After the US was reelected by the United Nations General Assembly to a new term on the Human Rights Council, Secretary of State John Kerry insisted the Council focus on human rights issues around the world and cease attacking the State of Israel.
Kerry blasted the UN Human Rights Council, pointing to an unbalanced focus on Israel and noting that this obsession undermines the organization's credibility.
The EU should follow the US' decision and leave 'that farce of a UN body called Human Rights Council,' said Czech Member of the European Parliament Tomas Zdechovsky.
Haley decried the UNHRC for its failure to address real human rights abuses, while warning that if it did not cease with its obsessive anti-Israel bias, the US would quit the council.
"This bill simply puts into law what should be common sense: Americans’ tax dollars should not fund anti-Semitic activities or nefarious efforts to undermine the legitimacy of Israel,” said Cotton.
A bill, which is receiving bipartisan support in the House, will combat the anti-Israel BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement and attempts to pressure the Jewish State through sanctions.
The UN Human Rights Council is a farce, a United Nations body that includes human rights abusers as members and which ignores true atrocities and instead focuses on the sole democracy in the Middle East - Israel.
"The Human Rights Council is only obsessed with the fate of the Palestinians, and prefers to close its eyes to other critical human rights violations. It consistently disregards the human rights of Israelis..." said Israel's ambassador to the UN in Geneva.
US officials have announced they will seek membership in the UN Human Rights Council, an anti-Israel body whose members include human rights violators who maintain an unfair obsession with Israel and consistently pass biased resolutions against the Jewish state.
Israel’s ambassador criticized the election of Venezuela, a dictatorship and ally of Iran, to the UN Human Rights Council. The UNHRC unfairly condemns Israel in nearly 40% of its country-specific resolutions.
Saudi Arabia may have beheaded more people in the last year than ISIS, but only rarely do any of these cases get more than a flicker of international attention.
The UN Human Rights Council adopted a report accusing Israel of committing war crimes in its fight against Hamas. Those afraid to condemn terror will become victims, Netanyahu warned.
US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power said that the US defends Israel "day in and day out," but she did not out rule support for resolutions imposing a two-state solution.
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