Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday called former President Jimmy Carter “a bigot” for meeting with the leader of the militant Hamas movement in Syria.

Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, “went to the region with soiled hands and came back with bloody hands after shaking the hand of Khaled Mashaal, the leader of Hamas,” Ambassador Dan Gillerman told a luncheon briefing for reporters.

The Ambassador should be applauded for speaking the truth about the former President. Carter proved once an for all that he is no friend of Israel. This most recent misadventure is merely the latest attempt by Carter to further his anti-Israel crusade.

Gillerman wasn’t through with Carter yet:

The ambassador called last weekend’s encounter “a very sad episode in American history.”

He said it was “a shame” to see Carter, who had done “good things” as a former president, “turn into what I believe to be a bigot.”

Carter has had a fetish for dictators and terrorists for years, but he finally went too far this time.

-Chris Jones