Pompeo rips UN ‘so-called Human Rights Council’ as ‘anti-Semitic’

Published March 3, 2020 9:45pm ET



The Trump administration, already warning that it wants to slash its payments to the United Nations, this week fired a direct shot at the group’s anti-Israel and “anti-Semitic” trend led by an agency that has put U.S. firms that do business with the Jewish state on a hit list.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is leading the effort and announced a new policy to defend those firms against the “U.N.’s so-called ‘Human Rights Council’ and the high commissioner, Michelle Bachelet.”

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