U.S. AMBASSADOR: NEW U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL STACKED V. ISRAEL

Bolton: U.N. council likely anti-Israel (JTA)
The newly formed U.N. Human Rights Council is likely to be stacked against Israel, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said. “I’ve always felt it would be a race to see if the first resolution of this new council would be anti-U.S. or anti-Israeli,” John Bolton told a B’nai B’rith group gathered in New York to meet with several nations’ delegations to the world body.

The U.N. General Assembly voted in March to create the new council, which will convene for the first time June 19, to replace the old Human Rights Commission. The old commission included some of the world’s worst rights offenders and was considered highly biased against Israel. The United States and Israel were in favor of replacing the old rights body, but voted against the new council because they felt the resolution did not go far enough.