Diaspora Affairs Minister Omer Yankelevich responds to UN General Assembly condemning Israel 3 times as often as the rest of the world.

Diaspora Affairs Minister Omer Yankelevich accused the United Nations of anti-Semitism following a report by UN Watch that the UN General Assembly condemned Israel three times as often as the rest of the world combined in 2020.

"Even in 2020, a year of unprecedented health and economic crisis around the world, the UN has once again devoted time and effort to condemning the State of Israel," Yankelevich stated.

Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more

Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here to Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens

"Out of 23 decisions made in the past year, the State of Israel has been condemned 17 times. By comparison, Iran and North Korea have been condemned only once.

"According to the IHRA's definition of anti-Semitism, which the UN envoy himself recommended last year, "applying double standards to Israel" is an example of contemporary anti-Semitism. This is absurd: the UN calls on other countries to adopt the IHRA definition, but does not adopt it itself!

"The UN was founded after the Holocaust and with the aim of preventing a future Holocaust, but it continues to be an international example of the obsessive bias against the State of Israel - what is it if not anti-Semitism?" she asked.