The United Nations has once again demonstrated its blatant anti-Semitism by passing more resolutions critical of Israel this year than all other nations on earth, combined.
The UN General Assembly, consisting of 193 member countries, passed 15 resolutions critical of Israel in 2022, primarily for its treatment of the Palestinians, compared to 13 resolutions for all other countries.
Six of those resolutions related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, plus one each for Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, North Korea, Myanmar, Georgia and the U.S. (for its embargo of Cuba).
No resolutions were passed condemning China for its ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity committed against the Uyghurs and other religious and ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.
Nor was there any condemnation of notorious human rights violators such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan and Algeria.
Since 2015, the UN General Assembly has passed 136 resolutions critical of Israel compared to 58 against all other nations, combined.
Selectively holding Israel, the world’s only Jewish state, to a higher moral standard than all other nations is classic anti-Semitism because its real purpose is to delegitimize the world’s only Jewish state.
“The UN’s latest assault on Israel with a torrent of one-sided resolutions is surreal,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, a Geneva-based human rights organization.
“Make no mistake: the purpose of these lopsided texts is not to promote human rights, but to demonize the Jewish state …
“The UN’s automatic majority has no interest in truly helping the Palestinians, nor in protecting anyone’s human rights. The goal of these ritual, one-sided resolutions is to scapegoat Israel.
“The UN’s disproportionate assault against the Jewish state undermines the institutional credibility of what is supposed to be an impartial international body. Politicization and selectivity harm its founding mission, eroding the UN Charter’s promise of equal treatment to all nations, large and small.”
The UN’s ongoing delegitimizing of Israel also gives political cover to Jew haters around the world, one of the reasons that recent reports by Toronto Police and Statistics Canada found that — yet again in 2021 — Jews across Canada were the most targeted religious group for reported hate crimes.
Regarding this issue, the Trudeau government did some appalling things this year.
One was waiting for a month to fire raving anti-Semite Laith Marouf, whom it hired as a so-called “anti-racism” expert.
Another was Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shamefully describing Conservative MP Melissa Lantsman, a descendant of Holocaust survivors, as standing “with people who wave swastikas” when she criticized his actions during the Freedom Convoy protest.
That said, Canada’s voting record on anti-Israel resolutions at the UN cannot fairly be described as anti-Semitic and is in fact an example of how both nations and individuals can criticize Israel without being anti-Semitic.
This year, Canada voted in favour of two UN General Assembly resolutions criticizing Israel.
One of them affirmed “the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination”, the other called for “international assistance to the Palestinian people” while living under occupation.
But Canada also voted against other resolutions which were thinly-disguised attacks on Israel, selectively ignoring terrorism against Israeli civilians and human rights violations by the Mideast’s many dictatorships, versus democratic Israel.
In addition, Canada voted in favour of UN resolutions condemning Russia, Iran, Afghanistan, North Korea, Myanmar, Syria, Georgia and the U.S.
Criticizing Israel while simultaneously criticizing human rights violations by other nations is not anti-Semitism.
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