For some Israeli politicians, the United Nations has a troubling fixation on their country.
A bias, some claim, has revealed itself particularly prominently in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attacks on Israel. Those attacks claimed the lives of around 1,200 people, according to Israeli officials, and prompted Israel to launch a ground and air offensive inside Gaza that has killed more than 29,400 Palestinians, Gaza health authorities estimate.
It was just last month that Israel’s UN ambassador, Gilad Erdan, accused the international body of being a place of “bias and hypocrisy” with “no morals” for calling for a ceasefire while dozens of hostages still remain in Gaza.
And it was at a General Assembly
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