UNGA president compares Israeli policies to apartheid

UNITED NATIONS - Israel on Tuesday protested the remarks of General Assembly President Miguel D’Escoto, a former foreign minister of Nicaragua, comparing the Israeli policies in the Occupied Palestinian Territory to “the apartheid of an earlier era", according to a UN official.
The straight-talking assembly president made those remarks while opening a commemorative meeting for the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on Monday.
Denouncing Israeli policies in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Diescoro said, “We must not be afraid to call something what it is.” He added that, after all, it was the United Nations that had passed the International Convention against the crime of apartheid.
D'escoto told delegates in the General Assembly hall that it was important that the United Nations used that term.