Boldrini says Netanyahu on UN 'unacceptable'

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 27 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's calling the United Nations "an antisemitic swamp" is unacceptable, centre-left Democratic Party (PD) MP and former UNHCR spokesperson Laura Boldrini said Friday.
    "No one can be allowed to talk about the UN as Benjamin Netanyahu did, who today, before the general assembly, called it "an anti-Semitic swamp", said the leftwing MP and migrant advocate.
    "The UN is not a perfect entity, but it is the largest peace institution in the world, a guarantee for all states, including Israel whose future, at this moment, is put at risk by the policies of Netanyahu and his far-right government.
    "Netanyahu attacks the UN because he does not intend to submit to international law and international humanitarian law as all countries are required to do. "The crimes he has committed and continues to commit, the over 42,000 deaths in Gaza and the illegal occupation of the West Bank first and foremost, are not only not functional to achieving the alleged objective of freeing the hostages held by Hamas for a year now, but they have the only outcome of continuing to generate hatred that risks irremediably contaminating the new generations.
    "Netanyahu is willing to do this and much more in order to maintain his power.
    "If the war ends, the Netanyahu government ends, and he cannot allow this". Boldrini is also Chair of the Permanent Committee of the Chamber on Human Rights in the World. (ANSA).