{"id":2398367,"date":"2025-02-03T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-withdrawals-us-from-unhrc-and-stops-unrwa-funding\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T16:40:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T21:40:52","slug":"trump-withdrawals-us-from-unhrc-and-stops-unrwa-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-withdrawals-us-from-unhrc-and-stops-unrwa-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump withdrawals US from UNHRC and stops UNRWA funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Ftrump-withdrawals-us-from-unhrc-and-stops-unrwa-funding%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=2398367&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>President Donald Trump \u200chas issued an executive order withdrawing the United States from the United Nations\u200b Human rights Council\u200b (UNHRC) and stopping funding for the \u200cUnited Nations Relief\u200b and Works Agency for\u200b Palestine\u200b Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). This decision, made on the eve\u2062 of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin\u200d Netanyahu, reinstates policies from trump&#8217;s earlier management, though the Middle East landscape has changed substantially since then. <\/p>\n<p>The UNRWA plays a critical\u2064 role \u200cin\u200b supporting \u2064over two million Palestinians in \u2063Gaza, a region impacted by \u200congoing conflict. However, the institution has\u2064 faced allegations of ties to terrorist\u200c activities following the \u200bHamas\u200d attack on October \u200c7, 2023. A UN\u200d investigation confirmed that several employees were involved in the attack. <\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s \u200dactions have been praised by former Congresswoman Elise\u2062 Stefanik, who commended the withdrawal\u2064 from the UNHRC, labeling it as a \u2062&#8221;den of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-left-wing-foundations-bankroll-activists-behind-anti-israel-campaign-propaganda\/\" title=\"Top left-wing foundations bankroll activists behind anti-Israel campaign: &#039;Propaganda&#039;\">human\u2062 rights abusers<\/a>.&#8221; Critics \u2064have noted the council&#8217;s perceived bias against Israel, with a disproportionate number of resolutions targeting the country in comparison to\u200c others with serious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/saudi-court-jails-womens-rights-activist-posing-challenge-for-biden\/\" title=\"Saudi court jails women\u2019s rights activist, posing challenge for Biden\">human rights violations<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The executive order also raises concerns about the \u200dfuture functionality of the U.S.Agency for International Development\u200b (USAID), which has been under scrutiny by Trump as\u200d well. The overall narrative reflects Trump&#8217;s\u200d &#8220;America First&#8221;\u200b policy and a\u200b strong stance against perceived\u200d biases within international organizations regarding \u2064Israel.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump withdraws US from UNHRC and stops UNRWA funding<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1550766\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> signed an executive order on Monday withdrawing the U.S. from the U.N. Human Rights Council and prohibiting future funding for the U.N. relief agency for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/gaza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Gaza<\/a> known as UNRWA, a White House source told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The executive order reinstates policies that Trump had in place during his first administration, though the Middle East looks vastly different than when he left the White House. It also comes a day before he&rsquo;s set to meet with Israeli Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/benjamin-netanyahu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UNRWA serves as the primary support system for the more than 2 million Palestinians in Gaza affected by the war, which has gone on for more than 15 months, but Israel has banned the entity from operating within its borders over allegations that several members of the U.N. agency participated in the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack; the worst in Israel&rsquo;s history.<\/p>\n<p>A high-level investigation by the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services in 2024 found that nine employees participated in the Oct. 7 attacks, and they did not find sufficient evidence against a further 10 individuals whom the Israeli government accused of playing a role.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3299993\/elise-stefanik-israel-antisemitic-rot-united-nations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"ELISE STEFANIK, ISRAEL, AND THE &lsquo;ANTISEMITIC ROT&rsquo; AT THE UN\"><strong>ELISE STEFANIK, ISRAEL, AND THE &lsquo;ANTISEMITIC ROT&rsquo; AT THE UN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Israel and the United Nations have a historically rocky relationship, and it worsened significantly after Hamas&rsquo;s attack.<\/p>\n<p>Former congresswoman Elise Stefanik, Trump&rsquo;s pick to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, praised the president&rsquo;s decision on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Today&rsquo;s Executive Order is the correct action by President Trump to deliver America First peace through strength moral leadership,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;The UN Human Rights Council is a den of human rights abusers and disgraceful and obsessive antisemitism. UNRWA must be defunded and dismantled. U.S. taxpayers dollars should NEVER prop up terrorism. Full stop.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. Human Rights Council was created during the George W. Bush administration, but he and Trump, in his first term, did not engage with it, whereas, Under Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, they did.<\/p>\n<p>The White House said in a fact sheet the council &ldquo;has not fulfilled its purpose and continues to be used as a protective body for countries committing horrific human rights violations&rdquo; and condemned its stance on Israel, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/02\/03\/us-withdraw-un-human-rights-council-trump-00202100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The UNHRC has demonstrated consistent bias against Israel, focusing on it unfairly and disproportionately in council proceedings,&rdquo; the document added. &ldquo;In 2018, the year President Trump withdrew from the UNHRC in his first administration, the organization passed more resolutions condemning Israel than Syria, Iran, and North Korea combined.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s executive order also comes as his administration has halted the work of the United States Agency for International Development, which <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">promotes human rights abroad<\/a>, calling into question whether it will remain at all.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s been run by a bunch of radical lunatics, and we&rsquo;re getting them out,&rdquo; Trump told reporters on Sunday, while Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) leader&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a>&nbsp;announced his plan to shut the agency down.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1550766\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1550766\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump pulls US from UNHRC and halts UNRWA funding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2671,"featured_media":2398368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AP25034641804565.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4551,39173,3634,49741,42743],"class_list":["post-2398367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foreign-policy","tag-funding-cuts","tag-trump","tag-unhrc","tag-unrwa"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AP25034641804565.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398367","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\/2671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2398367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2398371,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398367\/revisions\/2398371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2398368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2398367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2398367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2398367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}