FIRST ON FOX — The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) stopped a video presentation mid-stream when the speaker brought up Ariel and Kfir Bibas.

The incident occurred during an “Interactive Dialogue” while the UNHRC was reviewing U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk’s report on “the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the obligation to ensure accountability and justice.”

During these dialogues, experts can address the council on human rights issues under discussion.

Anne Bayefsky, Director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, stated that her video submission to the UNHRC was cut off after only a few seconds. Jürg Lauber, President of the U.N. Human Rights Council, halted the video, citing inappropriate language.

Bayefsky began her statement with “The world now knows Palestinian savages murdered 9-month-old baby Kfir,” before Lauber interrupted.

“Sorry, I have to interrupt,” Lauber said as the video paused. He briefly mentioned his objection to the language but then allowed the video to continue briefly before cutting it off entirely, reiterating that “the language that’s used by the speaker cannot be tolerated,” and that it “exceeds clearly the limits of tolerance and respect.”

Bayefsky told Digital that U.N.-accredited NGOs are required to submit transcripts and videos a day before these dialogues, suggesting the U.N. “stage managed” the event, given their prior access to her video and transcript.

Pascal Sim, a spokesperson for the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), has yet to respond to Digital’s request for comment on Bayefsky’s allegations.

“It’s a total farce. There is no free speech at the U.N. for any NGO that calls out U.N. antisemitism. This is not harmless censorship. This is a war that the U.N. has declared against Jews, against Americans, and against free speech,” Bayefsky stated to Digital.

Bayefsky explained that she started her video this way to “get right to the point,” given her limited time of 1 minute and 30 seconds.

“The actual horrors of the extermination of the Bibas babies by Palestinians was off limits and pointing out the UN responsibility for their murder and torture was ‘inappropriate,’” Bayefsky said.

Bayefsky also believes another part of her video contributed to the censorship.

“What U.N. officials knew, and the audience didn’t, was that in my statement I demanded accountability for High Commissioner Türk himself – one of the world’s primary drivers of Palestinian terrorism and ,” Bayefsky told Digital.

In a transcript of the blocked video, Bayefsky refers to Türk as a “High Commissioner for Human Wrongs” and accuses him of having “the blood of Jewish innocents on his hands.”

Critics, including Bayefsky, have criticized Türk for his October 7, 2023, statement that seemed to equate Hamas’ attacks with Israel’s response. Türk stated he was “shocked and appalled” by the violent attacks before condemning Israel.

In response to Digital’s request for comment, Sim stated that “the words of the President of the Human Rights Council speak for themselves.”

During the same hearing, Qatar was permitted to accuse Israel of “torture,” “collective punishment,” and attempting “to impose Judaism” in the West Bank and Gaza without any evidence or interruption. Several speakers also accused Israel of committing genocide, without objection from Lauber.

Furthermore, Defense for Children International, identifying itself as a “local Palestinian child rights organization,” alleged that “Israeli soldiers know that they can kill Palestinian children with impunity and not face any professional or legal consequences,” again without evidence or objection.

“We know exactly why I was censored by knowing what the UN did not censor during this very same ‘dialogue,’” Bayefsky told Digital. “There was no censorship, no cut microphones, no problem saying Israel was committing ‘genocide against Palestinians’… The blood libels and incitement to hate and more violence was voluminous. And that was all just fine with the U.N.”

Bayefsky argues that the U.S. should stop funding the OHCHR.

Bayefsky explained that while President issued an Executive Order preventing U.S. participation in the UNHRC, it did not address funding to OHCHR.

“The bulk of American funding for the U.N. in this context is for Türk and his kingdom at the ‘U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights’… If ever Americans needed one more reason not to pay another cent for U.N.-driven lethal antisemitism, this is it.”