Herzog tells U.N. that international bodies exhibit ‘moral bankruptcy’ in treatment of Israel

"President Isaac Herzog says at a UN ceremony marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day that the international courts and institutions set up in the wake of the Holocaust have since become distorted and hypocritical in their attacks on Israel.

Herzog notes that his great uncle, Holocaust survivor Hersch Lauterpacht, served as a prosecutor in the Nuremberg trials and went on to help establish the International Court of Justice, later serving on the court as a judge.

‘He did so out of deep faith – and hope, that the international institutions [including the UN, ICJ and ICC] would forever be committed to preventing these heinous crimes from ever happening again — to the Jewish people or any other people,’ says the president.

However, Herzog says, ‘rather than fulfilling its purpose, and fighting courageously against a global epidemic of jihadist, murderous and abhorrent terror, time and again this assembly has exhibited moral bankruptcy.’

He accuses the ICC of ‘outrageous hypocrisy and protection of the perpetrators of the atrocities… creating a distorted symmetry between the victim and the murderous monster.’

Herzog also accuses the UN and international courts of ‘allowing antisemitic genocidal doctrines to flourish uninterrupted in the wake of the largest massacre of Jews since World War II.’

Terrorists are acting to ‘weaponize the international institutions, undermining the most basic, fundamental reason for their establishment.’ These institutions, he says, are ‘manipulating the definition of genocide for the sole purpose of attacking Israel and the Jewish people.’"