The Upside-Down Moral Universe of BDS Supporters and the UN

"It's widely known that Israel is often singled out for criticism and held to an unfair double standard. Nowhere is this more evident than in the relentless Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns seeking to vilify Israel and in the annual adoption of numerous one-sided anti-Israel UN resolutions.

Now, when compared to the worsening atrocities in Syria, the assault on the Jewish state may have surpassed all previous levels of hypocrisy and absurdity...

With all the attention on the late-December UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlement activity, it may have been easy to miss the fact that of the 24 resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly at its annual legislative session, 20 were against Israel (only one addressed the situation in Syria). Thus, even as Assad was massacring his own people in Aleppo, the UN saw fit to adopt a resolution, drafted by Syria, rebuking Israel for 'repressive measures against the population of the occupied Syrian Golan.'

To understand just how perverse this resolution is, one need only look at the two realities that are Syria and Israel. In the former, more than 400,000 people have been killed, mostly by the regime and its allies; 1.7 million have been wounded and half of the population ‒ originally 22 million ‒ have fled the country or are internally displaced, dependent on international aid for their daily survival.

Because the Syrian healthcare infrastructure has been left in ruins, thousands of those injured have been brought to Israel under the cover of night by the Israel Defense Forces...

This scapegoating of Israel isn't merely hypocritical ‒ it's obscene.

But, given the upside-down moral universe in which BDS and the UN exist, don't expect things to change anytime soon."