Frank Lautenberg: “Professor Bayefsky highlighted the history of the intolerance of the United Nations and outright discrimination against…”

“Professor Bayefsky highlighted the history of the intolerance of the United Nations and outright discrimination against Israel. Now, what does discrimination to Israel mean? It is exemplified in denying Israel and only Israel admission to the vital negotiating sessions of regional groups held daily during meetings of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights. It means devoting 6 of the 10 emergency sessions ever held by the General Assembly to repudiating Israel. In contrast, no emergency session was ever held on the Rwanda genocide, estimated to have killed 1 million people, or on the so-called ethnic cleansing of tens of thousands of people in the former Yugoslavia, or on the atrocities committed against millions of people in Sudan in past decades. More than one-quarter of the resolutions adopted by the Human Rights Commission over the last 40 years condemning the human rights record of various nations have been directed solely at Israel. There has not been a single resolution critical of China for suppressing the civil and political rights of its 1.3 billion people. There has not been a single resolution condemning the deadly racism in Zimbabwe that has brought 600,000 people to the brink of starvation. It seems that anti-Israeli sentiment pervades the top levels of the U.N. hierarchy.”