Jewish groups call on Canada to condemn UNHRC nomination [Video]

Jewish groups are calling on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to condemn the UN Human Rights Council’s nomination of anti-Israel University of Western Ontario law professor Stanley Michael Lynk to the position of special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories.

A letter sent out by UNHRC president Choi Kyonglim March 23 proposed that Lynk be appointed to the position. The council is expected to accept the nomination today without a vote.

Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, condemned the decision due to what he describes as Lynk’s bias regarding the Israel-Palestinian conflict, calling it a “travesty of justice and a breach of the world body’s own rules.”

UN Watch did welcome, however, the council’s rejection of U.K. professor Penny Green, who, according to Neuer, has an even more radical and biased approach to Israel than Lynk.

“Someone who accuses Israel of ‘apartheid’ and openly seeks to dismantle the Jewish state is neither impartial nor objective. We …