JERUSALEM POST
Israeli NGO, families of terror victims urge US to pull out of UNHRC
June 15, 2022

An Israeli legal NGO has urged the US to withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) following the publication of a Commission of Inquiry (COI) that criticized Israel. The NGO, Shurat HaDin, representing American families of the victims of terrorism, sent a letter to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling on the US to “push back” against the body’s anti-Israel bias. Combating the body’s anti-Israel bias was one of the justifications used by the Biden administration when it rejoined the UNHRC, arguing that it could do so better from inside the organization rather than outside it. READ MORE