Hudson Institute scholar Anne Bayevsky has been banned from UN Headquarters. Seems she offended the Palestinians by condemning the omission of Hamas from a UN resolution on its slanderous Goldstone Report. As the WSJ editors note, this is Orwellian:
Meanwhile, a committee of the General Assembly recently passed a resolution on the so-called defamation of religion. "Everyone has the right to hold opinions without interference, and has the right to freedom of expression, the exercise of which carries with it special duties and responsibilities and may therefore be subject to limitations," it says.
"Without interference" yet "subject to limitations." Orwell should be living now.
Bottom Line. Orwell's 1984 totalitarian prophecy fortunately did not come to pass. But the Ministry of Truth (Lies) in that great work exists today, and the UN's Turtle Bay HQ is one of its chief departments.
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