Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the UN Human Rights Council an "oxymoron" for its selective and often obsessive targeting of Israel despite human rights atrocities committed by other UN member states:
Ladies and gentlemen, we live in a world steeped in tyranny and terror, where gays are hanged from cranes in Tehran, political prisoners are executed in Gaza, young girls are abducted en masse in Nigeria, and hundreds of thousands are butchered in Syria, Libya and Iraq.
Yet nearly half, nearly half of the UN Human Rights Council resolutions focused on a single country have been directed against Israel--The one true democracy in the Middle East. Israel--where issues are openly debated in a boisterous parliament, where human rights are protected by independent courts and where women, gays and minorities live in a genuinely free society.
The Human Rights...that's an oxymoron, the "UN Human Rights Council," but I'll use it just the same. The Council's biased treatment of Israel is only one manifestation of the return of one of the world's oldest prejudices.
Speaking before the UN General Assembly on Monday, Netanyahu pointed out the rising tide of anti-semitism throughout the world and placed the so-called "Human Rights Council" within the spectrum of forces contributing to international demonization of Jews and the Jewish State of Israel.
Netanyahu responded to accusations of Israeli "genocide" launched by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas last week:
In what moral universe does genocide include warning the enemy's civilian population to get out of harm's way or ensuring that they receive tons--tons--of humanitarian aid each day as thousands of rocks are being fired at us or setting up a field hospital to aid their wounded?
Well, I suppose it's the same moral universe where a man who wrote a dissertation of lies about the Holocaust and who insists on a Palestine free of Jews can stand at this podium and shamelessly accuse Israel of genocide and ethnic cleansing.
"In the past, outrageous lies against the Jews where the precursors to the wholesale slaughter of our people," Netanyahu said. "But no more. Today we, the Jewish people, have the power to defend ourselves."