Gold also said that only time will tell if the recent UN decision denouncing anti-Semitism alongside “Islamophobia and Christianaphobia” is a change in policy.
Speaking with Arutz-7 radio, Gold said the UN committee's resolution of last week expresses opposition to terrorism, "but [the UN] still denounces means by which Israel attacks terror." The recent resolution, the first time in its history that the UN denounced anti-Semitism, "is only a sign of a change," and not necessarily a change in itself, he added.
Gold explained that the UN has condemned Israel for its measures of self-defense several times, without criticizing the terrorism against Israel. He cited as an example the decision of the International Court of Justice in the Hague, which denounced the building of the security partition fence - but did not even mention the terrorism that the fence is designed to curtail.
UN decisions have no legal standing, Gold added, but its decisions become a legal standard for many countries. He referred to a statement by Yasser Arafat in the 1970s that hijacking airplanes was justifiable based on UN decisions.