Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan on Monday night criticized the United Nations for "turning the issue of antisemitism into a political matter," Ynet reported.
"I expressed criticism toward the special representative on the issue of racism on behalf of the United Nations for turning the issue of antisemitism into a political matter and exceeding its mandate to help antisemites harm Jews," Erdan said, according to the report.
"Defining antisemitism is the first step to fighting it – a call to negate the use of the definition is not," he added.
US Ambassador to the UN slams anti-Israel resolutions
“These one-sided resolutions and activities are a distraction and do nothing to improve the situation on the ground.”
Linda Thomas-Greenfield
This comes just a day after United States Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield voiced concern regarding what she called "a disproportionate number of resolutions with an unfair focus on Israel."
Thomas Greenfield added that “These one-sided resolutions and activities are a distraction and do nothing to improve the situation on the ground.”
Tovah Lazaroff contributed to this report.