Israeli Ambassador Danon: UN Security Council Provides Platform for 'Blood Libels'

"Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon reacted to the statements by Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi in the UN Security Council today, in which he accused Israel of turning the Gaza Strip into a 'concentration camp.'

Brahimi, a former Algerian foreign minister, former UN special envoy to Syria and member of 'The Elders,' reported to the Council that an Arab woman in Gaza told him that, 'Israel put us in a concentration camp'. During his briefing, Brahimi made no mention of Hamas' treatment of its people in Gaza or of its attacks on Israel.

'The Security Council has provided a platform to antisemitic comments and a malicious blood libel,' said Ambassador Danon. 'This one-sided obsession with Israel is beyond the pale. To accuse the Jewish state of using concentration camps is not only despicable, but it degrades the Security Council and the UN as a whole. We demand that the Security Council renounce Brahimi's statement immediately.'"