No criticism allowed

The NY Times doesn't like the new U.N. Human Rights Council. It doesn't think they're balanced enough when they criticize Israel:

When it comes to the world’s worst and most consistent human rights violators, like China, Iran, North Korea, Myanmar and Sudan, there has been a tendency to muffle words and conclusions and shift the focus from individual and political rights to broader economic and social questions.

But when it comes to criticizing Israel for violations committed in a wartime context that includes armed attacks against its citizens and soldiers, the council seems to change personality, turning harshly critical and uninterested in broader contexts.

When was the last time that the NY Times criticized the critics of China, Iran, North Korea, Myanmar and Sudan for not balancing their criticism of those countries with criticism of Israel?

Think about that one for a few minutes.

This idea that you can't criticize Israel without balancing that with equal criticism of the Palestinians or someone else is baloney, as is the implication that anyone who criticizes Israel is an anti-semite.

It's rather interesting today's paper also carried the news story that many of the settlements on the West Bank were built on land owned by Palestinians, despite Israel's assurances that it respects Palestinians' property rights. I guess they'd better find an article to balance that one quickly.