By its very nature, the job of “special rapporteur” to the United Nations Human Rights Council in the Palestinian territories is rigged against Israel. That person is charged with investigating Israel's violations of international laws — not the abuses by the Palestinian Authority or Hamas.
So naturally the job went to a Canadian academic regardless of his leadership role on behalf of Palestinian groups and his inflammatory rhetoric about Israel, according to the U.N.-monitoring group U.N. Watch.
Law professor Michael Lynk has accused Israel of “apartheid” and has sought to dismantle the Jewish state, according to Hillel Neuer, executive director of U.N. Watch. Mr. Lynk disputed the anti-Israel allegations and told The Canadian Press that his comments have been taken out of context. Yet he insisted that some of his so-called “radical views” are, in his opinion, mainstream and shared by respected organizations. Really?
Just days after 9/11, Mr. Lynk blamed the attacks on “global inequalities” and “disregard by western nations for the international rule of law,” U.N. Watch said.
The only consolation Lynk brings to his United Nations post is the fact that he's actually less inflammatory than another job applicant, a radical left-wing British professor, Mr. Neuer said.
What it comes to filling jobs affiliated with the abominable U.N. Human Rights Council, it must be tough to find anyone who isn't poisoned by personal biases shared by the council's reprobates.
