The UN's Lost Legitimacy

"Make no mistake: the UN lost its legitimacy long before it adopted Friday's anti-Israel resolution in the Security Council.

An organization that annually passes 20 General Assembly resolutions against Israel – and just four against the rest of the world combined – has no legitimacy. An organization that has made Israel the only country in the world with a permanent place on its Human Rights Council agenda, has no legitimacy. An organization that elects some of the world's worst human rights offenders, including Saudi Arabia, China, and Cuba, to its highest human rights body, and makes Israel the target of half of all its condemnatory resolutions, has no legitimacy.

To be clear, an organization without legitimacy cannot legitimately condemn one of its member states.

With every passing year, the UN's anti-Israel bias becomes more overt. It's an injustice to Israel to be sure, but it's also an injustice to the millions of victims of tyranny and terror worldwide. Every session spent censuring Israel, every debate spent denigrating the Jewish state, and every fact-finding mission or special commission that is created to investigate the Middle East's only democracy, is time and resources not spent addressing the world's real victims..."