Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan responds to the UN rights chief’s comments against the judicial shakeup, arguing that the commissioner has no legitimacy to make them.
“The UN Human Rights Council commissioner, who is responsible for one of the most distorted and immoral bodies in the world, is the last one who can teach Israel what democracy is,” Erdan says in a statement.
The Israeli envoy argues that Turk’s statement “has no legal or moral validity and he has no right to interfere in Israel’s internal affairs.”
“I suggest that the commissioner deal with the protection of human rights in Syria, the murder of women and protesters in Iran, the persecution of the gay community by the Palestinian Authority and a long list of terror organizations and grave injustices committed by dark regimes, which he and his council routinely ignore before, he intervenes and preaches morality to the only democracy in the Middle East.”
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