US rejoining UN Human Rights Council; what it should do first

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The United States on Thursday won a seat on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) beginning in January 2022, with the Biden administration vowing to prove it can reform the council from within. Biden's first test: dissolving the council's one-sided commission of inquiry on Israel.

In a statement issued moments after the UNHRC election results were announced, Secretary of State Antony Blinken put anti-Israel bias at the top of the Biden administration's reform agenda. The council, he said, "suffers from serious flaws, including disproportionate attention on Israel and the membership of several states with egregious human rights records."

Indeed, the council's obsession with castigating Israel has long been atop the list of criticisms leveled against it. Since the council's creation, it has adopted more resolutions condemning Israel than every other country in the world combined. In contrast, the council has adopted zero resolutions on the gross human rights abuses in China, Cuba, and Russia.

In addition, Israel is the only country to which the council dedicates a standing agenda item. As if Israel - a democracy rated by the respected Freedom House as a free country, which boasts Arabs on its Supreme Court, in its parliament and in its coalition government - were the world's leading abuser of human rights.

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