Why didn't the UN blacklist Chinese companies if China occupies Tibet?
Why didn't the UN blacklist Chinese companies if China occupies Tibet?

On February 12, 2020 Arutz 7 reported "Former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley criticized the UN Human Rights Council after the council released a blacklist of over 100 companies which do business in Judea and Samaria Wednesday.

"The @UN hit a new low today publishing its antisemitic blacklist of companies it claims are involved in Israeli 'settlement activity.' The timing of this after the U.S. released a peace plan is conniving & manipulative at best. Shameful," Haley tweeted"

The UN blacklisted even Israeli companies doing business in Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter, including the Western Wall, that it calls part of "occupied Palestinian territories". 

Until 1948 Jews were a majority of the population in Jerusalem. On December 11, 2017 Amb. Dore Gold wrote in the Jerusalem Center of Public Affairs "By the mid-19th century, the British Consulate in Jerusalem made the following determination, according to this report, which I found in the Public Record Office in Kew, it states that Jews were a majority in Jerusalem. When? already in 1863 – that’s long before Theodor Herzl, before the Brits arrived, or Lord Balfour's declaration.".

"See the guy on the right, William Seward, he was Secretary of State of the United States during the American civil war, under President Abraham Lincoln.

"When Seward’s term ended, he visited the holy land, he visited Jerusalem. And he wrote a memoir. And in his memoir, it is written, 'There is a Jewish majority in Jerusalem.' See William Seward, Travels Around the World (1873)

Jews were a majority in Jerusalem until 1948 when the Jordanian Arab Legion (led by British General Glubb)expelled all Jews from the Old City (also destroying dozens of synagogues and thousands of tombstones in the ancient Jewish Cemetery of Mount of Olives). 

Despite the religious significance of the Temple Mount and the Western Wall for the Jews, the UN claims they  are in "occupied Palestinian territories". While Jews face the Temple Mount when they pray around the world, the Arabs face Mecca even when in or around the Temple Mount. While Israel allows Muslims to pray in theTemple Mount, Arabs did not allow Jews to pray at the Western Wall during the Jordanian occupation (1948-1967). Israeli control of the Western Wall is important to guarantee freedom of religion for Jews at the site. 

There are other truly occupied countries in the World but the UN looks the other way and condemns only the Jewish State's presence on land which is defined legally as "disputed," not "occupied."

Why did the UN publish a blacklist of Israeli companies but not one, for example, of Chinese companies for that country's occupation of Tibet?

In his 5 point peace plan  the Dalai Lama called to stop Chinese colonization of Tibet and described the past When the newly formed People's Republic of China invaded Tibet in 1949/50, it created a new source of conflict.  
and  present situation:. 

 "When the newly formed People's Republic of China invaded Tibet in 1949/50, it created a new source of conflict.  

"This was highlighted when, following the Tibetan national uprising against the Chinese and my flight to India in 1959, tensions between China and India escalated into the border war in 1962.  

"Today large numbers of troops are again massed on both sides of the Himalayan border and tension is once more dangerously high. 

 "The real issue, of course, is not the Indo-Tibetan border demarcation.  

"It is China's illegal occupation of Tibet, which has given it direct access to the Indian sub-continent.  

"The Chinese authorities have attempted to confuse the issue by claiming that Tibet has always been a part of China. 

"This is untrue.  Tibet was a fully independent state when the People's Liberation Army invaded the country in 1949/50. 

 "Since Tibetan emperors unified Tibet, over a thousand years ago, our country was able to maintain its independence until the middle of this century.  

"At times Tibet extended its influence over neighbouring countries and peoples and, in other periods, came itself under the influence of powerful foreign rulers - the Mongol Khans, the Gorkhas of Nepal, the Manchu Emperors and the British in India. 

 "It is, of course, not uncommon for states to be subjected to foreign influence or interference. 

"Although so-called satellite relationships are perhaps the clearest examples of this, most major powers exert influence over less powerful allies or neighbours.  

"As the most authoritative legal studies have shown, in Tibet's case, the country's occasional subjection to foreign influence never entailed a loss of independence. 

" And there can be no doubt that when Peking's communist armies entered Tibet, Tibet was in all respects an independent state...

"Human rights violations in Tibet are among the most serious in the world.  

"Discrimination is practiced in Tibet under a policy of 'apartheid' which the Chinese call 'segregation and assimilation'.  

"Tibetans are, at best, second class citizens in their own country. 

"Deprived of all basic democratic rights and freedoms, they exist under a colonial administration in which all real power is wielded by Chinese officials of the Communist Party and the army. 

"Although the Chinese government allows Tibetans to rebuild some Buddhist monasteries and to worship in them, it still forbids serious study and teaching of religion. 

"Only a small number of people, approved by the Communist Party, are permitted to join the monasteries. 

"While Tibetans in exile exercise their democratic rights under a constitution promulgated by me in 1963, thousands of our countrymen suffer in prisons and labour camps in Tibet for their religious or political convictions... 

"The massive transfer of Chinese civilians into Tibet in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention (1949), threatens the very existence of the Tibetans as a distinct people.  

"In the eastern parts of our country, the Chinese now greatly outnumber Tibetans.  

"In the Amdo province, for example, where I was born, there are, according to the Chinese statistics, 2.5 million Chinese and only 750,000 Tibetans.  Even in the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region (i.e., central and western Tibet), Chinese government sources now confirm that Chinese outnumber Tibetans. 

"The Chinese population transfer policy is not new.  It has been systematically applied to other areas before. 

"Earlier in this century, the Manchus were a distinct race with their own culture and traditions. 

"Today only two to three million Manchurians are left in Manchuria, where 75 million Chinese have settled.  

"In Eastern Turkestan, which the Chinese now call Sinkiang, the Chinese population has grown from 200,000 in 1949 to 7 million, more than half of the total population of 13 million.  In the wake of the Chinese colonization of Inner Mongolia, Chinese number 8.5 million, Mongols 2.5 million. 

"Today, in the whole of Tibet 7.5 million Chinese settlers have already been sent, outnumbering the Tibetan population of 6 million. 

"In central and western Tibet, now referred to by the Chinese as the "Tibet Autonomous Region", Chinese sources admit the 1.9 million Tibetans already constitute a minority of the region's population.  

"These numbers do not take the estimated 300,000-500,000 troops in Tibet into account - 250,000 of them in so-called Tibet Autonomous Region.

 "For the Tibetans to survive as a people, it is imperative that the population transfer is stopped and Chinese settlers return to China. 

"Otherwise, Tibetans will soon be no more than a tourist attraction and relic of a noble past. " 

But no blacklist.

Ezequiel Doiny is author of "Obama's assault on Jerusalem's Western Wall"