Bravo. Long overdue. At last, an administration that doesn’t respect the polite fiction that the UN is a neutral arbiter. Next step should be withdrawal from the UN altogether, and its expulsion from New York City.
“Trump administration withdrawing from UN Human Rights Council,” by Andrew O’Reilly, Fox News, June 19, 2018:
The Trump administration is expected to announce Tuesday that the U.S. will withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council.
A U.S. official confirmed the decision to Fox News.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley will use a joint statement in Washington at 5p.m. to announce and explain the departure from the 47-member council.
Speaking to Fox News, a senior official said that the UNHRC protects human rights abusers, allows them to serve on the council and shows bias in rendering decisions.
The official claimed that countries like China, Egypt and Russia worked to undermine U.S. reform efforts and that the council has passed more resolutions this year condemning Israel than Iran, Syria and North Korea combined.
Trump has long been critical of the UNHRC, which he has accused of showing a bias against Israel.
Haley last year slammed the body for its “relentless, pathological campaign” against Israel. Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton opposed the creation of the body when he served as the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. under President George W. Bush….
Keys says
Step # 2. Close all UN buildings and offices in the USA.
Vlad says
Close ALL UN offices throughout the Western World.
Gwen Menzies says
I wish this would happen !!
Gwen says
I really wish this could be the case for Australia. Unfortunately our current Politicians do not have the intestinal fortitude to do this. The only one who wanted to do this was Tony Abbott, and he was very quickly “stabbed in the back”.
Chantal says
Yes, close all their offices. The UN is no longer representing western countries for many, many years. They have their own agenda, Agenda 2030, and it is to destroy all our nations, our way of life, and freedom of everything.
Mark Swan says
The U.N. is dominated and controlled by our enemies—
they are directly involved in this Muslim infestation we
are witnessing all over Western Society—they continually
lobby for this, enable this and protect this.
Many of the Western Social problems we are seeing today
are the direct result of those who see our ways as a hindrance
to their perception of how they would want things to be.
So we started and backed this U. N. hoping to bring some
Influence upon the Nations away from war—that is pushed
aside here—other interests and other agendas are predominating
all the influence that consensus could yield.
Taking a new approach to counter what our numerous enemies
expect, will mean disengaging from this particular organization
filled with them, de-legitimizing those who are out to change
Western ways, hurting the World by depriving it of what most
want—freedom to live and let live.
The U.N. is a catalyst for disrupting the free World—all those
who would use it as a conduit to work there agendas, will have
to completely reorganize, find other means that are not so
established and conducive to there efforts, which cause serious
harm to the free World.
Any effort to change it from with-in would be futile—our
influence there is as useless as udder on a Bull. We are vastly
outnumbered by enemies who can not be won-over—these
left to their own devices—will be infinitely less effective
if we quit enabling them through legitimizing them.
Can we find consensus—perhaps more so, when the terrible
weight of supporting the continuous interference that will
only get stronger as the U.N. continues with us in it, is
removed.
I have heard you can catch more flies with honey—
but I have observed flies really prefer poop.
I was never interested in catching flies anyway.
J D S says
Withdraw Part and parcel from the UN…..Close its doors and save the U.S. a lot of money.
Malcolm (South Afric) says
Good,
dsinc says
Yes Malcolm, but the South African government is on board with all the countries that make up the UNHRC and is in bed with the “Palestinians” unjustly condemning Israel, the only civilized democracy in th Middle East. Time will tell. I wish we could say MSAGA, but we can’t. Go President Trump MAGA.
Malcolm (South Afric) says
+1
underbed cat says
Great music. Robert are you dancing? President Trump………celebration…..57 sharia based countries at the U.N against Israel, not cool…once again our president is rectifying truth against the narrative of hate speech and clearing the deceptive fog of slander.
Voytek Gagalka says
Notice the tempo: Step by step withdrawals from that utterly corrupt “United Nations” Moloch which is TOTALLY dominated by the OIC. First there was the withdrawal from the UNESCO (still pending to complete, I guess), now this. By the time Trump presidency is over, hopefully in 2025, the UN will be (SHOULD be) no more!
Jg says
Go for it, Mr President!
DogOnPorch says
UN Human Rights Council = The Fox Guarding The Chickens
Great news.
gravenimage says
Spot on.
Vlad says
🙂 Great comment..
Z says
How about pulling out of the UN all together?
Hal says
Just stop the money going to the UN and watch the changes or the UN be no more!
underbed cat says
It does however concern me that Russia, Egypt and China has been a causative effect of the negativity, in fact that I do not agree….Hatred of Israel comes directly from Islamic Republics of the World from due to the doctrine and sharia since sharia only recognizes the “human rights” of the muslim apparently they are not yet aware despite the terror that was used against their citizens. In my opinion.
gravenimage says
Russia and China, unfortunately, often vote with Dar-al-Islam. And this is an issue because they are part of the permanent council.
carpediadem says
Various Islamic states haven been client states of Russia, like Syria. The setup of the PLO and the Palestinian fiction is due to Russia. No, they are full participants in the hate campaign against Israel.
Koosemo says
Absolutely!!!
These facts should be common knowledge around the globe.
gravenimage says
Very true.
underbed cat says
It does however concern me that Russia, Egypt and China were supporting the negative bias against Israel in fact that I do not agree….Hatred of Israel comes directly from Islamic Republics of the World from due to the doctrine and sharia since sharia only recognizes the “human rights” of the muslim apparently they are not yet aware despite the terror that was used against their citizens. In my opinion.
infidel says
MUSLIMS are MASTERS in infuencing national and global perceptions to their own toxic ends and this they have been doing for a long time.. In India too, they are the CHIEF FORCE behind all anti-national and anti-Hindu viewpoints but they will make it look as if it the Hindus themselves who are doing it…. Just like they make it look that it is non-Muslim nations who are favoring the Islamic POV… SO GLAD THAT TRUMP SNIFFED IT OUT!!!
gravenimage says
Trump withdrawing US from UN Human Rights Council over its “relentless, pathological campaign” against Israel
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*Good*. Long overdue.
More:
The official claimed that countries like China, Egypt and Russia worked to undermine U.S. reform efforts and that the council has passed more resolutions this year condemning Israel than Iran, Syria and North Korea combined.
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This is what they always do. Good for us for *finally* calling them out.
And the UN Human Rights Council has long been a sick joke. Right now, the United Arab Emirates and Venezuela are on the council. Previous years have been even worse, including such extreme human rights violators as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, China, Qatar, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Mauritania. This last nation, just as an example, has the biggest issue with slavery in the world today, with an estimated 17% of the population in slavery. It has taken no steps to prosecute this.
This is not a matter of having a few countries with occasional minor human rights issues, as one might expect; but opening up the council–over the course of many years–to the worst human rights abusers in the world.
That we are no longer gracing this travesty with our presence is a great step. I hope other civilized nations join us.
Rarely says
I can’t remember which US general after WWII said: ” whenever France needs us they’re always there”.
The West is in for a shock when they see what happens without US involvement at UNESCO and the UNHRC.
gravenimage says
Our pulling out of the perverse UNHRC does *not* means we are abandoning France or any other civilized nation.
How does standing up for Israel mean we are abandoning France?
Rarely says
It doesn’t of course. I was simply emphasizing that much of the World relies on the US when needed. Between times when they critically need US help they tend to have amnesia.
gravenimage says
True, Rarely.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Ít will not surprise us because sordid jewish slave state the apartheid evil United States is all out supporting the master the fascist evil Zionist state of Israel to carry out genocide killings of Palestinians with impunity. Any attempt to investigate atrocities being committed by evil Zionists means hostility towards the chosen people of evils .Idiots!!
Malcolm (South Afric) says
Still waiting for the UNHRC to condemn the rape, murder, torture, kidnaping forced conversion of Christians in Islamic countries.
Compounding this, the killing of innocent women, men, and children for the only reason that they are Jewish.
We are also waiting for the banning of the Koran as hate speech by all Western governments.
While they about it, include all mosque where hate speech abounds and lies are spread.
boris says
The only states with slavery now, and for 1400 years, are Mauretania, Lybia, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Qatar, Sjarjah, Abu Dhabi, Bahrein and some othe muslim hell hole states.. All muslim!
gravenimage says
Boris, Ibrahim itace muhammed has many times defended Islamic Muslim slavery, saying that Muslims have the right to enslave Infidels in Jihad and use us for labor and sex slavery.
gravenimage says
Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
Ít will not surprise us because sordid jewish slave state the apartheid evil United States is all out supporting the master the fascist evil Zionist state of Israel to carry out genocide killings of Palestinians with impunity.
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By “genocide killings” Ibrahim itace muhammed means any efforts on Israel’s part to defend against the Jihad against them.
And this is just projection–not only has Ibrahim itace muhammed said many times that he wants to see civilized Israel destroyed, he has also said that he wants to personally take part in the genocide of the Jews.
More:
Any attempt to investigate atrocities being committed by evil Zionists means hostility towards the chosen people of evils .Idiots!!
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What he means is that no one should be able to stand with democratic Israel against Muslim efforts to destroy them. Sorry, Ibby…
Rarely says
Ibrahim.
If you weren’t so full of hate you could join the civilized world. But you have clearly been brainwashed from birth by people as sick as you. Ever think of trying to add to the World instead of destroy, destroy, destroy?
You know full well that there is no genocide against the Palestinian people by Israel. They are victims but of their own leadership and their co-religionists. Any non-muslim 4 year old can see that.
gravenimage says
+1
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Rarely, you mean wickedness by fascist evil Zionist state of Israel inspired by the Satan (Holy Spirit)in yahweh and his wife Ashera hero gods is a sign of civilization? To hell with it
gravenimage says
Of course, the claim that Jews worship ancient goddess figures is absurd.
Ibrahim itace muhammed’s ignorance would not be such a concern, except that he is willing to mass murder because of it.
Tom W Harris says
Islamofascist rubbish.
KJW says
Genocide is wiping out a lot of people. Palestinians keep populating in the sardine can of Gaza because those mothers churn out an average of 5 kids, more little martyrs. They brag that they have more kids than Israelis do which is dumb since they are poor and Israelis like westerners would rather have two kids and give them a better life since kids are expensive.
Genocide has a specific meaning and there is NO genocide of Palestinians. Go read the article on JW about Palestinians in Jordan refugee camps-they can’t become citizens and integrate into society and that’s because of the Arab countries.
Palestinians are pawns due to centuries of hate while Jews were more productive then and now. It appears that Muslims can only gain honor by killing/conquering/subjugating people, and of course fear. That’s pretty self-damning. The Islamic world has had nothing to offer but more problems, but Muslims are too weak to stand up to their other Muslims masters, many of whom the rich violate sharia law on many ways. Heh, but you get Paradise for fighting for them. I hope the sparkling wine up there is a good French vintage.
I’m wondering why you post here when people are barraging you with logic and rationale, and I might add, honesty. Maybe you like the attention of being the oddball Muslim in a sea of kuffar. It’s kind of funny, especially the constant Mithraism schtik.
gravenimage says
He only posts here in the vain hope that he can spread Islam. So far, he’s doing a p*ss poor job…
eduardo odraude says
Man. That phony human rights council for the longest time has been an outrage to anyone who actually gives a damn about human rights. This is another Trumpian knockout punch against lies and for truth and reality.
gravenimage says
+1
Ren says
Good riddance.
Older Canadian says
“Bravo. Long overdue.”
Can’t improve on this statement.
Trump, he amazes me. He is one of the best of the best.
eduardo odraude says
Given how outrageous the situation has been, what’s remarkable is that no one else had done this before Trump. Trump often seems to have a remarkably clear instinct for cutting through the BS and getting to what’s real.
tim gallagher says
I agree with your comments, Older Canadian, Eduardo and Peter35. The situation at UN Human Rights Council has indeed been outrageous with nations which have the worst human rights records you could find in the world having important positions. An insane situation. A complete joke. My feeling has long been they should all bugger off and develop some level of human rights and then maybe come back to the UN, although, then again, I consider the whole UN is so corrupt and useless it shouldn’t continue to exist. Great work by Trump. He won’t put up with the crap, unlike so many other so-called leaders.
Linda says
President Trump is very sensible.
Kepha says
Given that the UN Human RIghts Council is sometimes charied by countries like China, Libya, or Cuba, it is something of a joke and I salute Trump for this decision.
gravenimage says
So true, Kepha.
abad says
It’s about time.
The United States of America should have been out of the UN for well over two decades now.
PRCS says
Carol the 1st says
Three cheers to Mosab Hassan Yousef and the likes of President Trump!
Peter says
Funny, what a dose of cold truth does ………………they look like stunned mullets
Keys says
Wow, that’s quite a list of real atrocities Israel commits against the “Palestinians”.
Cut down trees, genocide, ….. not to mention putting chewed bubblegum under Palestinian chairs, throwing popsickle sticks in their roadways, spitting on their sidewalks, jaywalking, walking dogs, …. pick just one horrible thing Israelis do and feel the hate and send money now ! sarc/
KJW says
It’s always ironic to me that when they talk about Israeli and these things they’ve done, they are basically describing Arab Islam history. These are all the things the Muslims did and still wish to do, and on Judgment Day also. Israel is not engaging in ethnic cleansing; if they were then they are doing a very bad job of it. People saying that or calling it genocide are insulting all those who truly sufferered both. Some of these same folks said nor did nothing during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide where upwards of 500,000 Tutsis were murdered in 100 days. THAT was ethnic cleansing and genocide.
If Islam is so stuck in the ancient past, then it’s more like a mirror and payback. The world feeds into the Arab pathology at the expense of millions of innocent people when they should not feed it. The Europeans are especially treacherous about this because they know what they’re doing is bad.
We should ditch the UN completely. The OIC has too much influence and they are frenemies and Trump doesn’t mention inhuman rights Saudi Arabia who also discriminated against non-Muslims and their police letbelmen burn in a building because they ran out not properly dressed, so they were sent back in. That’s the kind of madness that happens there.
gravenimage says
Yes–this is all projection.
Lisa says
FINALLY!! Now if we can just reverse the FBI training and procedures that removed all mention of Islam and jihad. What the HELL!? Such blatant path smoothing by our treasonous previous so-called president. Alien resident, maybe…
Granddaddy says
Good for Trump. Good for the US. Human rights in the UN has been a sham since the Cairo Declaration 28 years ago. The UN is worse than useless, it’s gone over to the enemy. It’s supposed to be neutral. Trump is just doing what should have been done a long time ago.
infidel says
i DO HOPE THAT DT GOES A STEP FURTHER AND BOOTS THAT PIG OF A UN OUT OF THE USA … THEY COULD GO TO THE NEXT ISLAMIC TERROR NATION OF THEIR CHOICE TO ESTABLISH THEIR OFFICE… LET US SEE HOW ACCOMMODATION THOSE TERROR COUNTRIES ARE.!!
MFritz says
Right on.
carpediadem says
It was mentioned on a local Oz commercial news station that the US was getting out of the UNHRC for something along the lines of double standards – can’t recall the exact term – but not to whom.
Can’t mention Israel in this PC media environment!!
Drew Webb says
Get the US/Israel/Australia out of the UN then get the UN out of the US preferably back to Babylon where it belongs
Maxine says
A Other Great Win for our POTUS, Trump! From all that I have Read on the Comments, It totally Reminds me of the Delusional Democrats, What they blame other’s of Doing, Is always their Wrong Doings. Sounds like the UNHRC should have been Called ANTI HUMAN RIGHTS COUNSEL. But then again, NOTICE THE Initials. HRC! Who else has those initials? Can’t believe how Corrupt and and Evil Government can be. TRUMP is Finally a President to Stand up for the AMERICAN PEOPLE And not STAND FOR THIS FROM ANY Other Country of Fraud, Corruption, BS, Including in the US! Next Move, Pull out of the UN FOR GOOD AND KICK THEM OUT OF THE US.
Baucent says
Another common sense decision. The Human Rights Council is a hypocritical body where countries with appalling human rights records get the chance to jump on Israel. They do little else of note.
Yitz says
I can see noww. The sign on top of the un building: Trump tower.
Carolyne says
Most Western countries still maintain the Eleanor Roosevelt fiction that the UN is a body formed for peace. It might have been once upon a time, but at present it is an anti-American group of mostly Middle Eastern states bent upon destroying the US and all western culture and replacing it with barbarism of Islam. It is time to remove them from the US and let them set up in Saudi Arabia.
gravenimage says
True, Carolyne. When I was a hopeful child, I was terribly proud of the UN being formed in my city of San Francisco, and thought it would bring about world peace.
It was only later that I realized that because there are far more unfree than free nations, that these totalitarian countries dominated the UN agenda, and always would.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Carolyne, your wicked apartheid evil United States and fascist evil Zionist master are being isolated and its economy is declining heading to total collapse. Then you have to seek aid assistance from poorer nations like Liberians.
gravenimage says
Ibrahim itace muhammed has many times claimed that America is an apartheid state–but this is absurd. My own block is multi-ethnic.
He has also claimed that the US dollar is now worth $0, as of about two months ago. Now he is saying that we are heading to total collapse. But then, every few months he has to say that Muslims have destroyed the West’s economies.
As of 2016, the median US annual income was $58,030–that of Liberia $700.
Must I remind him that $700 is less than $58,030?
He has said that he is providing financial advice to some Muslim country in Africa–you see how much trouble they must be in…
gravenimage says
Also, the US GDP is 18.57 trillion–that of Liberia is 2 billion.
Hari Singh says
Many New Yorkers hate the UN. It representatives illegally park everywhere, disobey the law- keep slaves and concubines. No matter what the crime they have diplomatic immunity.
The space used to be a brewery which no doubt was a better contribution.
New Yorkers no doubt would prefer a park.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
The UN was a pleasant and sentimental idea that didn’t pan out. If you think about it then it’s clear that it never would have panned out: would you invite the local neigbourhood petty criminals to your house for dinner to discuss the future of the neigbourhood? It wouldn’t work, would it? That’s the premise that the UN is built on: that criminals can be invited to sit down, reasonably discuss and resolve the world’s problems.
Mark Swan says
Absolutely, excellent analogy Flavius Claudius Iulianus.
gravenimage says
Agree with Mark–spot on, Flavius.
Aussie Infidel says
The UNHRC is dominated by the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation (OIC), who command 57 votes. In Ausrtralia a few years ago, the then Secretary General of the OIC, Prof Ekmeliden Ihsonoglu, when asked about ‘9/11’ said, “That was a great mistake for us, now we will have to confront the West before we are ready.” If that was not a declaration of war, I don’t know what would be. The OIC has been pushing for the elimination of free speech and running a “relentless, pathological campaign against Israel” for decades. And why? Because their religion commands them to.
“The most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers [are] the Jews and those who associate others with Allah (Christians).” (Quran 5:82 SI). In reality, it is the Muslims who have intense animosity toward the Jews and Christians.
“Allah made the Jews leave their homes by terrorizing them so that you killed some and made many captive. And He made you inherit their lands, their homes, and their wealth. He gave you a country you had not traversed before.” (Q 33:26).
“The Jews and Christians are the worst of creatures.” (Q 98:6).
“Allah’s Apostle said, ‘I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah’.” (Bukhari 1:8:387).
“The Last Day [Judgement Day] will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them. And if the Jews hide behind the rocks or trees, they will say, Oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the Gharqad tree would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.” (Sahih Muslim 41:6985, Sahih Bukhari 4:56:791).
Is there any wonder that conflict in the Middle East is never ending. the Muslims don’t want peace, they want the annihilation of Israel from the face of the Earth.
All Western nations should get out of the UN completely. It serves no useful purpose and simply consumes our time, energy and money.
Ole Pederson says
The list of bad human rights record should name Saudi Arabia in the first place.
gravenimage says
They are certainly one of the worst.
Politicianophobia says
I love President Trump and envy the citizens of USA.
TWG says
Finally. And as I recall something about the UN “Women and Children’s” klan, Iran was heading up that nefarious group for a time.
We need to get out of the UN cabal and banish them, and their offices, from the US forever.