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Source: https://www.jpost.com/international/article-724546
U.S. Pushes UN Not to Update Israeli Settlement Blacklist
(Jerusalem Post) Tovah Lazaroff - A UN database of companies that operated over the pre-1967 lines, which Israel has dubbed "the blacklist," was first published in 2020 by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva in fulfillment of a request by the UN Human Rights Council. U.S. State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel said on Friday, "The U.S. opposes the creation of this database...and continues to oppose any work to update it." The UN has not generated a similar list for any other countries. The Biden administration has argued that the UN's bias against the Jewish state makes it impossible to support the UN blacklist. "The database only serves to reinforce an anti-Israeli bias that too often finds traction in UN venues," Patel said.