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Sebastian Hughes – October 14, 2021<\/p>\n
The Biden administration announced Thursday that the U.S. would officially rejoin the UN Human Rights Council, a reversal of the Trump administration\u2019s decision to leave the body, in part due to its \u201cunending hostility towards Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cStarting on January 1, 2022, in our new role as member, we can fully participate in the Council\u2019s work of protecting and promoting human rights,\u201d Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield<\/a> said<\/a> in a statement Thursday. \u201cOur goals are clear: stand with human rights defenders and speak out against violations and abuses of human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n The U.S. left the council during the Trump administration, with then-Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley describing the council itself as a \u201chypocritical and self-serving\u201d organization with a \u201cdisproportionate focus and unending hostility toward Israel,\u201d Reuters reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n Haley<\/a> said that members of the council such as Russia, China, Cuba and Egypt have a history of human rights abuses, and she criticized countries sharing U.S. interests that \u201cwere unwilling to seriously challenge the status quo.\u201d<\/p>\n Then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made similar statements about the decision to leave, accusing the council of \u201cabsolving wrongdoers through silence and falsely condemning those that committed no offense,\u201d Reuters reported.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.wnd.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sebastian Hughes – October 14, 2021 The Biden administration announced Thursday that the U.S. would officially rejoin the UN Human Rights Council, a reversal of the Trump administration\u2019s decision to leave the body, in part due to its \u201cunending hostility towards Israel.\u201d \u201cStarting on January 1, 2022, in our new role as member, we can … Continue reading Biden rejoins U.N. council notorious for ‘unending hostility toward Israel’<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[55,15734,8769,241,972],"class_list":["post-20277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-horse","tag-israel","tag-linda-thomas-greenfield","tag-mike-pompeo","tag-persecution","tag-un-human-rights-council"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-5h3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20279,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20277\/revisions\/20279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}