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The UN Human "Rights" Council-- a Bad Joke
I had first seen reports of this from Melanie Phillips and then Stephen Pollard. A representative from UNWatch.org made a presentation to the UN Human Rights Council in which he pointed out all the council's blatant biases and anti-Semitism.
The ... UN Watch speech, lifting a mirror to the shortcomings of the UN Human Rights Council, was rejected by council president Luis Alfonso de Alba as "inadmissible." ... He banned the statement from being delivered again, and the speech was stricken without notice from the official extranet record of the Human Rights Council Secretariat
For a comparison of the types of statements welcomed by the Council on the one hand, in contrast with the remarks from UN Watch, see this.

Here is the speech that caused the commotion:

Category: Anti-Semitism, Israel, United Nations Posted on Friday, March 30, 2007 at 1:21pm
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Ronnie (mail):
The vague accusation of rudeness(?) by the prez did not address the speaker's arguments...
4.16.2007 12:06am
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