Obama admin. engaged in "diplomatic malpractice," specifically at the Human Rights Council, more generally at the United Nations as a whole, by indulging their hatefests. Hopefully, President Trump will succeed in reversing this destructive course
Trump Administration Boycotts UN Human Rights Council's Anti-Israel Hatefest
The Trump administration decided to boycott the United Nations Human Rights Council's special session bashing Israel this week. The Council is devoting time, during its regular annual month-long meeting in March, to take up 'Agenda Item 7' dealing with the "human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories." Israel is the only country in the world that is targeted under such a special agenda item during the Council's regular sessions, held three times a year. The Human Rights Council uses this vehicle to concentrate its venom on Israel, with the objective of delegitimizing the Jewish state. Later this year, the Council plans to follow up on its request for production of a database of businesses involved with West Bank settlements, for the purpose of creating a blacklist of firms that countries and the UN itself will be pressured to boycott.
The misnamed Human Rights Council counts among its members such human rights abusing Islamic countries as Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Under pressure from the Palestinians and the Islamic states supporting them, it is the Jewish state of Israel that captures the Council's obsessive attention. In fact, the Human Rights Council has adopted more resolutions condemning Israel than all of the other 192 member states of the United Nations combined. At last year's month-long meeting, held around this same time, the Human Rights Council sought fit to issue five resolutions against Israel, while Syria, North Korea and Iran were the subject of only one resolution each. Saudi Arabia got off scot-free.
