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Thursday, February 6, 2025
Sa’ar tells UN Human Rights Council Israel is leaving, citing antisemitic rhetoric, emboldening of terror
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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.
I informed the UNHRC that Israel will no longer participate in it. The "human rights" council has consistently enabled countries that abuse human rights to evade scrutiny, while obsessively pursuing Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East. Joining @POTUS President Trump's… pic.twitter.com/wMYHte2dv0
— Gideon Sa'ar | גדעון סער (@gidonsaar) February 6, 2025
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