For too long, the UN has been gripped by Israelophobia

It is something of an understatement to say that there has been no shortage of shocking posts on social media in recent days. Up there has been the footage of the mobs chanting ‘gas the Jews’ outside Sydney Opera House and those flying the Hamas flag in London. But one above all stood out.

Step forward the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Yesterday, as scenes of medieval anti-Semitic savagery were playing out across southern Israel, it put out this message: ‘On Monday afternoon, [we] observed a moment of silence for the loss of innocent lives in the occupied Palestinian territory and elsewhere.’ The only thing more conspicuously absent from that statement than the word ‘Israel’ was a general sense of reality.

That wasn’t even the worst of it. From a video accompanying the post, you’d have thought it was the Jewish state raping, butchering, beheading, burning, kidnapping, executing and mutilating Palestinian families, not the other way round.