“Pure, Old-School Anti-Semitism,” Lapid Blasts UN Committee Against Israel

Jerusalem, 21 March, 2016 (TPS) -- Hundreds protested on Monday, March 21, outside the meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, as the council convened to discuss alleged violations of human rights by Israel.

“That is not a council for human rights. That is a council for terrorist rights,” MK Yair Lapid blasted the organization, speaking to the crowd assembled in protest outside the U.N. headquarters in Geneva.

Lapid condemned the council for focusing disproportionately on Israel, explaining that in the past decade the Human Rights Council has passed 62 resolutions against Israel but only 55 against the rest of the world combined.

“The treatment of Israel by the council is far beyond bias,” he said. “It’s obsessive. It’s insanity. What they’re doing today is pure, old-school anti-Semitism.”