Canada calls on UN to reconsider anti-Israel professor appointment

Canada’s foreign affairs minister has called on the United Nations to review the appointment of a Canadian law professor with a history of anti-Israel bias to a key United Nations job.

Government minister Stephane Dion is questioning the appointment of Michael Lynk, a law professor at Western University in London, Ontario, as the UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Palestine.

— JTA

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