UNWATCH
UK breaks with EU at U.N., changes stance on Israel, adopts UN Watch statistics
March 28, 2017

In an unprecedented move, Prime Minister Theresa May’s government changed the UK’s vote on Friday at the U.N. Human Rights Council on what it rightly called a “perverse” resolution condemning Israel for allegedly maltreating the Druze residents of the Golan Heights — and London warned that it would oppose all UNHRC resolutions on Israel if the UNHRC’s bias does not stop. In past votes on the same text — introduced annually by Syria’s Assad regime, and more recently by the Islamic group acting as a surrogate — the UK had abstained, together with EU states. This time, however, the UK joined the U.S. in voting No, in what experts say is a move by London to closely align itself with Washington. READ MORE

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