After the amendment failed and the chamber passed the wider resolution which called for an immediate ceasefire without explicitly condemning the Hamas attacks, the Israeli Ambassador, Gilad Menashe Erdan, said that the U.N. "No longer holds even one ounce of legitimacy or relevance."
The failure of the U.N. General Assembly to condemn Hamas should not be a surprise to those who have followed the United Nations' treatment of Israel compared to other members, some of which are authoritarian regimes that routinely violate human rights according to the U.N.'s own definitions.
"They have all long embraced terrorist organizations, terrorist countries like Iran, coddle them, but also dictators and authoritarians of all stripes have been perfectly happy. And at home at the U.N., while freedom loving countries like Israel and the United States have been put on the back heel by the U.N.".
According to a database maintained by U.N. Watch, in 2022 the U.N. General Assembly passed 16 resolutions on Israel-a majority concerning the country's human rights record.
In the same year the General Assembly only passed 2 total resolutions on notorious human rights abusers Iran and North Korea, and only 7 on Russia-which is engaged in a war of conquest against its neighbor in violation of the U.N. charter.
The U.N. Human Rights Council also has a demonstrated what may be described as an anti-Israel bias.
The U.N. together signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights after the war, the first document denoting worldwide agreement on human rights.
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