But then this is the UN, which devotes almost its entire time to rebuking Israel, threatening Israel and passing resolutions condemning Israel while saying nothing whatsoever about recent Syrian persecutions of Christian and Yazidi people or the continued genocide of Uighur people in western China. The UN does not object to North Korea or Iran competing in international tournaments and in the past was perfectly happy to, as it likes to put it, turn a blind eye to the murderous excesses of the Soviet Union and its ghastly European satellite states, as it was with Pinochet’s Chile, and Franco’s Spain,...