Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, has written to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon calling on him to condemn a statement by Ecuadorian Ambassador Horacio Sevilla Borja comparing Israel's treatment of Arabs to the Nazis treatment of the Jews. Danon demanded that Borja apologize. The letter said, "The UN cannot treat such despicable words of hate and pure antisemitism as business as usual. It should be made crystal clear to all member-states that such antisemitic behavior will not be tolerated at the UN."
Ambassador Danon went on to emphasize the destructive carelessness in the Ecuadorian ambassador's words by writing that "The idea that Israel, a thriving democracy where civil and minority rights are protected and cherished, would be compared to the most brutal dictatorship in history which massacred six million of our people and millions of others is deeply offensive. Such words are a terrible affront to the last remaining survivors of the Holocaust and to the second and third generations that are still recovering from the greatest crime against humanity the world has ever seen."