UN guards eject Canadian commentator critical of Israeli war crimes report

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By Steven Edwards, Canwest News ServiceNovember 6, 2009

UNITED NATIONS — Guards at the United Nations whisked away a UN-accredited Canadian commentator this week after she denounced a controversial report that focuses heavily on alleged Israeli war crimes.

Anne Bayefsky, a York University political science professor, offered the only pro-Israel commentary at a microphone outside the UN General Assembly Hall on Thursday night following remarks by the assembly’s Libyan president, Ali Treki, and the chief Palestinian official at the UN, Riyad Mansour.

...UN-based blogger Matt Lee said that Mansour, after being told a “pro- Israel non-governmental organization” had spoken at the mike, asked: “Did we capture them?”

...Nkolo dismissed the suggestion that Bayefsky would have felt free to approach the mike on the grounds that other similarly accredited organizations have done so in the past.

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