The U.N.’s top human rights body defied the U.S. today by adopting a Cuban-led  “right to peace”  resolution that  endorses resistance against “foreign occupation,” for the first time granting  U.N. Human Rights Council legitimization of the terminology used by Middle East  extremists to justify terrorist attacks against Americans and  Israelis.

Initiated by Cuba, the resolution’s co-sponsors included Syria, Iran, North  Korea, Sudan, Belarus, China, Palestine, Sri Lanka, Venezuela, Bolivia and  Nicaragua.

The Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch expressed serious concerns over  the text.

“The U.N. was founded on moral clarity,” said UN Watch executive  director Hillel Neuer, “yet today the Syrian regime, which denies its people the  right to life, was allowed to join with Iran, North Korea and other tyrannies to  cynically present themselves as champions of peace.”