{"id":1417669,"date":"2022-04-04T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1417669"},"modified":"2022-04-04T09:00:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T13:00:18","slug":"u-n-human-rights-council-approves-four-anti-israel-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-n-human-rights-council-approves-four-anti-israel-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"U.N. Human Rights Council Approves Four anti-Israel Resolutions"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fu-n-human-rights-council-approves-four-anti-israel-resolutions%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=1417669&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--><p class=\"subheading\">The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) approved four anti-Israel resolutions as it wrapped up its 49th session, including a call for a limited arms embargo, while Russia received a single resolution condemning its invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Israel was the only country to receive more than one resolution against it.\u00a0 North Korea, Iran, Belarus, Myanmar, Nicaragua, and Syria received one resolution apiece for human rights abuses.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The\u00a0Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20220331-human-rights-council-adopts-first-resolution-in-favour-of-palestine\/\">welcomed<\/a> the resolution calling for a limited arms embargo against Israel, saying it\u00a0reflected \u201cthe principled position of the member states on the importance of accountability of the Israeli colonial and apartheid regime\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The vote passed with 37-3, with seven abstentions.\u00a0Brazil, Malawi, and the U.S. voted against.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2021\/02\/08\/reversing-trump-biden-administration-returns-to-un-human-rights-council\/\">rejoined the council<\/a>,\u00a0three years after former President Donald Trump withdrew from the\u00a0<span class=\"il\">U.N.<\/span>\u00a0agency over its anti-Israel bias.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s envoy to the U.N. Michele Taylor said the Biden administration was \u201cdisappointed that [UNHRC] member States continue to disproportionately single out Israel and are dismayed by the many repetitive and one-sided resolutions that run year after year.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20508068\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239721039.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A mass grave in the town of Bucha, northwest of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on April 3, 2022. Ukraine and Western nations accused Russian troops of war crimes after the discovery of mass graves and \u201cexecuted\u201d civilians near Kyiv, prompting vows of action at the International Criminal Court. (SERGEI SUPINSKY\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The resolution <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-703093\">called<\/a> for\u00a0\u201call states to refrain from transferring arms when, .. they assess that there is a clear risk that such arms might be used to commit or facilitate serious violations or abuses of international human rights law or serious violations of international humanitarian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinian Ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva Ibrahim Khraishi emphasized Israel should be held accountable for its actions against the Palestinians.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Russia\u2019s President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is a victim of \u201ccancel culture\u201d like Harry Potter author JK Rowling.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bzAnUtOtdR\">https:\/\/t.co\/bzAnUtOtdR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1507428255594332166?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis draft resolution should ensure justice and should hold to account all those who violate international humanitarian law and \u2026 to provide reparation and compensation to the [Palestinian] loved one of the victims,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The other three resolutions were under Agenda Item 7. Both Israel and the U.S., under the Trump administration, have\u00a0tried unsuccessfully get rid of\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Agenda<\/span>\u00a0Item\u00a0<span class=\"il\">7<\/span>, which mandates that alleged Israeli\u00a0human\u00a0rights\u00a0abuses are discussed at each season, and is the only measure of its kind.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20508086\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239719229.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20508086\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239719229-1024x692-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"669\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A partially buried body is seen in a mass grave in the town of Bucha, northwest of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on April 3, 2022. (SERGEI SUPINSKY\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cNo other country \u2013 not Iran, not Syria, not North Korea \u2013 has an\u00a0<span class=\"il\">agenda<\/span>\u00a0item devoted solely to it.\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Agenda<\/span>\u00a0Item\u00a0<span class=\"il\">7<\/span>\u00a0is not directed at anything Israel does. It is directed at the very existence of Israel. It is a blazing red siren signaling the\u00a0Human\u00a0Rights\u00a0Council\u2019s political corruption and moral bankruptcy,\u201d former U.S. envoy to the U.N. Nikki Haley said last year.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s U.N. mission joked on Twitter the Agenda item had been abolished.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnsuring human rights is not a joke. But Item 7 is. It is not about human rights. It is only a relic of a darker past. A relic whose only goal is to demonize Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, on #AprilsFools, it is time for #HRC49 to embrace reality and oppose Item 7,\u201d the mission wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BREAKING?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BREAKING<\/a>: The Human Rights Council abolishes Item 7 from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UN_HRC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UN_HRC<\/a> Permanent Agenda! After 16 years of diplomatic fight, the world came to reason! An important day for Israel and the world. An essential step for the credibility of the Council. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HRC49?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HRC49<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vPUXsNHmkR\">pic.twitter.com\/vPUXsNHmkR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Israel in UN\/Geneva\ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf3 #HRC49 (@IsraelinGeneva) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IsraelinGeneva\/status\/1509819107440574471?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The U.N. also announced over the weekend that it had appointed Francesca Albanese as Special Rapporteur on \u201cthe situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories.\u00a0According to Hillel Neuer, head of monitoring group UN Watch, Albanese has a \u201cdocumented obsession with comparing Israelis to Nazis and exulting in calling the Jewish state an \u2018apartheid\u2019 regime.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is not an April Fools joke. The U.N. just appointed <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FranceskAlb?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FranceskAlb<\/a> as their impartial and objective investigator of Israel for the next six years despite her documented obsession with comparing Israelis to Nazis and exulting in calling the Jewish state an \u201capartheid\u201d regime. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HpzkEiTBaM\">https:\/\/t.co\/HpzkEiTBaM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bf6sQx5I6V\">pic.twitter.com\/bf6sQx5I6V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UN Watch (@UNWatch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UNWatch\/status\/1510075680037474316?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today&#8217;s appointment constitutes a gross breach of the Human Rights Council&#8217;s own rules, which require  impartiality for such posts. Francesca Albanese is the opposite: a lifelong supporter of the maximalist Palestinian agenda and an avowed hater of Israel. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zQ1T3OxyN0\">https:\/\/t.co\/zQ1T3OxyN0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UN Watch (@UNWatch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UNWatch\/status\/1510076876177514512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) approved four anti-Israel resolutions as it wrapped up its 49th session, including a call for a limited arms embargo, while Russia received a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}