Even the AP has noticed the council’s anti-Israel bias.
The UN Human Rights Council on Monday passed two resolutions criticizing Israel, but kept its record intact of singling out no other country for human rights abuses.
The 47-nation council, which has censured only Israel since it began operating six months ago, this time took the Jewish state to task for its occupation of Syria’s Golan Heights and for building settlements in occupied Arab territories.
The council voted 32-1 with 14 abstentions to declare illegal Israel’s 1981 annexation of the Golan Heights and demand that Israel rescind its decision to impose its laws and jurisdiction on the area, which it captured in the 1967 Middle East war. Canada, which said the resolution was unbalanced, was the only no vote, and European Union members abstained.
Then it voted 45-1 to demand Israel reverse its policy of building and expanding settlements as a first step toward dismantling them. Again, Canada was the only country to vote against the resolution.
The United States and Israel are not members, but Israel’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva said Syria had proposed the Golan Heights resolution “purely to draw attention away from its … own deplorable human rights record.”
You know it’s got to be a major bias when the AP notices it. Wow.
Why should Israel trust the UN ?
The function of the UN Human Rights Council is to denounce the only countries in the world where human rights are safeguarded.