UN discrimination against Jews traps Unilever and J Street

Even more disturbing and reprehensible is this J Street defence of Unilever's anti-Jewish discrimination policy:

J Street gets it very wrong in relying on false and misleading decades-old UN propaganda when making the following claims:

• The battleground is not the "Israeli-Palestinian debate" – it is the "Jewish-Arab conflict" - begun 100 years ago with the 1920 San Remo Conference and Treaty of Sevres and still unresolved - when there were no "Israelis" or "Palestinians" – only "Arabs" and "Jews".
• The "Palestinian people" was not defined until 1964 – a racist and apartheid Arabs-only definition that excludes all non-Arabs and Jews who lived in Palestine after 1917.
• The "rights and freedom of the Palestinian People" specifically excludedany claim by its sole spokesman – the Palestine Liberation Organisation - to sovereignty in "the West Bank of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan" - or the right to establish a separate State there – in addition to Jordan – which occupies 78% of former Palestine.
• "Illegal settlements" are "legal" under article 6 of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine and article 80 of the UN Charter.

Words do count.

J Street's readiness to defend Unilever's decision is appalling. No self-respecting Jewish organisation espousing "our Jewish values" should ever defend decisions discriminating against Jews.

Israel's Ambassador to the UN – Yehuda Blum –confronted the UN General Assembly and trashed its treatment of the Jewish-Arab conflict on 16 November 1978:

The history of international conflicts, and particularly those with complex historical origins, can only be properly written by objective historians who enjoy complete academic freedom. The practice of writing and rewriting history according to the transient interests of a political body is of course characteristic of certain regimes. It is regrettable that the United Nations has now been drawn into that pattern.

Unilever and J Street have seemingly swallowed the UN's pernicious rewriting of history to justify discrimination against Jews because of where they live.