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Israel Slams Elections to UN Human Rights Council
(Times of Israel) Jacob Magid - After the UN General Assembly elected several countries widely criticized for their human rights records to the UN Human Rights Council - including China, Russia, Cuba and Pakistan, Israeli UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan said Tuesday, "Today's Human Rights Council elections prove once again that this council has nothing to do with protecting human rights and everything to do with violating them." "Since 2006, the council has adopted 90 resolutions condemning Israel - more than all the resolutions against Syria, North Korea and Iran, combined. The obsessive focus on Israel, along with its protection of oppressive, dictatorial regimes, shows that the Human Rights Council is in the business of white-washing the crimes of these countries."