UN criticizes Israel for not granting visas after listing illegal settlements

The UN published its controversial database of 112 businesses operating in east Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and Judea and Samaria in February, the first list of its kind about any country.

Israel has declined to renew the visas of most of the international workers of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in the months after its publication of a blacklist of companies doing business in Judea and Samaria.

In response to the Israeli government acting on its threat against the OHCHR, Anne Herzberg, legal adviser for the NGO Monitor think tank said “this development is not surprising given OHCHR’s official embrace of efforts to damage the Israeli economy.

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[Editor: This is not new news by any standard having been reported in the Jerusalem Post five days before. ]