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Source: https://www.jns.org/opinion/an-end-to-the-uns-human-rights-farce/
An End to the UN's Human-Rights Farce
(JNS.org) Jonathan S. Tobin - The merits of the case for the U.S. leaving the UN Human Rights Council are unassailable. With the ranks of its member nations swollen by some of the worst human-rights offenders, the Council has become a parody of advocacy for the cause of freedom. Some claim that the U.S. could do more good by remaining in the Council than by leaving it. But during the past eight years, human-rights offenders have laughed at the empty rhetoric of U.S. representatives. Every year, the Council continued to pass resolution after resolution damning Israel and barely paying attention to real catastrophes. Secure in the belief that the U.S. and the European democracies were too invested in this institution to hold it accountable, the Council became more irresponsible and outrageous as every measure of Israeli self-defense against terror was falsely labeled as a crime.