Last October, the US administration announced it was quitting UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, citing, among other things, its notorious anti-Israel bias.
Jerusalem welcomed the move, and announced that it would follow suit.
“This is a courageous and ethical decision because UNESCO has become a theater of the absurd and instead of preserving history, distorts it,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the time.
This week, the US administration announced it was withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council, citing, among other things, its notorious anti-Israel bias.
Jerusalem welcomed the move, with Netanyahu once again hailing it as “courageous,” calling the council a “biased, hostile, anti-Israel organization that has betrayed its mission of protecting human rights.”
Since Israel is not a member of the 47-nation UNHRC, it cannot follow suit this time. But Israeli sources maintained Wednesday that it was possible and even likely that Netanyahu would soon announce that Israel was ceasing all contacts with the council.
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