(JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last week that Israel faces a double standard at the world body.

When the two leaders met in New York, Netanyahu “declared that there was no justice in the fact that the standard applied to Israel was different than that applied to other countries,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement, referring to the high death toll in the Syrian civil war while Israel, not Syria, is frequently targeted for criticism at the U.N. Calling the U.N.’s criticism of Israel “disproportionate,” Netanyahu said that unlike Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the Jewish state does not direct attacks at civilians.