In a symbolic gesture of protest, the Israeli envoy tore up a copy of the United Nations human rights report on the podium of the General Assembly in response to the body’s obsessive anti-Israel bias.
Israel’s Ambassador to the U.S. and the UN, Gilad Erdan, slammed the UN Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) hypocrisy for targeting Israel — the only functioning democracy in the Middle East — while ignoring gross violations of human rights across the world.
“The voices of the victims, of the terrible crimes against humanity that we have already seen in the first decades of this century, cannot be heard over the obsession of the so-called Human Rights Council with targeting Israel,” he said . The Jewish State had been targeted by the UNHRC in 95 resolutions compared to 142 against all the nations of the world combined, the envoy noted.
In an emotional address, the envoy accused the UN […]
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