UN "Human Rights" Council session produces more reports bashing Israel than Syria, Iran, and North Korea combined

The UN Human Rights Council, currently in the midst of a four-week session in Geneva, will have more reports on Israel than on Iran, North Korea and Syria combined. There are five reports on Israel, two on Iran and one each on North Korea and Syria. The Council calls for the production of these reports in prior sessions, and then the UN secretariat in Geneva and New York goes to work producing them as part of their daily routine all year round. The reports then lead to new resolutions by the Council condemning Israel, and these resolutions in turn call for another set of reports. The General Assembly appropriates the funds for the Council's cycle of anti-Israel reporting, condemning and resolution-passing - leaving the U.S. taxpayer footing 22% of the bill.

Here are the reports to be considered at the current Council session on Israel and three of the world's worst human rights abusers:

Israel:

• Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: Implementation of Human Rights Council resolutions S-9/1 and S-12/1, A/HRC/34/36
• Report of the Secretary-General: Human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan, A/HRC/34/37
• Report of the Secretary-General: Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, A/HRC/34/38 (forthcoming)
• Report of the Secretary-General: Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan, A/HRC/34/39 (forthcoming)
• Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, A/HRC/34/70 (forthcoming)

Note: A sixth report was delayed until December.

Iran:

• Report of the Secretary-General: Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, A/HRC/34/40
• Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, A/HRC/34/65

Syria:

• Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, A/HRC/34/64

North Korea:

• Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, A/HRC/34/66