These include that the the vote was pushed through without debate; no dissenting views were permitted; the authors of the resolution were not revealed; and non-scholars participated in the vote. In fact, only one in four members of the group participated in the vote, meaning that an activist minority produced the result.

The Times of Israel quoted Sara Brown, a Jewish scholar of genocide, who said the process had been corrupt:

“The content of the resolution and the way it was forced through speak to an embarrassing absence of professionalism,” she says. Among her qualms with the resolution are that it cites organizations that have reinterpreted the definition of genocide so that it applies to Israel, such as Amnesty International.