{"id":121201,"date":"2021-02-08T15:12:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T20:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=121201"},"modified":"2021-02-08T15:43:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T20:43:19","slug":"biden-will-return-u-s-to-anti-israel-un-human-rights-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-will-return-u-s-to-anti-israel-un-human-rights-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Will Return U.S. To Anti-Israel UN Human Rights Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-will-return-u-s-to-anti-israel-un-human-rights-council%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=121201&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-97605752.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Monday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the Biden administration will return the U.S. to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Blinken tweeted:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The @UN Human Rights Council is flawed and needs reform, but walking away won\u2019t fix it. The best way to improve the Council, so it can achieve its potential, is through robust and principled U.S. leadership. Under @POTUS Biden, we are reengaging and ready to lead.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Blinken continued, \u201cWhen it works well, the @UN Human Rights Council shines a spotlight on countries with the worst human rights records and can serve as a beacon for those fighting against injustice and tyranny. That\u2019s why the U.S. is back at the table. When we work closely with our allies and friends, we are able to call countries with the worst human rights records to account in the @UN Human Rights Council. U.S. leadership matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UN<\/a> Human Rights Council is flawed and needs reform, but walking away won\u2019t fix it. The best way to improve the Council, so it can achieve its potential, is through robust and principled U.S. leadership. Under <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@POTUS<\/a> Biden, we are reengaging and ready to lead.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecBlinken\/status\/1358748569575038982?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When it works well, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UN<\/a> Human Rights Council shines a spotlight on countries with the worst human rights records and can serve as a beacon for those fighting against injustice and tyranny. That\u2019s why the U.S. is back at the table.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecBlinken\/status\/1358749177577103361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When we work closely with our allies and friends, we are able to call countries with the worst human rights records to account in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UN<\/a> Human Rights Council. U.S. leadership matters.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecBlinken\/status\/1358749734844923905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In 20188, former President Trump pulled out of UNHRC because of its nefarious track record targeting Israel. Israel had \u201creceived by far the largest number of critical council resolutions against any country,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-antony-blinken-israel-iran-nuclear-geneva-1090cf1c8eab924fdd0ee31b77dd7e5b\">AP noted<\/a>, adding, \u201cIn addition to the council\u2019s persistent focus on Israel, the Trump administration took issue with the body\u2019s membership, which currently includes China, Cuba, Eritrea, Russia and Venezuela, all of which have been accused of human rights abuses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In September 2017, former Vice President Mike Pence addressed the United Nations Security Council regarding UNHRC. He stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The Human Rights Council doesn\u2019t deserve its name. \u2026 Today, the United Nations Human Rights Council actually attracts and welcomes many of the worst human rights violators in the world. A clear majority of the Human Rights Council\u2019s members fail to meet even the most basic human rights standards. Cuba sits on the Human Rights Council, an oppressive regime that has repressed its people and jailed political opponents for more than half a century. Venezuela sits on the Human Rights Council, a dictatorship that undermines democracy at every turn, imprisons political opponents, and as we speak is advancing policies that worsen deprivation and poverty that\u2019s costing the lives of innocent men, women, and children.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This body must reform the Human Rights Council\u2019s membership and its operation. As to its operation, I think of what President John F. Kennedy warned more than 50 years ago, that the United Nations must not become in his words a \u201cforum for invective.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Unfortunately, today, the Human Rights Council has become exactly that, and particularly the Human Rights Council has become a forum for anti-Semitism and invective against Israel. The council\u2019s agenda item seven actually singles out Israel for discussion at every single meeting, something no other country must endure. As evidence, the Human Rights Council has passed more than 70 resolutions condemning Israel, while largely ignoring the world\u2019s worst human rights abusers.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In September 2018, following an attack by a 17-year-old Palestinian terrorist who&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/35968\/thousand-mourn-american-israeli-who-was-stabbed-kassy-dillon\">stabbed to death<\/a> Ari Fuld, an Israeli father of four, from behind, Hillel Neuer, the executive director of U.N. Watch, fired a furious fusillade at the U.N. Human Rights Council for its utter silence regarding the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Neuer stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Mr. President, someone whom I recently met in Jerusalem, Ari Fuld, was at a shopping mall a few miles away, in Gush Etzion, when he was stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist. A husband and father of four children, Ari lived and died as a hero. Despite his wounds, he chased and shot at his attacker, preventing further casualties, before collapsing to the ground. Hila Peretz, who was working nearby,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/with-fatal-stab-wound-victim-fuld-stopped-terrorist-from-attacking-mall-worker\/\">said,<\/a>\u201cHe gave his life for me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Now, I want to ask the United Nations and this council: Why has no official of this body condemned the murder? Why is the U.N. silent when Hamas and Islamic Jihad, supported by Iran, which just spoke here in this room, praised the murder? Why were they silent when the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, the military wing of Fatah, which belongs to the PA (Palestinian Authority), which sits here, welcomed the attack, stressing the necessity of \u201cresistance\u201d?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Why is the U.N. silent when according to reports, the family of the terrorist, Khalil Jabarin, has already been rewarded more than $3,000, and while the family stands to be paid&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/35984\/blood-money-palestinian-government-could-hand-17-hank-berrien\">an additional $1.7 million<\/a>over his lifetime? Why is this council, which is about to dedicate an entire day next week to condemning Israel, why have they refused to condemn the system known as \u201cpay-to-slay,\u201d a total budget of some $300 to $400 million dollars, 7% of the budget of the PA that is used to reward and financially incentivize the murder of Jews?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">VIDEO: I asked the UN Human Rights Council: \u201cWhy are you silent after a Palestinian terrorist stabbed to death American-Israeli citizen Ari Fuld? Why won&#8217;t you condemn the PA for incentivizing the murder of Jews by paying rewards to the families of terrorists?&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bEmMpYpHRI\">pic.twitter.com\/bEmMpYpHRI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillelNeuer\/status\/1042096597335715840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 18, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAlthough the U.S. will have only nonvoting observer status on the council through the end of 2021, the officials said the administration intends to seek one of three full member seats \u2014 currently held by Austria, Denmark and Italy \u2014 from the \u2018Western Europe and other states group\u2019 that come up for election later this year,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/blinken-says-us-returning-to-flawed-un-human-rights-council\/\">The Times of Israel<\/a> noted.<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the Biden administration will return the U.S. to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). 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