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Micah Avni called on the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday to condemn the murder of his father, Richard Lakin, who died two weeks after being mortally wounded in an October 13 terrorist attack in Jerusalem.
"My father, Richard Lakin, was a kind, gentle person - an elementary school principal who educated thousands of children, a human rights activist dedicated to promoting coexistence," Avni told the UNHRC as it met in Geneva.
"He [Richard Lakin] marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. He founded a school in Israel where Muslim, Christian and Jewish children studied together. He wrote a book called Teaching as an Act of Love," Avni noted.
Avni traveled from Jerusalem to Geneva to address the UNHRC during its debate on "Israeli violations of human rights in the Palestinian territories." Some speakers at the session attacked Israel for killing Palestinians without mentioning that many of the slain were shot while attacking Israelis. Lakin - who held both American...