Biden admin rejoins UN council criticized for ‘unending hostility towards Israel’

Sebastian Hughes, DCNF

The Biden administration launched Thursday that the U.S. would formally rejoin the UN Human Rights Council, a reversal of the Trump administration’s decision to depart the physique, partially ensuing from its “countless hostility within the route of Israel.”

“Starting on January 1, 2022, in our new place as member, we’re capable of completely participate inside the Council’s work of defending and promoting human rights,” Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said in a press launch Thursday. “Our targets are clear: stand with human rights defenders and talk out in opposition to violations and abuses of human rights.”

The U.S. left the council by the Trump administration, with then-Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley describing the council itself as a “hypocritical and self-serving” group with a “disproportionate focus and countless hostility in direction of Israel,” Reuters reported.

Haley said that members of the council resembling Russia, China, Cuba and Egypt have a historic previous of human rights abuses, and he or she criticized worldwide places sharing U.S. pursuits that “have been unwilling to considerably downside the established order.”

Then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made comparable statements regarding the decision to depart, accusing the council of “absolving wrongdoers by the use of silence and falsely condemning individuals who devoted no offense,” Reuters reported.

Thomas-Greenfield said the U.S. would “oppose the Council’s disproportionate consideration on Israel,” and Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Biden administration would be sure the council “upholds its highest aspirations and better helps these stopping in opposition to injustice and tyranny world broad.”

“If President Biden actually cared about human rights, he would protect us far-off from the cesspool that’s the UN Human Rights Council,” Haley said in a press launch to the Every day Caller Information Foundation.

“America left it under President Trump because of we refused to lend our credibility, as basically essentially the most generous nation on the earth, to cowl for the world’s worst tyrants and dictators,” she added. “His actions proper now aren’t merely embarrassing; they’re dangerous.”

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