The Palestinian Arab observer at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva called for the elimination of the state of Israel. (Hat tip: selpaw.)

Shimon Samuels, the Wiesenthal Center’s representative at the 59th Human Rights Commission session currently taking place in Geneva, wrote the UN Human Rights High Commissioner Sergio Vieira de Mello calling on him to “immediately condemn the Palestinian observer and take the necessary measures for his recall, due to his violation of the UN Charter in calling for the ‘elimination’ of the state of Israel.

In addition to calling for Israel’s elimination, Samuels said, Nabil Ramlawi repeatedly compared Nazism and “new Zionist Nazism,” and at one point said Zionist Nazism was worse than German Nazism.

Samuel, in his letter to de Mello, said, “this call for the elimination of Israel may reveal the true intentions of the PA, but such language should have resulted in the immediate intervention of the session’s chairperson, Libyan Ambassador Najat al-Hajjaji.”

Samuels also called on the High commissioner to “censure Ms. al-Hajjaji for her abuse of power in not restraining Ramlawi’s excesses.”