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A very special (&sad) moment for all connected with Bann. Thankyou Eugene #UTB 🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🐐🐐🐐⁦@eurohockeyorg⁩ ⁦Hockey Ireland⁩ ⁦Ulster Hockey⁩ ⁦EOS IT Solutions⁩ ⁦Ulster Carpets⁩

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KennyCarrollvor 3 Jahren

@eurohockeyorg @irishhockey @UlsterHockey @eosits @UlsterCarpets Well done Eugene 👏 👏. No words

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Niamh Maguirevor 3 Jahren

@eurohockeyorg @irishhockey @UlsterHockey @eosits @UlsterCarpets Amazing career Eugene! 👏👏 GOAT 🐐 Enjoy the celebrations and family time!

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Mark Raphaelvor 3 Jahren

@eurohockeyorg @irishhockey @UlsterHockey @eosits @UlsterCarpets Congrats Eugene- superb player. Superb career. ❤️

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no onevor 3 Jahren

@eurohockeyorg @irishhockey @UlsterHockey @eosits @UlsterCarpets Great servant to Banbridge and Irish Hockey

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Neill Slanevor 3 Jahren

@eurohockeyorg @irishhockey @UlsterHockey @eosits @UlsterCarpets Amazing career and a top lad!

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EXPOSED: LGBT TAKEOVER AS CHURCH LEADERS ABANDON THE FAITH OF THEIR FATHERS The Free Presbyterian Church was founded on faithful adherence to the Word of God and separation from all compromise of Biblical truth. Today its leaders are promoting the very things it was founded to oppose. On Sunday evening, we visited Martyrs’ Memorial Free Presbyterian Church in Belfast and sought to speak with Ian Brown, the minister of that church and the Moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster. We met with Mr Brown outside the church but he would not engage at that time and his wife locked the door behind him. Mr Brown later referenced children arriving on buses. However there were very few children to be seen on any bus as can be seen from video footage. We were deeply alarmed in recent days when Mr Brown exalted and eulogised Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated in the United States on September 10th. Charlie Kirk was the founder of Turning Point USA, a political and religious organisation which brings together students from different religions and backgrounds. TPUSA Faith, a sister organisation, exists “to unite the church.” Charlie Kirk was, in many serious ways, a confused man who was influential in drawing countless young people back to the Roman Catholic Church. He led many to the worship of Mary and promoted the praying of the rosary and praying to saints. Mr Kirk always wore a medal of St Michael, a Catholic symbol. The first night of the TPUSA tour after Kirk’s death was headlined by his close friend Michael Knowles, an influential American “conservative” commentator. Knowles is a former actor who is known for taking a lead role in a sodomite student film among other ventures. He makes no apology for his acting. Knowles began his address with a public prayer to St Michael. He said “Charlie had a great affinity for St Michael the archangel and I think the St Michael prayer speaks especially to our moment.” Knowles went on to promote attendance at Catholic religious services. The majority of confirmed speakers at the TPUSA tour are Mormons and Catholics. In a separate interview Charlie Kirk’s best friend and show producer Andrew Kolvet spoke of Kirk’s love for the “ritual and ancient feel” of the Catholic Eucharist (which he attended with his wife Erika, a practicing Catholic). Charlie Kirk’s memorial service was attended and addressed by a host of Mormons and Catholics including US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has described himself as “fully, theologically, doctrinally aligned with the Roman Catholic Church.” All Free Presbyterian ministers make a vow before Almighty God at their ordination to “maintain with all the strength God shall give [me] the position on Biblical separation from apostasy.” They vow to “expose and resist apostasy” and to “defend the doctrine of Christ against all error.” On 14 September 2025 Ian Brown dedicated a full sermon to the subject of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. In that sermon he lauded Charlie Kirk as a “fantastic apologist” and drew parallels between his assassination and the martyrdom of Stephen. Mr Brown gave special recognition to the work of TPUSA, rejoicing from the pulpit that the organisation had received 18,000 new chapter requests and 32,000 enquiries since Kirk’s death. Mr Brown also shared a summary of Kirk’s memorial service which lauded the religious contribution of Marco Rubio, a fervent Roman Catholic. Numerous ministers of the Free Presbyterian Church have paid similar tributes. Rev. Stephen Greer, the son of Rev. John Greer (Clerk of the Presbytery of the Free Presbyterian Church) said that when Charlie Kirk died he was “immediately received into glory.” Rev. Marcus Lecky of Cookstown Free Presbyterian Church referred to Kirk as a “Christian martyr.” Mr Lecky placed Kirk on the same level as Stephen, Antipas, Jan Hus and William Tyndale, and declared that “like them, Charlie Kirk is gone to his throne in heaven.” Rev. Roger Higginson of Lisburn Free Presbyterian lauded Kirk as “a man who stood up for righteousness” and “a man who stood up for Biblical truths” and said that Kirk had “paid the ultimate price for his faith.” Higginson indicated that Charlie Kirk had “died for Christ” and gone on to his reward, and lamented the “division” in the church today. Likewise Ministers David Park, Joshua Moffat, Garth Wilson and Samuel Murray and many others paid similar tributes to Charlie Kirk. Meanwhile Rev. John Greer, Clerk of the Presbytery of the Free Presbyterian Church, has remained silent. As is clear from the above, these ministers have utterly departed from the founding principles of the Free Presbyterian Church. Far from “maintaining Biblical separation“ and “defending the doctrine of Christ against all error” as they have vowed, they are actively leading their congregations into gross confusion and compromise. In recent days many Free Presbyterian ministers vigorously defended the position of Minister David Park of Ballymoney Free Presbyterian Church who stood by his elder Mervyn Storey in his promotion of transgender ideology in schools across Northern Ireland. Now they are openly and clearly endorsing that which they vowed before Almighty God to oppose. That which the Free Presbyterian Church spent decades fighting against is now being promoted from its pulpits. It has been remarkable to hear Minister for Education Paul Givan laud Charlie Kirk’s “spirit, endeavour and fearless approach”, while he himself promotes LGBTQ+ ideology to every school in Northern Ireland. We urge all those families who love the truth, the purity of the Word of God and the separated stand to come out from under these men. We urge those who wish to protect their children from LGBT ideology to withdraw from these ministers who remain silent as this depravity is forced upon schools. It is time for God’s people to once again take a stand and “earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints” (Jude 3).

Enoch Burke

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“Declare the Iranian ambassador persona non grata, and officially recognize Prince Reza Pahlavi as the representative of the transition to a free, democratic, and secular Iran!” With Persian subtitles: my 4.5-minute speech yesterday during the big #Iran debate in the Belgian 🇧🇪 parliament. Of course, wearing my Farvahar necklace again! 🙏🏻💚🤍❤️👇🏻 📽 “Let me first, on behalf of the proud Persians, the Iranians, express my deep disgust at those who compare #Iran — not an Arab country — to Arab nations such as Iraq and Syria. This is a historic, extraordinary moment. First and foremost for the brave, long-suffering Iranian people — the Persian lions and lionesses. Following the brilliant operations Rising Lion and Midnight Hammer, the U.S. and Israel have launched Operation Roaring Lion and Epic Fury. Roaring Lion, as you understand, makes my heart beat faster as a Flemish nationalist. It is a tribute to the Persian lion on the traditional 'Lion and Sun' flag. And Epic Fury perfectly captures the anger and rage the Iranian people have felt for decades. The Iranian people are furious by the mass threats, kidnappings, torture, rapes, and the jihadist terror and mass murders carried out by this Islamic regime. They are furious because their Persian culture was forcibly Islamized in 1979 — disgracefully, with the cooperation of the West. For 47 years, Iran has been occupied by an Islamic regime that holds the Iranian people hostage and imposes Sharia, or Islamic law, against their will — through terror organizations such as the IRGC, Hamas, and Hezbollah. Jihadist terror worldwide is sponsored by this murderous, criminal regime, including in our own countries. Many non-Iranian victims of this jihadist regime, both in the Middle East and in the West, feel the same 'epic fury', the same righteous anger. Let one thing be clear: this is a legendary liberation operation that can give the Iranians — with their magnificent, ancient Persian civilization — the de-Islamized country they deserve. A legendary liberation operation that has the potential to make the world, including the West, much safer and better. A first major, fundamental step has already been taken: Ali Khamenei, one of the world’s most notorious jihadist mass murderers — an Islamonazi responsible for hundreds of thousands of innocent deaths and wounded — was eliminated with surgical precision. Thank you, Donald Trump. Thank you, Benjamin Netanyahu. Thank you to the heroes of the IDF and the U.S. military. This is not just my message — it is the message of countless Iranians in Iran. And it was also the message of the 1,600 Iranians at the extraordinary demonstration in Brussels last Sunday. It was a celebration. Minister, my first question to you is obvious: do you share this vision — the vision of all these freedom-loving Iranians? Because from Prime Minister Bart De Wever (N-VA) we hear nothing. Nothing, not a word. I find this truly unbelievable. My second question, Minister, is whether you will act on the wishes of these freedom-loving Iranians in Belgium, namely: 1. Declare the Iranian ambassador persona non grata. 2. Officially recognize Prince Reza Pahlavi as the representative of the transition to a free, democratic, and secular Iran. 3. Take all possible steps to demand the release of all political prisoners in Iran. And finally, Minister [Prévot, Les Engagés]: the Islamic tyrant Erdogan bans demonstrations by freedom-loving Iranians and seeks to hand over Iranian critics of the Islamic regime to the butchers of the Islamic Republic of Iran. You readily summon ambassadors — at least when it’s the U.S. or Israeli ambassador. My question is: will you also summon the Turkish ambassador over this?” 👇🏻

Sam van Rooy MP

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MALAYSIA rightly prides itself as an open, trading nation Ever wonder though what are some fun, quirky, unusual items entering 🇲🇾's borders? With a h/t to my sporting Ambassador friends, Comtrade & Fionne Lim, here goes: __________ Argentina Malaysia’s polo fields? Not just for show! 🇦🇷 sends M’sia their prized polo ponies to keep the game strong in Selangor, Johor & beyond __________ Australia Next time you’re munching into some roti canai at ur local mamak, u’re likely munching on a slice of 🇦🇺 Over a million tonnes of Aussie wheat roll into Malaysia each year, making up about 2/3rd of this flaky goodness😋 __________ Austria See an airport fire truck? Likely it’s rolling out from 🇦🇹’s Rosenbauer! __________ Belgium Wonder how Msian chocolates are so smooth? Thank 🇧🇪 for that! Their highly refined rice starch is the secret to the glow up __________ Brazil Brazil’s not just about football—it exports halal beef & chicken to M'sia! Who knew 🇧🇷 would develop such a niche market even from the far side of the globe? __________ China 🇨🇳’s unexpected export to Malaysia? Wigs! Mine just got snatched PS: Gen X/Y … if u don’t get this reference, pls ask your closest Gen Z-er friend 😉 __________ Czech Republic Malaysia’s cats are feasting on “Brit” brand cat food, courtesy of 🇨🇿 __________ Egypt Fresh strawberries in Malaysia? Many come from 🇪🇬...berry surprising! __________ Indonesia Msia’s big in natural gas, but guess what? M’sia also imports LNG from 🇮🇩...keeping it in the nbhd! __________ Italy [warning...another Gen Z ref coming up] 🇮🇹's not just sending over pasta & fashion. Think boujee, like helicopters, supercars, superbikes, super-yachts. Super! __________ India Sarees, spices, B'wood songs sure. But 🇮🇳’s also moving games like chess & carrom into M’sia. PS: talking of B'wood songs, check out this memorable performance by PMX showing his B'wood singing chops (from his recent India trip)! __________ Japan M’sians❤️Japan, we all know. But did you know Msia’s the only country where 🇯🇵 exports its dangerously delicious puffer fish for actual consumption? __________ Philippines Jamming to a Siti Nurhaliza tune? You may be strumming on a🎸handcrafted in Cebu, 🇵🇭 __________ Russia Art lovers, you’ve probably used “Master-class” oil paints. You may have brushed your teeth with Splat toothpaste — both from 🇷🇺! __________ Spain 🇪🇸’s quirkiest export to M’sia? One-day-old chicks ready to be raised within M’sian borders! And special spanish charcoal gives M’sian roast beef that yummy extra flavor! __________ Singapore Surprise, surprise—the little red dot’s sharpest export? Contact lenses! Gotta keep a sharp watch across that Causeway 🇸🇬 __________ South Africa CNY isn’t complete without braised abalone, and guess where it’s coming from -- 🇿🇦 has a role! __________ South Korea Kimchi & K-dramas are life (🙋‍♂️if you’ve binged *Crash Landing on You*). But did you know M’sia is one of the top importers of 🇰🇷kimchi, globally? That’s a whole lotta spicy cabbage! __________ Switzerland Got a knee or dental implant? Chances are you got some Swiss precision engineering inside you, courtesy🇨🇭 __________ Sweden Those sleek prefab houses in Kulim? Flat-packed all the way from 🇸🇪! __________ Thailand No fish tale here—the Siamese fighting fish & fancy guppies in M’sia are imports from 🇹🇭! __________ Turkey Craving hazelnuts? While Nutella might be Italian, 🇹🇷’s where the hazelnuts come from, and Msia’s getting its fair share! __________ USA Besides exporting higher interest rates (!), 🇺🇸’ also M’sia’s main soybean supplier, mostly for animal feed. Who knew soybeans had so much range? __________ That's a wrap. Some thoughts... 1. Malaysians sure have some fun & eclectic tastes😊 2. Trading is hardwired into us humans 3. And we ought to keep it that way – encouraging – not discouraging – it 🙏 PS: This list is clearly not exhaustive. So if you know any other quirky or unusual imports, um, spill the tea! END/

Apurva Sanghi

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50 years ago yesterday: U.N. General Assembly adopts initial draft resolution declaring Zionism to be “a form of racism.” U.S. Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan delivered this historic speech when the infamous act was ratified on Nov. 10, 1975: 🇺🇸 “There appears to have developed in the United Nations the practice for a number of countries to combine for the purpose of doing something outrageous, and thereafter, the outrageous thing having been done, to profess themselves outraged by those who have the temerity to point it out, and subsequently to declare themselves innocent of any wrong-doing in consequence of its having been brought about wholly in reaction to the “insufferable” acts of those who pointed the wrong-doing out in the first place. Out of deference to these curious sensibilities, the United States chose not to speak in advance of this vote: we speak in its aftermath and in tones of the utmost concern. The United States rises to declare before the General Assembly of the United Nations, and before the world, that it does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act. Not three weeks ago, the United States Representative in the Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural Committee pleaded in measured and fully considered terms for the United Nations not to do this thing. It was, he said, “obscene.” It is something more today, for the furtiveness with which this obscenity first appeared among us has been replaced by a shameless openness. There will be time enough to contemplate the harm this act will have done the United Nations. Historians will do that for us, and it is sufficient for the moment only to note the foreboding fact. A great evil has been loosed upon the world. The abomination of anti-semitism — as this year’s Nobel Peace Laureate Andrei Sakharov observed in Moscow just a few days ago — the Abomination of anti-semitism has been given the appearance of international sanction. The General Assembly today grants symbolic amnesty — and more — to the murderers of the six million European Jews. Evil enough in itself, but more ominous by far is the realization that now presses upon us — the realization that if there were no General Assembly, this could never have happened. As this day will live in infamy, it behooves those who sought to avert it to declare their thoughts so that historians will know that we fought here, that we were not small in number — not this time — and that while we lost, we fought with full knowledge of what indeed would be lost. Nor should any historian of the event, nor yet any who have participated in it, suppose, that we have fought only as governments, as chancelleries, and on an issue well removed from the concerns of our respective peoples. Others will speak for their nations: I will speak for mine. In all our postwar history there had not been another issue which has brought forth such unanimity of American opinion. The President of the United States has from the first been explicit: This must not happen. The Congress of the United States in a measure unanimously adopted in the Senate and sponsored by 436 of 437 Representatives in the House, declared its utter opposition. Following only American Jews themselves, the American trade union movements was first to the fore in denouncing this infamous undertaking. Next, one after another, the great private institutions of American life pronounced anathema in this evil thing — and most particularly, the Christian churches have done so. Reminded that the United Nations was born in struggle against just such abominations as we are committing today — the wartime alliance of the United Nations dates from 1942 — the United Nations Association of the United States has for the first time in its history appealed directly to each of the 141 other delegations in New York not to do this unspeakable thing. The proposition to be sanctioned by a resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations is that “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.” Now this is a lie. But as it is a lie which the United Nations has now declared to be a truth, the actual truth must be restated. The very first point to be made is that the United Nations has declared Zionism to be racism — without ever having defined racism. “Sentence first — verdict afterwards,” as the Queen of Hearts said. But this is not wonderland, but a real world, where there are real consequences to folly and to venality. Just on Friday, the President of the General Assembly, speaking on behalf of Luxembourg, warned not only of the trouble which would follow from the adoption of this resolution but of its essential irresponsibility — for, he noted, members have wholly different ideas as to what they are condemning. “It seems to me that before a body like this takes a decision they should agree very clearly on what they are approving or condemning, and it takes more time.” Lest I be unclear, the United Nations has in fact on several occasions defined “racial discrimination.” The definitions have been loose, but recognizable. It is “racism,” incomparably the more serious charge — racial discrimination is a practice; racism is a doctrine — which has never been defined. Indeed, the term has only recently appeared in the United Nations General Assembly documents. The one occasion on which we know the meaning to have been discussed was the 1644th meeting of the Third Committee on December 16, 1968, in connection with the report of the Secretary-General on the status of the international convention on the elimination of all racial discrimination. On that occasion — to give some feeling for the intellectual precision with which the matter was being treated — the question arose, as to what should be the relative positioning of the terms “racism” and “Nazism” in a number of the “preambular paragraphs.” The distinguished delegate from Tunisia argued that “racism” should go first because “Nazism was merely a form of racism.” Not so, said the no less distinguished delegate from the Union Soviet Socialist Republics. For, he explained, “Nazism contained the main elements of racism within its ambit and should be mentioned first.” This is to say that racism was merely a form of Nazism. The discussion wound to its weary and inconclusive end, and we are left with nothing to guide us for even this one discussion of “racism” confined itself to world orders in preambular paragraphs, and did not at all touch on the meaning of the words as such. Still, one cannot but ponder the situation we have made for ourselves in the context of the Soviet statement on that not so distant occasion. If, as the distinguished delegate declared, racism is a form of Nazism — and if, as this resolution declares, Zionism is a form of racism — then we have step to step taken ourselves to the point of proclaiming — the United Nations is solemnly proclaiming — that Zionism is a form of Nazism. What we have here is a lie — a political lie of a variety well known to the twentieth century, and scarcely exceeded in all that annal of untruth and outrage. The lie is that Zionism is a form of racism. The overwhelmingly clear truth is that is it not. The word “racism” is a creation of the English language, and relatively new to it. It is not, for instance, to be found in the Oxford English Dictionary (appears in 1982 supplement to Oxford Dictionary). The term derives from relatively new doctrines — all of them discredited — concerning the human population of the world, to the effect that there are significant biological differences among clearly identifiable groups, and that these differences establish, in effect, different levels of humanity. Racism, as defined in Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, is “The Assumption that . . . traits and capacities are determined by biological race and that races differ decisively from one another.” It further involves “a belief in the inherent superiority of a particular race and its right to dominate over others.” This meaning is clear. It is equally clear that this assumption, this belief, has always been altogether alien to the political and religious movement known as Zionism. As a strictly political movement, Zionism was established only in 1897, although there is a clearly legitimate sense in which its origins are indeed ancient. For example, many branches of Christianity have always held that from the standpoint of biblical prophets, Israel would be reborn one day. But the modern Zionism movement arose in Europe in the context of a general upsurge of national consciousness and aspiration that overtook most other people of Central and Eastern Europe after 1848, and that in time spread to all of Africa and Asia. It was, to those persons of the Jewish religion, a Jewish form of what today is called a national liberation movement. Probably a majority of those persons who became active Zionists and sought to emigrate to Palestine were born within the confines of Czarist Russia, and it was only natural for Soviet Prime Minister Andrei Gromyko to deplore, as he did in 1948, in the 299th meeting of the Security Council, the act by Israel’s neighbors of “sending troops into Palestine and carrying out military operations aimed” — in Mr. Gromyko’s words — at the suppression of the national liberation movement in Palestine.” Now it was the singular nature — if, I am not mistaken, it was the unique nature — of this national liberation movement that in contrast with the movements that preceded it, those of that time, and those that have come since, it defined its members in terms not of birth, but of belief. That is to say, it was not a movement of the Irish to free Ireland, or of the Polish to free Poland, not a movement of the Algerians to free Algeria, nor of Indians to free India. It was not a movement of persons connected by historic membership to a genetic pool of the kind that enables us to speak loosely but not meaninglessly, say, of the Chinese people, nor yet of diverse groups occupying the same territory which enables us to speak if the American people with no greater indignity to truth. To the contrary, Zionists defined themselves merely as Jews, and declared to be Jewish anyone born of a Jewish mother or — and this is the absolutely crucial fact — anyone who converted to Judaism. Which is to say, in terms of International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, adopted by the 20th General Assembly, anyone — regardless of “race, colour, descent, or nationally or ethnic origin …..” The state of Israel, which in time was the creation of the Zionist Movement, has been extraordinary in nothing so much as the range of “racial stocks” from which it Orient and Jew from the West. Most such persons could be said to have been “born” Jewish, just as most Presbyterians and most Hindus are “born” to their faith, but there are many Jews who are just converts. With a consistency in the matter which surely attests to the importance of this issue to that religions and political culture, Israeli courts have held that a Jew who converts to another religion is no longer a Jew. In the meantime the population of Israel also includes large numbers of non-Jews, among them Arabs of both the Muslim and Christian religions and Christians of other national origins. Many of these persons are citizens of Israel, and those who are not can become citizens by legal procedures very much like those which obtain in a typical nation of Western Europe. Now I should wish to be understood that I am here making one point, and one point only, which is that whatever else Zionism may be, it is not and cannot be “a form of racism.” In logic, the State of Israel could be, or could become, many things, theoretically, including many things undesirable, but it could not be and could not become racism unless it ceased to be Zionist. Indeed, the idea that Jews are a “race” was invented not by Jews but by those who hated Jews. The idea of Jews as a race was invented by nineteenth century anti-semites such as Houston Steward Chamberlain and Edouard Drumont, who saw that in an increasingly secular age, which is to say an age made for fewer distinctions between people, the old religions grounds for anti-semitism were losing force. New justifications were needed for excluding and persecuting Jews, and so the new idea of Jews as a race — rather than as a religion — was born. It was a contemptible idea at the beginning, and no civilized person would be associated with it. To think that it is an idea now endorsed by the United Nations is to reflect on what civilization has come to. It is precisely a concern for civilization, for civilized values that are or should be precious to all mankind, that arouses us at this moment to such special passion. What we have at stake here is not merely the honor and the legitimacy of the State of Israel — although a challenge to the legitimacy of any member nation ought always to arouse the vigilance of all members of the United Nations. For a yet more important matter is at issue, which is the integrity of the whole body of moral and legal precepts which we know as human rights. The terrible lie that has been told here today will have terrible consequences. Not only will people begin to say, indeed they have already begun to say that the United Nations is a place where lies are told, but far more serious, grave and perhaps irreparable harm will be done to the cause of human rights itself. The harm will arise first because it will strip from racism the precise and abhorrent meaning that it still precariously holds today. How will the people of the world feel about racism and the need to struggle against it, when they are told that it is an idea as broad as to include the Jewish national liberation movement? As the lie spreads, it will do harm in a second way. Many of the members of the United Nations owe their independence in no small part to the notion of human rights, as it has spread from the domestic sphere to the international sphere exercised its influence over the old colonial powers. We are now coming into a time when that independence is likely to be threatened again. There will be new forces, some of them arising now, new prophets and new despots, who will justify their actions with the help of just such distortions of words as we have sanctioned here today. Today we have drained the word “racism” of its meaning. Tomorrow, terms like “national self-determination” and “national honor” will be perverted in the same way to serve the purposes of conquest and exploitation. And when these claims begin to be made — as they already have begun to be made — it is the small nations of the world whose integrity will suffer. And how will the small nations of the world defend themselves, on what grounds will others be moved to defend and protect them, when the language of human rights, the only language by which the small can be defended, is no longer believed and no longer has a power of its own? There is this danger, and then a final danger that is the most serious of all. Which is that the damage we now do to the idea of human rights and the language of human rights could well be irreversible. The idea of human rights as we know it today is not an idea which has always existed in human affairs, it is an idea which appeared at a specific time in the world, and under very special circumstances. It appeared when European philosophers of the seventeenth century began to argue that man was a being whose existence was independent from that of the State, that he need join a political community only if he did not lose by that association more than he gained. From this very specific political philosophy stemmed the idea of political rights, of claims that the individual could justly make against the state; it was because the individual was seen as so separate from the State that he could make legitimate demands upon it. That was the philosophy from which the idea of domestic and international rights sprang. But most of the world does not hold with that philosophy now. Most of the world believes in newer modes of political thought, in philosophies that do not accept the individual as distinct from and prior to the State, in philosophies that therefore do not provide any justification for the idea of human rights and philosophies that have no words by which to explain their value. If we destroy the words that were given to us by past centuries, we will not have words to replace them, for philosophy today has no such words. But there are those of us who have not forsaken these older words, still so new to much of the world. Not forsaken them now, not here, not anywhere, not ever. The United States of America declares that it does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act.”

Hillel Neuer

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