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Human rights expert blasts
Congress, U.N. for failures
by Mitch Earle
Special to The Southern Israelite
If there were a theme for the
preamble to the United Nations
Charter on human rights it would
have been “Never Again,” yet the
U.N. failed to respond to the Holo
caust, a renowned human rights
scholar said in Atlanta recently.
Speaking to a receptive Emory
audience on Sept. 16, Dr. William
Korey also blasted the United States
Congress for failing to ratify the
Genocide Treaty. The U.S. did not
become a “party to the contract”
until Feb. 19 of this year. For 37
years, “it was embarrassing,” Korey
intoned.
U.N. inaction was not limited to
the Holocaust, the U.N. observer
noted. Massacres of Bengales,
Cambodians, Chinese, Ugandan
Christians and Iraqi Kurds were
also not dealt with by the United
Nations. Today, the Iritrians in
Ethiopia and the East Timorese in
Indonesia continue to be abused,
but these concerns are not on the
U.N. agenda, said Korey.
One problem, he said, is that 80
countries contribute as much finan
cial support to the U.N. as does the
United States. At least 75 percent
of the country members are either
authoritarian, totalitarian, dicta
torships or monarchies. “The crisis
today at the U.N. will not be over
come until...the asymetrical char
acter of the U.N. is corrected.”
Earlier in the day on which he
spoke, the U.N. General Assembly
opened its 41st session and elected
the foreign minister of Bangladesh,
Humayun Rasheed Choudhury, to
preside during this term.
Korey is the former chairman of
the Conference of U.N. Represen
tatives, UNA-USA. He also chaired
the Observer programs, World As
sembly on Human Rights, and
later, held consulate status as the
chairman of the Human Rights
Committee of the Conference of
NGO Representatives.
He became a Jewish “first” when
he served as guest scholar at the
Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars, a Washington
“think tank.”
Turning from the inability of the
U.N. to the horror of the Holo
caust, Korey asserted that compla
cency filled the vacuum of the post-
Holocaust era. The feeling of secu
rity that such an atrocity would
never happen again allowed for a
resurgence of anti-Semitism and
even the propaganda that the Holo
caust was a figment of Zionist
imagination.
“It was disreputable to talk
about it,” Korey observed.
The recent election of Kurt
Waldheim and the rise of the Free
dom Party in Austria signify the
degree to which people have not
bothered to be concerned with the
memory of the Holocaust.
“[Waldheim] was the intelligence
officer of a major German army
group whose job it was to...liqui
date a Jewish community in Greece,”
Korey reminded the audience.
The bombing of an Istanbul
synagogue earlier this month and
other terrorist assaults in Paris,
Rome, Vienna and Brussels are
able to occur by virtue of renewed
anti-Semitism, Korey said.
This resurgence was legitimized
by the Nov. 10, 1975, U.N. declara
tion which defined Zionism as a
form of racism, Korey said. Like
Orwellian Newspeak, “Zionism was
inverted and corrupted. Thought
itself was subverted.”
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This U.N. equation of Zionism
with Jews encouraged terrorists. It
allowed for the passengers of a
hijacked TWA jet to be divided,
“Jews to the right, others to the
left,” Korey said.
Although terrorist acts such as
the killing of Leon Klinghoffer
aboard the Achille Lauro may have
its roots in anti-Semitism, terror
ism against Jews strikes against
virtually the entire civilized world,
he added.
The solution? Restore the Holo
caust to everyday consciousness.
The Nazi death camps have taught
us that the price of silence is death,
Korey entreated. “There’s you and
me and people who cannot, must
not, be silent.”
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