Shurat haDin will petition the Israeli Supreme Court if Netanyahu does not
oppose the appointment of Egyptian anti-semite Farook Husseini to head
UNESCO.

Human rights organization Shurat ha Din (Israel Law Center) joins the
growing protest against the decision of the Israeli prime minister,
Binyamin Netanyahu, to withdraw his objection to the appointment of
Egyptian Culture Minister, Farook Husseini, to head UNESCO. The
organization says that it will petition the Israeli Supreme Court if
Netanyahu fails to challenge this outrageous appointment.

In a letter sent this morning to the prime minister's office, the
organization claims that Farook Husseini is a known anti-semite, who has
declared himself "enemy number one of normalization between Egypt and
Israel". Since his appointment as culture minister in 1983 he has not
ceased to revile Israel in the most vitriolic terms, and opposes allowing
Israeli books into the national library in Alexandria. He has gone so far
as to call for the burning of all Israeli books, and has stated that if he
finds any Israeli books in the Alexandria library, he will burn them
himself. Among his many anti-semitic rantings, Husseini has stated that
Israel has never contributed to any field of humanity, and instead claims
the achievements of others as its own. He claims that Israeli culture is an
inhuman culture, based on violence, racism, vanity, and that Israel's
sole aim is to steal what doesn't belong to them in order to claim it later
on. According to Husseini, Israel is aided in this dark conspiracy by the
international Jewish community, which has penetrated the world media in
order to disseminate their "satanic" lies.

UNESCO is a United Nations organization founded in 1945 with the stated goal
of promoting peace and security through international cooperation in the
fields of education, science, and culture, and to promote the values of
justice, rule of law, and respect for human rights as set forth in the UN
charter.

Shurat haDin, in its letter to the prime minister, argues that Husseini's
vicious, slanderous, and baldly racist statements make him unfit to serve as
head of a respected organization like UNESCO, whose stated purpose is to
combat the very kind of racism that Husseini espouses. The organization
points out that until now Israeli has waged an aggressive campaign to
prevent Husseini's appointment, and that the prime minister's recent
decision give in to Husseini's appointment is a discredit to the Jewish
people and the state of Israel, and only serves to legitimize Husseini's
anti-semitic rantings. The organization threatens to turn to the Supreme
Court if Netanyahu does not reverse this clearly wrong-headed decision.

For more information:

03-7514175, 052-3837020, info@israellawcenter.org

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Keren Uliel-Shani
Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center
Beit Hakeren, 10 Hata'as St., Ramat Gan 52512
Fax: 972-3-7514174
Tel: 972-3-7514175
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