UN Watch's Hillel Neuer just took the floor at the United Nations human rights council, under their permanent agenda item targeting Israel at every session: “Mr. Chair, we meet today under the council’s only agenda item targeting a specific country – Israel. No other country in the world — not even the dictatorships nor the state sponsors of terror that just took the floor — has its own agenda item. Only Israel. And as we just heard, they do not speak of peace. They come only to scapegoat and demonize the Jewish state. That is why, when this item was created, even the UN Secretary-General denounced it. On June 20, 2007, Ban Ki-moon said he was “disappointed” at the Council’s decision to single out Israel — given, as he put it, the “range and scope” of human rights violations throughout the world. haaretz.com/2007-06-21/ty-ar… Indeed: if this Council truly cares about universal rights, why is there no agenda item on China, which denies basic human rights to 1.5 billion of its own people? Why no item on the Islamic Republic in Iran, which beats women for showing their hair? Why none on Syria, where half a million were slaughtered? Why none on North Korea, which runs political prison camps, and starves its people? Why none on Russia, which poisons dissidents, and bombs innocents in Ukraine? Why none on the Cuban police state, which holds a thousand political prisoners?” ⭕️ CUBA interrupts on point of order: “It is not admissible to hear such conduct or disrespectful language from any of the participating speakers which hinders the functioning of this council. The speaker must adhere to language which corresponds to the item under discussion.” 🇺🇳 CHAIR gives the floor back to UN Watch, but adds, “It is my duty to call on everyone to adhere to language that is commensurate with the dignity inherent with the discussion on human rights issues.” Hillel Neuer: “Mr. Chair, we heard Cuba, but if the UN Secretary-General could invoke abuses worldwide to criticize this agenda item, surely I may do the same.” “This agenda item does not advance peace. The UN was founded on universal standards. Yet when applied so selectively, turned into weapons of discrimination against one people, they cease to become standards at all.”