Regarding the recent vote condemning Israel for threatening Arafat with death or expulsion:

http://www.adl.org/presrele/IslME_62/4094_62.asp

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Press release, from the Anti-Defamation League:

ADL CALLS U.N. RESOLUTION AGAINST ISRAEL "BIASED AND POLITICIZED"

New York, NY, May 8, 2002
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today deplored the blatantly biased resolution passed at the United Nations General Assembly emergency session which condemned Israel exclusively while ignoring Palestinian terrorism and violence.

The U.N. resolution passed as a Palestinian terrorist carried out a deadly suicide attack in Israel.

Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement:

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It is highly ironic that the U.N. General Assembly gathered to debate and pass yet another biased resolution, condemning Israel, while a Palestinian suicide bomber was carrying out an attack that killed at least 16 innocent Israeli civilians and injured scores more.

The United Nations has once again proved to be biased and politicized against Israel.
Time and again, the General Assembly has singled out Israel, and ignored continued Palestinian violence and terrorism.

We have repeatedly called on the General Assembly to act in a responsible manner. Yet time and again they demonstrate that [they] do not seek to constructively resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but rather only to create political drama and exacerbate tensions.

We express our appreciation to the United States, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia for joining Israel in voting "no."
The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the world's leading organization fighting anti-Semitism through programs and services that counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry.



While clearly from a pro-Israel source (the ADL is an American Jewish organization in the United States, whose purpose as I've been able to gather is deconstructing anti-Jewish propaganda and responding to it), this press release makes its case very powerfully.

The U.N.'s objecting to harsh Israeli rhetoric while not saying a word about 16 Israeli civilian deaths, courtesy of a Palestinian suicide bombing, one of an endless stream of bombings which occur almost daily in Israel, speaks for itself about the absurdity of the U.N.'s priorities.

The press release is from 2002, but it is just as relevant to the present resolution. There is a consistent U.N. apathy to the Israeli side of the issue.