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Congress Laying Groundwork to Boycott U.N. Body After Rash of Anti-Israel Measures
U.N. Human Rights Council singled out for anti-Israel, anti-Semitic action
Congress is laying the groundwork to remove America from a United Nations human rights body that lawmakers claim uses American taxpayer funds to unduly target Israel for criticism and promote anti-Semitism, according to officials familiar with the effort.
A new congressional resolution gathering support among lawmakers calls out the U.N. Human Rights Council, or UNHRC, for what many allege is its virulently anti-Israel bias and urges the body to enact massive reforms or face a cut off of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars.
Story continues below advertisementRep. Joe Wilson (R., S.C.), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is spearheading the resolution, which puts the UNHRC on notice that its targeting of Israel could lead the United States to remove itself from the body and to consider cutting off some $23 million in funding.
The effort comes amid a push by not just the UNHRC but also a number of other U.N.-affiliated bodies to target Israel for criticism and promote boycotts of the Jewish state, an effort that many describe as anti-Semitic in nature.
The UNHRC was created in 2006, but the United States did not join the organization until 2009, when former President Barack Obama came into office.
The organization has long faced accusations of anti-Israel bias for having what many describe as an obsessive focus on the Jewish state. While the organization is tasked with promoting human rights across the globe, it has issued a record 78 condemnations of Israel in past years, while ignoring abuses by countries such as Iran, China, and Russia.
“The American people need to know this particular council has incredibly condemned Israel 78 times and North Korea nine times, and has never condemned the authoritarian conduct of China or Russia,” Wilson told the Washington Free Beacon. “It has targeted Israel more than any other country.”
By continuing to be a member of the UNHRC, the United States is “giving complicity to the outrageous conduct,” Wilson said.
The UNHRC most currently took up an effort to target U.S. companies that do business with Israel and to push them into cutting ties, an effort that fits in with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS), a global campaign to wage economic war on Israel.
Anne Bayefsky, a human rights scholar and head of the Touro College Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, said the U.N. efforts to blacklist American companies doing business with Israel is reason enough to withdraw from the organization.
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42 Comments
6 years ago
DEFUND the U.N. and MUSLIM countries and use the money to build OUR WALL!
Bribing then with “charity” no longer works. Besides money to places like Palestine use it for martyr money. Let MUSLIM countries give aid to fellow MUSLIM countries.
6 years ago
Reply to
Kat Mandu
What a schmuck! The ones killing “palestinian” babies are the murderous and cowardly palestinians themselves, who hide in kindergartens to shoot missiles randomly against Israeli civilians. That in addition to those other coward palestinians that send toddlers who can barely walk towards Israeli checkpoints, imposing a situation in which Israelis would be forced to harm the little children. To the chagrin of these murderous muslim cowards, Israelis seldom fall into the trap and rather put the child out of harms’ way.
Luckily to the palestinian scumbags, they are dealing with Israelis. If they had tried their muslim antics against say, the Chinese or the Russians, or even Syrians ot Iranians, they would have been wiped out long ago. These other foes would have had no problem whatsoever in killing palestinian babies by the truckloads. If not, ask Bashar al Assad. Thousands of Syrian children have been murdered by his thugs, and no single condemnation comes from the likes of you.
6 years ago
Reply to
Kat Mandu
Mecca/Kaaba coordinates:
Latitude: N 21° 24′ 6.7133″
Longitude: E 39° 51′ 52.3357″
“It’s the only way to be sure…”
D
6 years ago
Reply to
Daniel FX Dravot
Careful! One must not destroy the mohammadans’ IDOL that sits in the corner of the black square shack that is called allah.
They will just have to collect another group of black meteors, glue them together and call them allah.
6 years ago
Israel Tortured 60% of Palestinian Children Detained at Israeli Prisons http://theantimedia.org/israel-tortured-60-palestinian-children-arrested/?utm_source=The+Anti-Media+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e948ba0e25-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_177e8c8195-e948ba0e25-25645381
6 years ago
Reply to
Kat Mandu
What did they do to get into these prisons? A dam good spanking would do them a world of good, with a swift kick in the asss to their parents.
6 years ago
Reply to
Kat Mandu
They allowed those vermin to survive? Shame on Israel. Next time, do it the moslem way … and there won’t be any recidivism … put them ALL to the sword.
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
Can you imagine what the modern states of Israel and India would be like if they didn’t have muslum parasites dragging them down?
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
Israel would be far better. I don’t know if there is any hope, for India, with or without moslems.
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
There are so many muslums in India and as they say quantity has a quality all its own.
D
6 years ago
Reply to
Kat Mandu
Do you gain virgin rewards points for every lie you spread for allah the barbarian? I guess you gotta earn those 72 virgins somehow, then again maybe it’s the little boys you’re after…
6 years ago
Reply to
Kat Mandu
that is not torture…….it is the end result of breaking the law….jail is a bitch,unless you are in sweden
6 years ago
Reply to
Kat Mandu
But how many Palestinians has Hamas alone killed over the past decade or so?
6 years ago
America would do well to completely withdraw from the useless abominations, as it serves no purpose other than to create conflict and prevent any resolution to issues.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Agree. conservatives, patriots have to take a stand against the Left/Liberal pro-jihadi mafia.
Hungary has been leading the fightback against the pro-jihadi mafia of Europe. They even expelled left/Liberal pro-jihadi ambassador http://bit.ly/2gh6A72
…for supporting the jihadi immigrants ! unheard of courage !
6 years ago
Hallelujah , More blessings
6 years ago
Muslums and human rights go together like jellied eel and peanut butter.
6 years ago
We need to leave the U(seless) N(ations) and kick them out of N.Y….period. Let the go to the muslim countries they so love defending.
6 years ago
The U.N. allowed North Korea of all nations (despite its many human rights violations) to become a member state, but is somehow against Israel? What hypocrisy.
D
6 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
One must remember WHO controls the “un”. FYI: muslems.
One must look at the “human rights” that the “un” adheres to. You will find the original directions in the koorann and the haaadiths.
6 years ago
BOYCOTT?? Why don’t you dismantle it instead of letting CREDENCE to it??
6 years ago
It is long over due that the United States got out of the United Nations . Now would be a great time to do it . The un is a crrouptt organization that buss been against every thing the United States beleives . Get out out now and throw them out of the us . Buck a Christian 100% disabled Vietnam veteran ??⚔?? right wing republican life time member NRA and friend to Israel
6 years ago
Just imagine the money making real estate venture that could be realized by some sharp developer on that prime piece of Manhattan property were the UN thrown in the trash heap where it belongs.
All those NYC hookers would have to get off their backs to earn a living.
6 years ago
“some $23 million”, aren’t we spending mych more than that, cut it ALL off!
6 years ago
Turn the un into a parking lot. That should take care of the problem once and for all neighbor.
6 years ago
get out of the UN America. Period.
6 years ago
Reply to
mezcukor
Get the un out of America was well. The building is urban blight, put it to better use, as an international whore house it is unnecessary.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
“Around the world” would finally have real meaning if the u.n. was turned into a whore house.
6 years ago
After the Congress passed its bill condemning islamophobia I have zero faith in them.
D
6 years ago
Remove $28,000,000.00 from the “un”?
PLEASE NO!!!!!!!!!
Instead, remove ANY and ALL funding, both monetary or equipment wise, from the “un” elites’ cabal party. America should NOT be supporting any foreign national totalitarian or democRATically controlled cabal. America IS a SOVEREIGN Constitutional Representative NATION. America does NOT have to follow ANY directive, memo, ditto or rule that any foreign individual, group or country tries to IMPOSE upon the American People.
6 years ago
muslims have destroyed the united nations by turning it into a rubber stamp for hatred of Israel and every other faith. The next thing muslims will do, is destroy islam by internal fighting and their intrinsic greed and stupidity. It will be a day to rejoice seeing islam crumble.
