A Refreshing Change at the U.N.

"Trump administration deliberations about whether the United States should quit the United Nations' Human Rights Council over its anti-Israel obsession reflect a welcome new U.S. approach to Turtle Bay...

The United Nations established the council in 2006 to replace its Human Rights Commission, which lost its legitimacy after descending into a cesspool of hypocrisy on human rights by focusing enormous attention on Israel and ignoring the world's truly horrific human rights abusers, some of whom were commission members.

The council, however, is no better. President George W. Bush refused to join it because its 47 members included some of the world's worst human rights abusers, but President Barack Obama successfully sought U.S. membership in 2009 in hopes of reforming it from the inside. Members include 11 nations that Freedom House, an NGO that conducts research on political freedom, has classified as 'not free' and another 15 that are 'partly free,' leaving only 21 'free' nations...

Either way, Washington's candor about the deep rot of anti-Israel bias at Turtle Bay marks a sharp change from decades of go-along, get-along U.S. attitudes toward the global body. More especially, it marks a sharp change from eight years of an Obama administration that grew increasingly hostile to Israel, culminating in an outrageous Security Council resolution that Washington let pass late last year..."