GOLDSTEIN: UN key in Israel's creation but treats Jewish state with open contempt

The voting results are displayed on the floor of the United Nations General Assembly in which the United States declaration of Jerusalem as Israel's capital was declared "null and void" on December 21, 2017 in New York CitySpencer Platt / Getty Images

That the United Nations General Assembly voted 128 to 9 Thursday to condemn U.S. President Donald Trump for recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel was no surprise.

Hatred of Israel, and Jew-hatred, run so deep at the UN that the real news was that 65 countries opposed (9), abstained (35), or skipped the vote (21), after the U.S. said it would remember how nations cast their ballots.

Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassador to the UN, tweeted her thanks to all 65, including Canada, which abstained, noting: “We appreciate these countries for not falling to the irresponsible ways of the @UN.”

Canada’s UN ambassador, Marc-André Blanchard, will attend a reception hosted by Haley Jan. 3, thanking these countries for their “friendship” with the U.S.

Canada’s abstention was the best supporters of Israel could have expected given Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s lobbying for a two-year seat on the UN Security Council, with that vote taking place in 2020.

In the modern era, Conservative PMs have been far more supportive of Israel than Liberal ones, especially Stephen Harper, and Brian Mulroney.

Same goes for Republican presidents, including Trump, George H. W. Bush, who successfully campaigned in 1991 to revoke the UN’s loathsome 1975, Soviet-backed resolution equating Zionism with racism, and Richard Nixon, who provided Israel with military supplies at a crucial moment in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war that turned the tide in Israel’s favour.

The UN, ironically, was instrumental in creating Israel in 1948.

But ever since it has treated the Jewish state with open contempt, driven largely by the 22-nation Arab League and the 57 member countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

For example, Israel was blocked from membership in its natural cluster of countries at the UN, the Asian Group, preventing it from full participation, until it was gradually admitted into the “Western European and Others Group”.

The General Assembly and its related bodies routinely pass more resolutions condemning Israel than any other nation on earth, and frequently, more resolutions than all other nations combined.

Last year, the General Assembly passed 20 resolutions condemning Israel, compared to six for all other countries, with three against Syria and one each for Iran, North Korea and Crimea.

UN apologists defend this constant targeting of Israel by arguing it, unlike these other countries, asks to be judged by the standards of a Western democracy, a laughable excuse given how they incessantly plot to restrict Israel’s ability to participate in the UN.

And as if Israel is the only Western democracy to have ever violated human rights, or claimed as its capital a city sitting on disputed or “occupied” territory.

What’s really going on at the UN is the practice of one of the world’s oldest and most enduring forms of hate.

When religion was the driving force of civilization thousands of years ago, Judaism was portrayed by its enemies as the world’s most evil religion, with Jews falsely accused of murdering the children of non-believers to use their blood to make matzah for Passover, known as the “blood libel.”

In the twentieth century, when “science” became the defining symbol of human progress, the Nazis sought to prove through “science” that Jews were uniquely evil.

Today, when “human rights” are paramount, Jew haters portray Israel as the world’s worst human rights violator for its treatment of the Palestinians.

It’s just the same old Jew hatred, the same cancer, forever evolving and metastasizing.

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