To its credit, the U.S. State Department has complained about the “persistent bias” against the Jewish state that emanates from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). But it has also indicated that the U.S. intends to remain on the council. In doing so, Jonathan Tobin argues, it is only exacerbating the body’s defects:
The argument for staying in the UNHRC has always been that the U.S. could accomplish more by staying in it than by boycotting it. But the systematic bias against the one Jewish state on the planet is not an exception to an otherwise fine record but actually key to understanding why it does little to advance human rights. By diverting the UN’s attention to an embattled democracy that tries to save the lives even of its foes, the UNHRC does more to harm that cause than to help it. Moreover, by giving it the imprimatur of U.S. participation, the administration has legitimized the very anti-Semitism that it says it wishes to oppose.
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