteur on Palestinian territories.” This so-called job was created in 1993 “to investigate Israel’s violations of the principles and bases of international law,” and it has been described by the Jerusalem Post as “an integral part of the systematic bias toward Israel that plagues almost every corner of the UN,” and also as “the only position that never expires.”
Lynk brings to the UN Human Rights Council an extensive history of anti-Israel activism. He has taken a leadership role in Arab lobby groups, including CEPAL (Canadian-Palestinian Educational Exchange), for which he sits on their advisory board. CEPAL promotes Israel Apartheid Week and Boycott and Divestment drives, calls for Israel’s prosecution for “war crimes,” and has featured the infamous Norm Finkelstein at one of its conferences. Finkelstein has been quoted in Haaretz for the bizarre statements he has made: that “nobody really defends Israel anymore” and “if you go on college campuses, there are some Hillel faithfuls who are bringing an IDF soldier to try to explain that not all IDF soldiers are war criminals.” He also declares that Israel has “lost the battle for public opinion” and arrogantly predicts that “once support for Israeli policy becomes widely unacceptable in the United States, the ‘self-designated voices for Israel,’ as he calls them, will quickly drop out.” Finkelstein once justified Palestinian violence, stating that “international law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.”
In accordance with the aggressive anti-Semitic and anti-Israel activism that emanates from CEPAL, UN Watch reported that Michael Lynk has supported the elimination of Israel in “One State” conferences and has stated odiously that “the solution” dates back to 1948, to which he refers as “the start of ethnic cleansing” by Israel when it was founded. One need only take a glance back in history to recognize that the British Partition Plan favored the Arabs in designating a small strip of land to Israel, in its aim to create independent Arab and Jewish States. Yet Israel was attacked by five Arab States seeking its obliteration from its birth, and is still forced to defend itself against annihilation and terrorist attacks against its citizens today.
Lynk’s discreditable and influential appointment directly empowers his ambitions to delegitimize Israel and ultimately to aid Israel’s enemies, which seek to destroy it. Yet Lynk’s menacing views do not stop at unjustifiably bashing Israel — the only country that exemplifies human rights in the Middle East. UN Watch also reported that Lynk blamed the 9/11 attacks on Western nations, prompting it to publish in a statement referring to Brussels: “one day after Islamists murdered and maimed hundreds in the heart of Europe, the UN’s appointment of someone who instinctively blames such attacks on the alleged crimes of Western nations sends absolutely the worst message, at the worst time.”
Among the UN Human Rights Council are some of the basest human rights abusers: Saudi Arabia (which still stones women and sanctions beheadings and cutting off of hands), Cuba (which imposes arbitrary imprisonments, extrajudicial executions, and limits on freedom of expression), China (which enforces detention without trial, surveillance, house arrests, and imprisonment of human rights defenders), Nigeria (plagued by inter-communal conflict, abuses and murder of Christians and minorities in the north by the jihadist group Boko Haram and human rights violations by the Nigerian security forces).
On the heels of the Lynk appointment came further bad news, that the UN Human Rights Council had voted in favor of creating a “blacklist” of companies operating in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. The motion – which no countries voted against — was put forward by the Palestinian Authority and Arab states. European Union nations opposed the creation of the list, but yet they did not vote against the resolution, they only abstained. In response to the vote, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu blasted the outcome, saying that the UN Security Council “has turned into an anti-Israel circus, which attacks the only democracy in the Middle East and ignores the blatant violations of Iran, Syria and North Korea.”
Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion recently announced a contribution of $15 million to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and stated that Canada wants to re-engage with it as part of the Liberal government’s broader embrace of the United Nations. A spokesman for Dion explained that while Canada recognizes the shortcomings of the council, it also has goals (clearly unrealistic) of engaging in it directly in hopes to improve it.
The appointment of Professor Lynk by the U.N. Human Rights Council is a blatant step in the wrong direction. B’nai Brith Canada declared that Lynk has assumed “the mantle of chief propagandist for some of the world’s worst human rights violators.” The group also pointed out Lynk’s “long history of comparing Israel to the Nazis and promoting anti-Israel campaigns,” adding that the Human Rights Council “has demonstrated its intent to continue its ongoing agenda of demonizing the world’s only Jewish state.” The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre for Holocaust Studies, meanwhile, is calling on the Canadian government to denounce Lynk’s appointment and to withdraw its funding.
Christine Williams is an award-winning broadcast journalist; advisor to Canada’s Office of Religious Freedoms; and Public Affairs/Media Consultant, International Christian Embassy Jerusalem–Canada.

Loison Helmer says
Trust me as a Canadian many of us are disgusted with the Trudeau government and their attitude toward Israel. It is this government that is speaking not the Canadian people. Only 39 percent of the electorate voted for this politically correct, green,left leaning weak government. His father thought Fidel Castro was the best thing since sliced bread so you now know where his ideas come from. He has surrounded himself with many dubious people including Omar Alghabra who is a Palestinian and tried to get sharia law in Canada. He himself is a useful tool for many radicals and their ideas including his brother who is a lover of Iran.
Angemon says
Not to investigate whether or not they occurred – that they occurred was assumed.
International law does not allow, for example, baby-murdering.
Israel has got to be the worst ethnic cleansers ever, seeing how the “Palestinians” are thriving and increasing in number. Also, wasn’t the “Black September” in Jordan an attempted ethnic cleansing? If not, why?
History and facts don’t matter for the anti-Israeli crowd. My theory is that they’re not mentally suited to process anything other than small sound-bites, such as “Bush lied, people died” or “Israel is an apartheid state”, or “Baaaaa!!!”.
Indeed.
Shame on them.
And he’s right, of course.
Pieter.v says
The UN has allways been a circus , the officials not worth the money they get paid( note not salaries) only people who work get paid salaries.
TamIAm says
“..”Michael Lynk has supported the elimination of Israel in “One State” conferences and has stated odiously that “the solution” dates back to 1948, to which he refers as “the start of ethnic cleansing” by Israel when it was founded.”
Israel has got to be the worst ethnic cleansers ever, seeing how the “Palestinians” are thriving and increasing in number. Also, wasn’t the “Black September” in Jordan an attempted ethnic cleansing? If not, why?..”
So true!
mortimer says
Stanley Michael Lynk reminds me of the Wannsee Conference members, most of whom had doctorates in law. They not only ignored the laws that worked against Nazism, but actively subverted the law to follow a fanatical agenda of cruelty.
The Kingdom of Jordan already owns 75% of the Palestine Mandate. That should be enough.
The Koran endorses Israel as a homeland for Jews. Allah commands Jews ‘Dwell in the Land (of Israel).’
Dean says
Stanley Michael Lynk and his co-haters are now observing the European experience very closely because they (and supporters in the Liberal Party of Canada) will have to double their efforts to demonize Israel and Jews if they want to shield the population from the truth that there is indeed a war launched against the West by islamists.
The whole objective of Islamists and their leftist spokespeople is to hide the truth about jihad, exaggerate and distort the plight of “Palestinians” (and hide the crucial fact that are the cause of their own misfortunes), and to demonize Israel as the universal Jew (because direct anti-Semitism is no longer the best propaganda choice in these times of political correctness).
There must be a secret registry of like-minded professionals that governments and groups now refer to when it comes to staffing and handing out perks to Jew-hating organizations such as the UN Human Rights Council. Lynk is surely a Soros-approved leftist willing to replace the Western system with anarchy (Islamist anarchy works fine for the leftist hate mongers – think of that the next time a bomb goes off in your city).
Abu Nudnik says
Not surprising, coming from the office of Jizm Trudeau. He was his father’s son, nothing more.
TamIAm says
Thank-you, Christine Williams, for this expose. Our new radical Leftist government in Canada is disgusting!
alyn21 says
This is classic Canadian Liberalism. These are the descendants of the same people who said that none was too many in World War 2 when Jews needed a refuge from Nazi terror.
Nothing new here. But I trust that Israel will survive in spite of nitwits like Trudeau and his muslim loving comrades.
If anything the activities of people like this prove the need for a Jewish state.
Darryl Kerney says
so, criticise Israel for its actions taken in its own defence, have they not noticed it is a tiny “island” of sanity in the middle of a vast “ocean” of barbaric islamic “nations” that ALL want to see its annihilation ???
it’s like blaming a small group of normally law abiding citizens for fighting a bit “dirty” when threatened by a far bigger gang of thugs,
only a moron would condemn them.
our Canadian Liberals lead by Trudeau and Dion are just such morons.
the UN has many islamic dictatorships as members, all of whom have openly and repeatedly expressed their strong desire to exterminate the jews and many which actually DENY the Holocaust even happened, but would love to carry out their own upon Israel, the ONLY Democracy and civilized State in all of the M.E. and North Africa.
as a Canadian i am disgusted with our liberal gov’t in every way,
they DENY we are even at war with ISIS, and they are giving away Billions of our tax dollars, and they have just admitted they will run a deficit 3 TIMES bigger than they campaigned on, and bring in far more “refugees” than said they would, all at our expense and peril.
they are LYING TRAITOROUS IDIOTS who will bring great harm to this country,
they campaigned on bringing “Sunny Ways”,
but in reality it will be SUNNI WAYS.
Darryl Kerney says
…..they campaigned on bringing “Sunny Ways”,
but in reality it will be SUNNI WAYS, ALONG WITH SOME SHIA WAYS to “balance” the multicultural destruction of Canada.
Richard Paulsen says
Muslim countries have to take the full responsibility for their countries. Instead of growing worse all the time growing their populations while access to water is down under minimum required per capita like in MENA and the Palestine.
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Richard Paulsen says
Yes, stop all help. Just growing worse. Obviously pointless.
Strange escaping to Europe. Noone in the other direction.
Judi says
I got into an e-mail argument with Norman Finkelstein last year. After listening to one of his anti-Semitic rants on Al Jazeera, I wrote to him in disgust saying that as a fellow Jew, I was disgusted with his attitude towards Israel. He had the temerity to write back saying that his father (of blessed memory) was a holocaust survivor. I wrote back saying that would be all the more reason to support Israel. The reply I received was that I was a “yenta” and that I should buy his new book!! You can’t fix stupid!
Richard Paulsen says
Allowing girls and women education and jobs is a must for arabstates in order to develope. Looking forward to expereince. Instead of responsible governments escaping from their responsibility.
Noone else can be blamed If population grow more than a country can supply it with water and food.
Rich arabstates should take care of eachother instead of hating others.
JamesHalifax says
We shouldn’t be surprised Mr. Lynk was chosen. He has the exact same views as the current Prime Minister’s brother.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the non-PM trudeau made the recommendation to his equally Jew hating buds at the UN.