For the past 28 years, UN Watch, a Swiss non-governmental organization (NGO), has been “monitoring the performance of the United Nations by the yardstick of its own Charter.” The results confirm suspicions. Despite massive evidence of horrifying human rights violations in some countries (China, Iran and North Korea), the voting record of the 193 member states singles out Israel while practically ignoring the top offenders.
In the General Assembly since 2015:
Israel has been condemned 112 times;
Russia has been condemned 13 times;
Syria has been condemned 8 times;
North Korea has been condemned 6 times;
Iran has been condemned 5 times; and
China has been condemned 0 times.
In the Human Rights Council since 2006:
Israel has been condemned 95 times;
Syria has been condemned 37 times;
North Korea has been condemned 14 times;
Eritrea has been condemned 11 times;
Iran has been condemned 11 times; and
China has been condemned 0 times.
The numbers alone reveal the UN’s irrational obsession with one nation. Even those who deem Israel deserving of criticism cannot dispute that this amounts to an extreme case of selective prosecution. When universal standards are applied so selectively, they cease to become standards at all. And by disproportionately focusing on Israel to such an extreme degree, the UN neglects the plight of millions of human rights victims around the world.