Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan tore up the United Nations Human Right Council's annual report at a special General Assembly hearing in New York, Friday.
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"Since its establishment 15 years ago, the Human Rights Council has condemned Israel 95 times compared to the 142 against all other countries in the world combined," Erdan told those in attendance at the assembly.
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"It was on this stage at this very body that the very right of the Jewish people to have a national home was itself declared to be racist - a decision that was justly overturned, a decision that Israel's ambassador at the time, Chaim Herzog, tore up at the United Nations [in 1975 when the world body passed a resolution equating Zionism with racism]. And this is exactly what should be done to this antisemitic, distorted, one-sided report," Erdan said.
Today, I addressed the @UN General Assembly and spoke out against the baseless, one-sided, and outright false accusations from the Human Rights Council's annual report. 1/8 pic.twitter.com/b4YIv2jGaK
— Ambassador Gilad Erdan גלעד ארדן (@giladerdan1) October 29, 2021
He said the report belonged "in the dustbin of antisemitism" before ripping it up and leaving.
In a statement, the UNHRC said it had convened three special sessions this year to address Myanmar, Israel, and Afghanistan this year.
This article was first published by i24NEWS.
