"The United States on Wednesday slammed the United Nations Human Rights Council for its biased treatment of Israel and for providing a platform to human rights abusers such as Iran.
'It is unacceptable that the HRC treats Israel differently from every other UN member,' US Ambassador Mary Catherine Phee said.
'The institutional integrity of the Council demands that the efforts to delegitimize and isolate Israel through such blatant bias must end,' Phee told the council as it met this week in Geneva for the start of its 37th session that ends on March 23rd.
Phee took issue with the UNHRC mandates that Israeli human rights abuses against Palestinians in the West Bank must be debated at each session under Agenda 7 and that there must be a permanent investigator assigned to investigate such abuses.
No other country has such a permanent mandate. All global human rights abuses are debated under Agenda Item 4, including those in Syria and Iran. None of the countries who are considered to be serial human rights abusers have a permanent investigator assigned to them...
When US President Donald Trump took office last year, his administration had threatened to leave the council unless it reformed itself on a number of critical issues including anti-Israeli bias.
The US, which is one of the council's 47 members, has yet to make good on that threat..."