The current president of the United Nations General Assembly, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann of Nicaragua, has likened Israel's actions vis-à-vis the Palestinians to the South African apartheid regime, and called on the international community to consider stricter measures against Israel including "boycott, divestment and sanctions" similar to those enacted against South Africa in the 1980s. D'Escoto made his statements at an event in New York on the 'International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People'. He added that the failure to establish a Palestinian state made "a mockery of the United Nations and greatly hurts its image and prestige."
The Holocaust and other historical crimes against the Jews did not give Israel "the right to abuse others, especially those who historically have such deep and exemplary relations with the Jewish people," d'Escoto, a former priest and former foreign minister of Nicaragua, said.
