Israel blasts UN rights council for ‘unparalleled bias’ against Jewish state

23 January 2018, 4:25 pm

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Israel’s envoy to the United Nations in Geneva Aviva Raz Shechter attacks the UN Human Rights Council for its alleged bias towards the Palestinians.

Shechter tells the council Israel has always stood for human rights and democracy, “while facing serious threats to its security, and while needing to integrate diverse communities and religious groups.”

Ambassador Aviva Raz Shechter, Permanent Representative of Israel to the UN and other International Organizations in Geneva. (Photo courtesy of embassies.gov.il)

She lambastes the “unparalleled number of one-sided biased and political resolutions adopted regularly by the automatic majority” of the council’s members, and says these “testify not only to the unfair treatment of the State of Israel, but also to the deficiencies of the Council itself and its agenda.”

Shechter warns that “this theater of the absurd cannot go on forever.”