Examples of using Schabas in English and their translations into Hebrew
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William Schabas.
Schabas has participated in a number of Al Haq conferences;
William Schabas.
Schabas has been very active in the movement for worldwide abolition of capital punishment.
William Schabas.
Israel boycotted the Schabas Committee, did not participate with it, and did not allow it to enter Israel.
William Schabas.
Prof. William Schabas announced his resignation as chairman of the UN Human Rights Council commission of inquiry.
Yet by February 2015--after his paid legal work for the PLO was exposed- Schabas resigned in disgrace.
If UN officials were previously aware of Schabas' connections to the PLO, why was this information not disclosed earlier?
In order to let the debate stay focused on what happened in Gaza rather than on his own personality,Professor Schabas chose to announce his resignation.
In February 2015, the chairman of the commission, William Schabas, resigned after it was revealed that he had been a paid consultant for the PLO in 2012.
Furthermore, Schabas' record of anti-Israel biases includes repeated calls for prosecuting Israeli officials for alleged“war crimes” at the International Criminal Court.
Through persistent surveillance,Israel's intelligence and propaganda branches revealed that Schabas had once received a $1,300 fee from the PLO.
William Schabas, whose bias against Israel was well established, should never have been appointed in the first place,” said Prof. Gerald Steinberg, president of NGO Monitor.
The man select by the UNHRC tobe the leading judge is William Schabas- selected because he is one of the most blatant antiSemites they could find.
Schabas has also defended Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadenijad, stating that his repeated calls to“wipe Israel off the map,” do not constitute a“call for genocide,” but are simply“political views.”.
The letter containedpreviously unreported information that in 2012, Professor Schabas authored a legal opinion on behalf of the PLO, for which he was paid $1,300.
In the letter, Schabas said a legal opinion he wrote for the PLO in 2012, for which he was paid $1,300, was not different from advice he had given to many other governments and organisations.
When that same body created abiased commission of inquiry headed by William Schabas, a life-long anti-Israel activist who did paid legal work for the PLO, why were you silent?
The appointment of Schabas was designed to succeed where the Goldstone fiasco failed- to produce an indictment of Israel that could be used to promote the opening of case against Israelis in the International Criminal Court.
But sober Israeli commentators suggested"not to rejoice too soon",since"Schabas resigned, the report will be written also without him, and the State of Israel will not look good there.".
In the coming years, Major General Afek will have to lead the legal battle against the challenges that are developing in the international arena, as we saw in the Goldstone Committee,the Palmer Committee, and the Schabas Committee.
Jerusalem- On August 11, 2014,the UN Human Rights Council appointed William Schabas, a Canadian Professor, to head the latest“inquiry” on alleged human rights violations in the Gaza conflict.
William Schabas, the head of the Commission, in alliance with non-governmental organizations(NGOs) and the Palestinian Authority, seek to use the CIO as part of the campaign seeking to exploit the International Criminal Court(ICC) for“lawfare” attacks against Israel.
Further, in a 2009 blog post about the UN'sinfamous Durban II conference on racism, Schabas urged the world not only to“ignore” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's statements, but to stop“exaggerating” them.
Schabas was an active participant before a pro-Palestinian“tribunal” that, according to a New York Times op-ed by Judge Richard Goldstone, consisted of one-sided evidence and a jury composed of“critics whose harsh views of Israel are well known.”.
The diligent researchers employed by thegovernment of Israel discovered that in the past Professor Schabas wrote for the PLO a legal opinion on the Palestinian attempts to gain recognition at UN institutions- and hence, that he was not an unbiased investigator.
Influencers on the world stage, our academics include business and human rights expert Dr. Nadia Bernaz and Associate Professor of International Law Dr. Elvira Dominguez-Redondo andProfessor of International Law William Schabas, who have both worked with the United Nations.
In fact, the resignation followed revelations that Schabas had previously done legal work for the Palestinian Liberation Organization(PLO)- a clear conflict of interest that would have disqualified him from the beginning if it had been disclosed.