President Trump will sign an executive order withdrawing the United States from the UN Human Rights Council and cut funding to UNRWA. – the agency that provides aid to Gaza.
The current president of the so-called ‘Human Rights Council’ is Ambassador Jürg Lauber of Switzerland.
Trump will also prohibit “future funding for the U.N. relief agency for Gaza,” Politico reported.
“The UNHRC has demonstrated consistent bias against Israel, focusing on it unfairly and disproportionately in council proceedings,” the document said, according to Politico. “In 2018, the year President Trump withdrew from the UNHRC in his first administration, the organization passed more resolutions condemning Israel than Syria, Iran, and North Korea combined.”
Politico reported:
President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order on Tuesday withdrawing the U.S. from the U.N. Human Rights Council and prohibiting future funding for the U.N. relief agency for Gaza, according to a document obtained by POLITICO.
The actions, which reinstate policies in place during the last Trump administration, will come on the day the president is set to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington. The U.S. has long accused the council of bias against Israel and of giving cover to governments with human rights abuses. It comes after the Biden administration paused funding to United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, known as UNRWA, following reports that staffers were involved in the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel.
A White House official said Monday afternoon that the executive order signing had been moved to Tuesday.
Last year the watchdog group U.N. Watch accused the Human Rights Council’s special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, of “gross violations of U.N. rules and professional ethics.”
Albanese is in charge of investigating “Israel’s violations of the bases and principles of international law”
According to the legal complaint filed to U.N. Secretary General António Guterres and High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türkwith, Albanese allegedly accepted honorariums and payments from activist and advocacy groups in violation of the U.N. code of conduct.
Additionally, China previously used the UN Human Rights Council to attack the US, UK, and Australia.
The post President Trump to Withdraw US From UN Human Rights Council appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.