By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – A series of public hearings with victims of alleged Israeli human rights violations opened at the United Nations in Geneva on Monday, with Israel dismissing them as “sham trials”. The independent Commission of Inquiry, established by the U.N. top human rights body last year, plans five days of hearings which it says will be impartial and examine the allegations of both Israelis and Palestinian authorities. However, Israel said the hearings were convened with little notice and pointed to an “anti-Israel” agenda. “This (COI) and the convening of these sham trials…