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CNN anchor Jake Tapper on Thursday lambasted United Nations member countries that are serial human rights violators but voted to condemn the U.S. decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, describing them as hypocritical for "lecturing" Washington about peace, human rights, and stability.
Earlier on Thursday, 128 countries supported a non-binding U.N. General Assembly resolution that condemned the U.S. for recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital and for deciding to move its embassy there, while nine voted "no" and 35 nations abstained. Some of the countries that voted for the resolution have records of egregious human rights violations, and their representatives at the U.N. spoke before the General Assembly to criticize the U.S. and Israel.
Tapper called out these states for castigating the U.S. while abusing their own citizens.
"Among the 128 that voted to condemn the U.S. on this issue were some countries with some rather questionable records of their own," Tapper said. "Take Venezuela's representative today."
Tapper then played a clip of Samuel Moncada, Venezuela's representative to the U.N., telling the General Assembly that the U.S. "threatens global peace."
Venezuela, which continues to experience a humanitarian disaster amid an economic collapse due to government mismanagement, has been ravaged by malnutrition and violent protests as the government has cracked down on dissent.
"On what moral platform does the government of Venezuela stand today?" Tapper asked.