More anti-Israel Resolutions at the UN...

Once again, Israel is being singled out like no other country. Anne Bayefsky hits it on the head.

Remember the UN General Assembly resolution last week on the Holocaust concerned about Jews who were murdered 60 years ago? The remorse over Jewish deaths didn't last long.

November 10th the UN General Assembly's Fourth Committee introduced nine resolutions condemning Israel and its efforts to defend Jewish self-determination. In addition, one of the permanent bodies created by the UN in 1975 to castigate Israel year round -- the Committee on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People -- approved another four resolutions. They also recommended they be adopted by the General Assembly. That's 13 resolutions in one day against one UN member.

To put this in perspective, this week seven General Assembly resolutions were introduced concerned about human rights violations in the rest of the world. One for each of Myanmar, Democratic Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iran, Sudan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

That means, for example, there will not be a single UN General Assembly resolution on China. So what's 1.3 billion people living under totalitarian repression for decades, give or take? Or how about the human rights situation in states described by Freedom House as among the world's most repressive regimes: Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Syria? Zilch.

Human rights folks often say discrimination against Israel is just the price of doing business at the UN. But then that would mean human rights for everybody except Jews is built on the backs of Jews. And that Holocaust resolution was supposed to stand for just the opposite -- or wasn't it?