as the United Nations in Geneva debates the Pillay Report, the controversial new document will come under scrutiny by a panel of renowned experts at a UN Watch event to be held on the sidelines of the Human Rights Council, to be streamed live here on this page.
The Pillay Report, released this week, offers a blueprint of what is to come from the U.N. Commission of Inquiry, chaired by Navi Pillay, which was granted a perpetual mandate to report annually in Geneva and New York on alleged war crimes and discrimination in wake of last year’s Hamas-Israel war.
The report turns a blind eye to Palestinian terrorism and embraces the Hamas narrative that Israel is the root cause of all conflict.
Many expected a biased report given that commission chair Navi Pillay has a record of lobbying governments to ‘sanction apartheid Israel’. In addition, she declared Israel guilty in the very conflict of last year that she is meant to investigate. To read UN Watch’s request for Navi Pillay to recuse herself, click here.
The Pillay Report Under Scrutiny - UN Watch Side Event
United Nations, Geneva, June 13, 2002
10:00 AM: International Legal and Military Experts on the 2021 Hamas-Israel War
 | Chair: Hillel Neuer Executive Director of United Nations Watch, international lawyer, human rights activist. |
 | Colonel Richard Kemp Former Commander of British Forces in Afghanistan, counter-terrorism expert, author. |
 | Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Corn Distinguished Professor of National Security Law, South Texas College of Law. |
11:30 AM: Root Causes of the Conflict & Allegations of Systematic Discrimination
 | Yoseph Haddad Israeli Arab human rights activist, CEO of Together - Vouch For Each Other. |
 | Anne Herzberg Human rights lawyer, author, NGO Monitor Legal Advisor and UN Representative. |
 | Olga Meshoe Washington South African attorney and human rights activist. |
 | Einat Wilf Author of “War of Return,” former Member of Knesset, foreign policy advisor to Shimon Peres, consultant at McKinsey. |
