"With Nikki Haley soon to depart from her post as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, it behooves us to review the Trump administration's remarkable policy changes vis-à-vis the UN as well as suggest further steps it should take.
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[T]he Trump administration has acted correctly and wisely by ceasing to dignify organizations hostile to the U.S. and its allies with U.S. membership and participation. But the work is not done. The U.S. must now close down the complex apparatus of UN bodies that have worked ceaselessly since the late 1960s to demonize Israel, ostracize it, and ultimately diplomatically eliminate it.
In November 1975, the UN General Assembly voted infamously to condemn Zionism as a form of racism. In 1992, in the wake of the Cold War's conclusion, this pernicious resolution was overturned, but it continues nevertheless to inject poison into the arteries of the international system.
The myriad of bodies and initiatives this resolution inspired remain operating in full force. Thus, the UN continues to fund and facilitate the activities of bodies like the Committee for the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP); the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People; and the United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine (UNISPAL).
These bodies produce streams of reports, convene innumerable conferences, and distribute copious quantities of material all aimed at popularizing the Palestinian Arab effort to delegitimize Israel. In addition to creating ceaseless activity in pursuit of this objective, they also provide endless employment for professional anti-Israel activists. In essence, the world – and America more than most via it huge UN contribution – finances an entire anti-Israel bureaucratic machine.
Only the indulgence of the U.S., and far too many Western governments, has enabled the UN to continue down this destructive path for so long. Even today, they still often defer to it as though it actually represents the ideals of its founders which, of course, were abandoned or corrupted decades ago.
This state of affairs should have ended long ago. The halo of the UN and its symbolic significance have impeded a sustained effort at reform and made governments reluctant to disassociate themselves from the world body. The U.S. has the power of the purse and could bring enormous pressure to bear on the UN to cease these activities..."