I bet liberals don't know that Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo sit on the so-called "UN Human Rights Council" (UNHRC). I also bet that liberals don't know that the UNHRC's predecessor organization, the UN Commission on Human Rights, was disbanded in 2006 because even the UN realized it had lost all credibility.
Anyway, after the most recent spat of outrageous anti-Israeli polemic from the UNHRC, the U.S. has finally had enough and has withdrawn from that pro-terrorist, anti-democracy, anti-Israeli group. Here's an excerpt from a recent New York Post editorial on why pulling out was the moral thing to do:
The Federalist website provides us with more info on the UNHRC:
If you wanna get some idea of just how bad the UNHRC has been, here is some reading for you:
Terror victims son to UNHRC: You encourage murder
Hamas Archives - UN Watch
The U.N. Human Rights Council Does Not Deserve U.S. Support
Articles - Ending The 'Theater of the Absurd' At The UNHRC (Gregg Roman)
Articles - New report confirms Trump wise to leave UN Human Rights Council (Liz Peek)
Articles - Leaving the UN Human Rights Council Was the Right Decision (Yoram Ettinger)
UN Human Rights Council Is A Sham, And The US Is Right To Leave It
Liberman: UN Human Rights Council has become a cheerleader for terrorists
UN Human Rights Council: 'History of hypocrisy'
Liberman urges exit from UN Human Rights Council; Israel not a member
Comment: UN Human Rights Council's unbridled hypocrisy toward Israel
ADL Condemns "Boundless Hypocrisy" of Another Biased U.N. Human Rights Council Resolution Against Israel
Anyway, after the most recent spat of outrageous anti-Israeli polemic from the UNHRC, the U.S. has finally had enough and has withdrawn from that pro-terrorist, anti-democracy, anti-Israeli group. Here's an excerpt from a recent New York Post editorial on why pulling out was the moral thing to do:
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Ambassador Nikki Haley on Tuesday announced the United States is quitting the UN Human Rights Council — which, as Pompeo put it, is “an exercise in shameless hypocrisy” whose members include serious abusers of the rights it supposedly aims to protect.
Plus, it’s obsessed with bashing Israel, condemning the Jewish state 70 times on various trumped-up charges over the last 12 years, far more attention than it’s given to actual human-rights violations in the entire rest of the world. (https://nypost.com/2018/06/20/leaving-the-un-human-rights-council-was-the-moral-choice/)
The Federalist website provides us with more info on the UNHRC:
The Geneva-based body was established in 2006 as the successor organization to the Human Rights Commission. Seeing no reason to grant the new body legitimacy, the Bush administration decided against seeking membership because some of the world’s worst criminal regimes and serial abusers would be included in its rotating membership of 47 states. That changed in 2009 with the “outstretched hand” policy of the Obama administration, which included the decision to join the council and seek its salvation from within.
A look at the record of the world body reveals the alternative reality it inhabits. From 2006 until 2016, the UNHCR condemned Israel 68 times. By way of contrast, Syria, home to one of the bloodiest civil wars of this century, was condemned only 20 times. North Korea, which operates forced labor camps, and Iran, under a regime that brutally crushed a peaceful protest movement in 2009 and hangs citizens for the crime of homosexuality, were only condemned nine and six times respectively.
The list of states and organizations never condemned during that decade-long period is equally impressive. It includes Russia, which targets hospitals and schools as a matter of course in Syria, and Turkey, which holds the current record for jailing journalists. Also left off the list is the Palestinian Authority, which runs a “pay to slay” program where it rewards Palestinian families who carry out bombings, stabbings, and other attacks against Israelis; and Islamic Jihad and Hamas, both of which continue to launch rockets and missiles at Israeli civilians from Gaza. (UN Human Rights Council Is A Sham, And The US Is Right To Leave It)
If you wanna get some idea of just how bad the UNHRC has been, here is some reading for you:
Terror victims son to UNHRC: You encourage murder
Hamas Archives - UN Watch
The U.N. Human Rights Council Does Not Deserve U.S. Support
Articles - Ending The 'Theater of the Absurd' At The UNHRC (Gregg Roman)
Articles - New report confirms Trump wise to leave UN Human Rights Council (Liz Peek)
Articles - Leaving the UN Human Rights Council Was the Right Decision (Yoram Ettinger)
UN Human Rights Council Is A Sham, And The US Is Right To Leave It
Liberman: UN Human Rights Council has become a cheerleader for terrorists
UN Human Rights Council: 'History of hypocrisy'
Liberman urges exit from UN Human Rights Council; Israel not a member
Comment: UN Human Rights Council's unbridled hypocrisy toward Israel
ADL Condemns "Boundless Hypocrisy" of Another Biased U.N. Human Rights Council Resolution Against Israel