AMERICA AND DOUBLE SPEAK

Bayefesky notes that even though at the conclusion of this session, the UN Human Rights Council maintained its record of having adopted more resolutions and decisions condemning Israel than all other 191 U.N. states combined, the Obama administration still described it as an “historic” session advancing human rights.

“This administration’s message is that demonizing Israelis is a price worth paying for the sake of other people’s human rights,” concludes Bayfesky. “’Several developments’ for anybody else trump several losses for the Jewish state. Legitimizing the Human Rights Council with American membership and financial support is justified regardless of the threat that it poses to the safety and security of the Jewish people [and by extension to the U.S.A., also]. The American administration ought to know better. Equality and human dignity cannot be built on the inequality of the few.”