I have been denouncing that the accusations of \"genocide\" against Israel are not only false, but are also an attempt to whitewash Hamas.<\/p>\n
This was evident this week at the United Nations General Assembly. On Friday, some countries boycotted the Israeli prime minister there<\/a>, with delegates leaving the room to boos and jeers as Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage. Outside the building, about 2,000 people demonstrated with Palestinian flags<\/a>, with criticism and insults directed at Israel and Netanyahu.<\/p>\n A day later, the atmosphere changed radically. Yesterday, the Russian Foreign Minister spoke from the rostrum of the United Nations General Assembly<\/a>. Unlike on Friday, there were no protests against Sergey Lavrov, no whistles or boos were heard<\/strong>, the cameras did not focus on any delegates leaving the premises, and there were no demonstrations outside the building<\/strong>.<\/p>\n This very different treatment of Netanyahu and Lavrov is especially shocking considering that Israel was attacked on October 7, 2023<\/strong>, a terrible event that was not only the worst terrorist attack in its history, but also the largest antisemitic massacre since the Holocaust<\/strong>. Even today, dozens of Israeli citizens remain hostage by Hamas. Let us also remember that Hamas has held some of these hostages in UN compounds in Gaza<\/a>. It is worth remembering that a few weeks after that attack, the UN General Assembly refused to condemn that antisemitic massacre<\/a>, approving a resolution in which it equated the attacked country and the terrorist aggressors.<\/p>\n On the contrary, Russia has attacked a neighboring country, Ukraine, in an unprovoked invasion<\/strong> in which the Russians have also been committing all kinds of war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Ukrainian population. Putin's dictatorship has been systematically and indiscriminately attacking civilian targets<\/strong>, launching missiles, drones, airstrikes and artillery shells against residential buildings, schools, hospitals, kindergartens, temples, universities, museums, etc. In fact, unlike what happened with Hamas's aggression against Israel<\/strong>, the UN expressly condemned both the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Russia's illegal annexation of several Ukrainian regions<\/a>.<\/p>\n Many seem to have forgotten, but Ukraine has been enduring this invasion for more than three and a half years<\/strong>, to which must be added the illegal invasion and annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014. In this war, military casualties already amount to 1.4 million<\/a>, a to which thousands of civilians must be added<\/a>. Despite the tremendous atrocities perpetrated by Russia, protests against this war in the West are very rare and generally organized by Ukrainian associations.<\/strong> The far left has already made it clear that it doesn't give a damn about the Ukrainians killed by Russia.<\/p>\n This double standard has been made evident once again by the slander campaign against the Jewish state: the government of socialist Pedro S\u00e1nchez has repeatedly accused Israel of \"genocide\" but not once Russia<\/a>. In the same vein, in December 2023, UN Secretary General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, a socialist, invoked against Israel an article that he has never invoked against Russia<\/a> to pressure the Security Council on matters that could \"endanger the maintenance of international peace and security\"<\/em>. Similarly, recently an independent UN commission accused Israel of \"genocide\" with a manipulated and shameful report<\/a>. However, so far no UN official has made the same accusation against Putin's dictatorship.<\/strong><\/p>\n You don't have to be a fortune teller to understand the reason for this blatant double standard. Russia is not a Jewish state, and that's why some people so easily forget its crimes<\/strong>, while remaining silent when a minister from that criminal regime takes the UN podium to accuse the invaded country of not wanting peace, which is the height of cynicism.<\/p>\n
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