Statement from the Prime Minister’s International Spokeswoman in response to antisemitic remarks by U.N. "Commission of Inquiry" member Miloon Kothari

“The international community should be outraged by Miloon Kothari’s antisemitic comments.

His racist remarks about 'the Jewish Lobby' that controls the media and his questioning Israel’s right to exist as a member of the family of nations – echo the darkest days of antisemitism.

The Commission of Inquiry is the epitome of moral hypocrisy.

It makes a mockery of the UN Human Rights Council’s own supposed standards of independence and impartiality.

The evidence is clear: this illegitimate and biased Commission must be disbanded and its commissioners disqualified from UN work.”