The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) expressed outrage at news reports that the United States will seek to join the United Nations Human Rights Council.
RJC Executive Director Matthew Brooks issued the following statement:
We are outraged to learn that President Barack Obama has decided to change the Bush administration’s policy of boycotting the U. N. Human Rights Council. The Human Rights Council is an arena in which undemocratic regimes, such as Saudi Arabia, Cuba, and Angola, have equal standing with truly free countries such as Canada, France, and the United Kingdom.
The Council’s record of upholding human rights is abysmal. The Council has failed to address some of the most serious human rights abuses of our time, including those taking place in Darfur. It is especially blind to human rights abuses by its own member countries.
On the other hand, the Council is a central venue for the most virulent Israel-bashing. Anne Bayefsky has reported that the Council, “has adopted more condemnations of Israel than all the other 191 U.N. states combined, while terminating human rights investigations on the likes of Iran, Cuba and Belarus.
Much of the Council’s agenda is at the behest of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, and the resolutions it submits to the General Assembly are unremittingly anti-Israel and anti-Western. The Bush administration, and other Western governments, have strongly opposed attempts in the Human Council to pass resolutions that would limit the right of free speech in democracies.
President Bush understood that there could be no positive result from American participation in an international body so inherently hostile to Israel and so fundamentally incapable of acting in defense of human rights. That President Obama has chosen to reverse American policy on this question is a blow to the U.S.-Israel relationship and a cause for deep concern among American Jews.
(YWN Desk – NYC)
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And this should be seen as a blow to American credibility in general. I cannot believe that America is doing so little for Darfur, etc. At least they can show some courage and moral stature by boycotting this body.
YES, YES, WE WERE WARNED ABOUT THE COMMUNIST BACKGROUND , NOW ITS SLOWLY CREEPING UP ON US DIRECTED BY MR OBAMA AND CO. ANYONE PLANNING TO EMIGRATE, NO? NOW YOU UNDERSTAND WHY EVERYONE DIDNT ESCAPE 70 YEARS AGO OVER THERE? WHEN YOU SEE ITS NO JOKE THEN ITS TOO LATE
The Messiah is so krum he is doing things because thats what he learned by sitting for 20+ years in the smurch of hatred with Rev Wrong. Also if Pres Bush said it was day, The Messiah would say its night. The problem with that is that so many sheep out there will believe him.
Welcome to Europe circa early 1930s.
Raboisai, this is just a beginning. Daven harder. Barak Nohouse (Husein) Obama will remind us once again that we are to comfortable in Golus.
To: Mark Levin # 3… You are right on target! When we look back at the beginnings of the Holocaust in the ’30s, we ask “Didn’t people see what was happening? Why didn’t they get out?” Dear brothers and sisters, it IS the ’30s AGAIN! Do YOU see it? Will you DO anything while you can? “Aizeh hu chacham? Ha’ro’eh et ha’nolad!”
Where is our (former) friend, secretary of state Hillary Cinton? Now that she does not need the Jewish vote, she is back to her old (kissing Mrs. Arafat) ways!