"American Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has reportedly threatened that the US will cut funding to the UN Human Rights Council if it releases a 'blacklist' of international companies operating in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Golan Heights.
'If you publish the list against settlements we will harm your funding,' a report Wednesday by Channel 2 news quoted Haley as saying recently.
The report also said Haley, who has strongly criticized the blacklist and the UN Human Rights Council over its 'anti-Israel bias,' warned the US may pull out of the council if the list of companies is published.
The prospect of the publication of the list has caused concern among Israeli officials, who worry it could strengthen efforts to boycott the Jewish state and harm Israeli firms.
'The significance of the publication would be that the UN turns itself into a BDS group,' an unnamed official at the Ministry of Strategic Affairs told Channel 2, referring to the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions movement..."