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TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the International Criminal Court’s rejection of a request to investigate U.S. troops for possible war crimes in Afghanistan, and added that it bodes well for Israel. 

China’s state media outlets praised official Zhang Jun and its United Nations delegation on Monday for celebrating the country’s alleged human rights progress before the international forum, failing to mention Communist Party leader Xi Jinping’s expansion of political re-education camps and terror campaigns against religious minorities.

TEL AVIV – U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley slammed the United Nations Human Rights Council as being a “bully pulpit for human rights violators” and said that its controversial Agenda Item 7 is designed to undermine Israel’s existence in an interview with the Heritage Foundation in Washington on Wednesday.

Europe has used its power in international institutions and its financial power to advance one consistent policy position: hostility towards Israel.

Israel on Tuesday night welcomed an announcement that the United States will withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council, praising the move as a “courageous decision against the hypocrisy and the lies” of the international body that UN ambassador Nikki Haley said harbors bias against the Jewish state.

Britain has condemned the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and warned it to reform its treatment of Israel,  joining the U.S. in a push to end the body’s institutional bias against the Jewish state.

The United States may leave the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) as early as next Monday, June 25, after talks about reforming the organization broke down, according to Reuters.

Australia will not follow U.S. President Donald Trump’s lead and move its embassy to Jerusalem, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has said, defying her own governing Liberal Party’s request to do so.

Israel said Friday that it will not cooperate with an investigation ordered by the UN Human Rights Council into the IDF’s killing of Palestinians in violence on the Gaza border this week.

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Saturday accused the UN Human Rights Council of becoming a “cheerleader for terrorists,” after the UN’s top human rights body ordered an investigation into the deadly violence along the Gaza border fence this week.

The UN Human Rights Council on Friday voted to establish an investigation into Israel’s killing of Palestinians during protests along the Gaza border, in a move Israel rejected as being an attempt to undermine Israel’s right to self-defense.

TEL AVIV – How much fake news can Chelsea Handler include in a single tweet? Lots, apparently. The comedian managed to blast U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well as disseminate a plethora of misleading information — all in under 160 characters. 

Israel’s response to violent attacks across its Gaza border were “wholly disproportionate” and an international investigation must now be convened, the UN human rights chief said Friday.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority has filed official requests this past week to join eight international treaties including the UN’s International Convention against Apartheid in Sports and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, according to a report from Channel 2 news.

TEL AVIV – U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley slammed the UN Human Rights Council on Friday after it approved five new anti-Israel resolutions, saying the council was “foolish and unworthy of its name.” At the same time, Israel blasted the UN agency for being a “sham” run by “bloodthirsty dictatorships.”

UNITED NATIONS — Nine months ago, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley stormed the United Nations’ top human rights body demanding an end to what she said is its bias against Israel and raising the prospect of a U.S. pullout if it didn’t.

In the 37th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva this week, participants were regaled with stories of egregious human rights abuses in Pakistan including systematic persecution of Christians by the Islamic majority.

Saudi Arabia’s arbitrary detention of political and free speech activists without charge should end its membership of the UN Human Rights Council, according to two British lawyers.

U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley slammed a UN report documenting 206 companies with ties to Israeli settlements as evidence of an “anti-Israeli obsession” in the organization.

While President Barack Obama elevated the UN over his own country, Trump has fought for American sovereignty. But there is much more he could do.

WASHINGTON — US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley excoriated a UN official on Friday who urged economic sanctions against Israel and who released a report calling on increased international pressure to end Israel’s “illegal occupation” of the Palestinian territories.

UNITED NATIONS — The U.S. and Israel are trying to prevent the notoriously anti-Israel UN Human Rights Council from publishing a blacklist of companies who do business in Israeli settlements due out later this year.

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The world’s democracies collectively snubbed the UN Human Rights Council’s annual condemnation of Israel in Geneva on Monday, when none of their representatives attended the council’s presentation and debate on “Item 7” — a permanent agenda item focused on the “Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories.”

TEL AVIV – On a visit to Israel, Washington’s ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley slammed the UN for “bullying” Israel and assured Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the U.S. has the Jewish state’s back.

TEL AVIV – The secretary-general of the United Nations was roundly condemned Tuesday by both Jewish American and Israeli leaders for a statement slamming the ongoing “occupation” of Palestinian territories.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a meeting of officials from the Simon Wiesenthal Center that “denial of Israel’s right to exist is anti-Semitism,” the organization said.

All 100 US senators signed a letter to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres Thursday demanding an end to the “unacceptable” anti-Israel bias in the international body.

The State Department says the United States is boycotting a session at the U.N. Human Rights Council that focuses on Palestine and other Arab occupied territories, saying it is biased against Israel.