Like the United Nations General Assembly itself, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) is a farce — a club where the world’s worst despots sing hymns to one another, while heaping endless abuse on Israel.
Yet even by the HRC’s standards, this week’s developments were bizarre: Syria, one of the world’s leading sponsors of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, is suddenly posturing as a global hate-speech policeman.
On Wednesday, Syrian diplomat Rania Al Rifaiy was delivering one of the usual colour-by-number rants against Israeli “brutality” — the sort of everyday anti-Zionist tirade that UN beat journalists don’t even bother reporting anymore — when she suddenly declared: “Hatred is widespread [in Israel], taught to even small children, who are taught to use weapons, and who are taught to sign missiles that will be fired at Arabs … Let me quote a song that a group of children on a school bus in Israel sing merrily as they go to school: ‘With my teeth, I will rip your flesh with my mouth I will suck your blood.’ ”
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