BREAKING: US Plans To Withdraw From The UN Human Rights Council

Big news. The US is expected withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council.

BREAKING: US plans to withdraw from UN Human Rights Council, 2 US officials tell @NBCNews; announcement expected to be made by Sec. Pompeo and Amb. Haley this evening – @Abs_NBC

— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 19, 2018

One big reason? Because we’re sick and tired of everyone treating Israel like the enemy.

The United States plans to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council, two U.S. officials confirmed to NBC News on Tuesday. The announcement is expected to be made by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley at 5 p.m. this evening.

The Trump administration has threatened to withdraw from the 47-member human rights body as recently as March of this year, citing bias against Israel.

“When the Human Rights Council treats Israel worse than North Korea, Iran, and Syria, it is the Council itself that is foolish and unworthy of its name. It is time for the countries who know better to demand changes,” Haley said in a statement at the time, pointing to the council’s adoption of five resolutions condemning Israel. “The United States continues to evaluate our membership in the Human Rights Council. Our patience is not unlimited.”

Want to know what I say? GOOD RIDDANCE. EVERYTHING the UN does is a joke. Wanna know who’s currently serving on the Human Rights Council? Afghanistan. Cuba. Pakistan. Saudi Arabia. Venezuela.

Need I say more?

The expected announcement comes just a day after the U.N.’s top human rights official, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, criticized the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy that has resulted in the separation of nearly 2,000 children from their parents at the border.

“The thought that any State would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable,” he said Monday in an address to the council.

Again. Look at the other member countries. Saudi Arabia just BARELY decided women should be allowed to drive. And they have the nerve to lecture Israel and us? Oh no honey. I don’t think so. That’s not how this works.

Know who else hates the UN Human Rights Council? Dictatorships.

— Emma Kennedy (@EmmaKennedy) June 19, 2018

Really now. Is that why Cuba's participating? https://t.co/UV78lZeJT7

— Hannah Bleau (@hannahbleau_) June 19, 2018

DESPICABLE.

Trump plans to announce today that he is pulling the United States out of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Yesterday the UN called out the United States out for violating the human rights of children at the border. https://t.co/Wb7HjT3sRs

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) June 19, 2018

Afghanistan, Cuba, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela are members. STHU. https://t.co/zKBjIyraGW

— Hannah Bleau (@hannahbleau_) June 19, 2018