Given its murderous attacks on UN staff in Gaza and declaration of its chief as ‘persona non grata’, it’s about time to invoke Article 6 of the UN Charter to expel the rogue state.

Suppose you are a member of a club that you hate and despise so much you have denounced some of its staff as criminals and started killing them en masse. You have denounced the club president as a non-person and theatrically shredded a copy of its constitutional charter on stage at a general meeting for all members.

The question is not so much whether you should have been expelled already as a minimal response from the club, in addition to calling the police. Rather you should ask yourself why you want to stay and pay your dues as a member at all.

These questions have been raised by prominent journalist Mehdi Hasan in a new op-ed in The Guardian and a legal analysis by Saul Takahashi, a human rights professor at Osaka Jogakuin University and former deputy head of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Palestine.

“Why has it [Israel] not yet been expelled from an organisation that it is relentlessly and shamelessly attacking and undermining?” Hasan wrote.

“Sure, there are other human rights abusers that........

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