The latest chapter in the dark comedy of hatred and venality masquerading as “human rights” at the United Nations: New UN rights body targets Israel. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)

The new UN Human Rights Council voted Friday to make a review of alleged human rights abuses by Israel a permanent feature of every council session.

The resolution, which was sponsored by Islamic countries, was passed by a vote of 29-12, with five abstentions. It effectively revives a practice of the UN’s dissolved Human Rights Commission, which also reviewed alleged Israeli abuses every time it met.

Israel protested Friday’s vote, calling it a perpetuation of “the old infamous habits” of the widely discredited commission.

The resolution requires UN investigators to report at each council session “on the Israeli human rights violations in occupied Palestine.”