Israel withdraws from UN Human Rights Council, joining US

A day after US President Donald Trump stopped American engagement with the United Nations Human Rights Council, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced Wednesday that Israel is following suit, reported from The Times of Israel.

"Israel joins the United States and will not participate in the UNHRC,” Sa’ar wrote on X.

Neither the US nor Israel are currently members of the UNHRC but, like all United Nations member states, they have informal observer status and a seat in the council meeting chamber.

The minister said that the "discrimination against us is clear” and asserted Israel is the only country "with an agenda item dedicated solely to it.”

He further said that the UNHRC has passed over 100 "condemnatory resolutions” against Israel, a figure amounting to over 20 percent of all the motions ever passed and more than the total combined resolutions against Iran, Cuba, North Korea and Venezuela.

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