Wiesenthal Center To Present Northern Israel’s Case To UN Human Rights Body

September 18, 2006

WHAT:  WIESENTHAL CENTER TO PRESENT NORTHERN ISRAEL’S CASE TO UN HUMAN RIGHTS BODY
WHERE: UNCA Library, Geneva
WHEN:  Tuesday, 19 September 2006 at 11:30 AM

The Simon Wiesenthal Center, an accredited NGO at the United Nations, is leading a senior delegation to Geneva on September 18-19, to coincide with the opening of the UN Human Rights Council’s meeting to demand that the targeting of Northern Israel’s civilian population and infrastructure be fully investigated and acted upon. Center officials will brief the press on this issue at a news briefing at the UNCA Library, Geneva on Tuesday, 19 September, at 11:30 am.
 
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the Center’s Associate Dean of the leading Jewish human rights NGO collected evidence of such attacks. “It is unacceptable that the most senior international human rights body has thus far treated the vicious war against Israel’s civilians launched by Hezbollah as an attack by the Jewish state. We will present the evidence the world wants to forget,” stated Cooper.  “The Wiesenthal Center is proud that the mayor of Ma’alot and a senior official of the Nahariya hospital will join our meetings with Human Rights Council chief Louise Arbour and ambassadors of member countries of the Council to demand that the targeting of Israel’s civilians be investigated for violations of the Geneva Convention,” he added.

Speaking at the briefing will be: Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Wiesenthal Center; Dr. Shimon Samuels, the Wiesenthal Center’s Director for International Relations; Mr. Shlomo Bohbot, Mayor of Ma'alot-Tarshiha, a joint Jewish-Arab municipality in the Galillee; Dr. Nor Loborat, Nahariya Hospital.
For more information, please contact Rabbi Abraham Cooper at +310.210.9750 or Dr. Shimon Samuels at --+33.609.77.01.58.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center is one of the largest international Jewish human rights organizations with over 400,000 member families in the United States. It is an NGO at international agencies including the United Nations, UNESCO, the OSCE, and the Council of Europe.