UN expert compares Gaza to a concentration camp...

You can always count on UN people to say the most ridiculous things.

The UN should condemn one of its human rights experts for comparing the Gaza Strip to an "immense concentration camp," a Geneva-based campaign group said Thursday.

UN Watch, which monitors the world body's compliance with its charter, said it has written Secretary-General Kofi Annan and other senior UN officials to urge them to condemn Jean Ziegler's "obscene analogy."

According to a report in Swiss newspaper Le Courrier, Ziegler - who is U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food - also called on a pro-Palestinian meeting to pressure Europeans to boycott Israeli goods.

"Mr. Ziegler's hateful remarks come precisely one year after Kofi Annan's call for vigorous UN action against anti-Semitism," said UN Watch chief Hillel Neuer. "Under the European Union's definition of anti-Semitism, 'drawing comparisons of Israeli policy to that of the Nazis is a classic manifestation of this form of hatred."