And the Gaza saga continues

The United Nations Human Rights Council is a disgrace and should be disbanded for allowing itself to be dominated and taken over by the worst human-rights violators in the world and a bunch of terrorism sympathizers.

The Council adopted a declaration that condemns Israel's “grave violations” in the current Gaza conflict. Only Canada was brave enough to do the right thing and vote against this piece of garbage. Canada's leading national newspaper, the Globe and Mail, agrees:

Monday's vote by the United Nations Human Rights Council is unworthy of its noble mandate to strengthen the promotion and protection of human rights, and Canada was right to oppose it.

It really doesn't take a genius to figure out that Israel is not guilty of any “grave violations” – in violent times, one must do what one must do to protect oneself. Anyone who doesn't get that deserves to have a bomb dropped on them (figuratively or literally).

Before anyone starts arguing that Canada's no-vote is the doing of the Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, let it be said that Michael Ignatieff, if he were prime minister, would have ordered the Canadian delegation to the Council to vote against this declaration as well. As already mentioned, it doesn't take a genius to determine what's right and wrong in this matter; only criminals, violators and other ne'er-do-wells would have, and have, voted in favour of the declaration.

In related news, a U.S. law professor has confirmed that CUPE's and Sid Ryan's boycott of Israeli academics is an act of anti-Semitism:

The proposed boycott is to be based on national origin. But it's abundantly clear that it is does not stop there. What about Arab-Israeli academics? The measure seems to be directed only at Israeli academics who are Jewish. Israel is not immune from criticism, and one can and should be able to engage in such criticism without being branded anti-Semitic. But when a measure explicitly singles out one country and then implicitly singles out only Jews, there is no way to describe such a measure as anything but anti-Semitic, if not - as former Harvard University president Lawrence Summers once put it - in its purpose, then certainly in its effects.

Ryan and his silly union outfit should be brought up on charges of committing hate crimes (and the union should be shut down for good).

For the sake of balance, an op-ed article by a Canadian university professor, Michael Byers, makes for a good read, shedding light on the issues of self-defence, international humanitarian law and war crimes.