UN Watch has been described as "a lobby group with strong ties to Israel" (Agence France-Presse) The Jewish Telegraphic Agency describe UN Watch as "a pro Israel Organisation" From Wiki: "Ian Williams, former president of the United Nations Correspondents Association[67] and author of The UN For Beginners,[68] wrote in an opinion piece in The Guardian in 2007 that the main objective of UN Watch "is to attack the United Nations in general, and its human rights council in particular, for alleged bias against Israel". Williams supported UN Watch's condemnation of the UN Human Rights Council as a hypocritical organization, but also accused UN Watch itself of hypocrisy for failing to denounce what he called "manifest Israeli transgressions against the human rights of Palestinians. The last sentence is a little telling ..........
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