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Sa’ar tells UN Human Rights Council Israel is leaving, citing antisemitic rhetoric, emboldening of terror

By Reuters and ToI Staff 6 February 2025, 2:35 pm 23 Edit
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar attends a hearing of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, January 21, 2025. Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar attends a hearing of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, January 21, 2025. Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel has informed the United Nations Human Rights Council that it will follow the United States in withdrawing its participation, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar says.

“The decision was reached in light of the ongoing and unrelenting institutional bias against Israel in the Human Rights Council, which has been persistent since its inception in 2006,” he says in a letter to UNHRC President Jorg Lauber that he posts on the social media platform X.

Sa’ar accuses the council of protecting serial rights abusers while disproportionately and systematically singling out Israel for condemnation and scrutiny, adding that the body advances antisemitic rhetoric, denies Israel’s right to exist, and emboldens terrorism.

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