The Biden administration continues to chip away at former President Trump’s achievements and decisions as the United States is set to rejoin the controversial U.N. Human Rights Council. The U.S. charge d’affaires in Geneva, Mark Cassayre said the United States will first rejoin as an observer and later be elected as a full member.

Fox News reports:

The decision is likely to draw criticism from conservative lawmakers and many in the pro-Israel community, who have derided the council and echoed Trump administration complaints that it was too quick to overlook abuses by autocratic regimes and governments — and even accept them as members.

Hillel Neuer, the executive director of advocacy group UN Watch, which often decries the council’s excessive focus on Israel, said the Obama administration had had a “tendency to become a cheerleader for the council” — and called on the Biden team to avoid it, and instead call out the council’s “abuses.”

“The cost of the U.S. decision to rejoin is that it gives legitimacy to a council where tyrannies and other non-democracies now comprise 60% of the membership,” Neuer said.

“In exchange, the U.S. must demand serious reform, removing despots from the council such as Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro regime, holding dictators to account, and removing the agenda item that targets Israel in each session, the only one to focus on a single country,” he added.

President Trump withdrew our country from the organization in 2018 over criticism that the board is made up of countries like Cuba, Russia, and China which have all been accused of human rights abuses. Trump also cited that the organization seems to be hyper-focused on Israel while allowing other countries to skate by and refused to adopt a series of reforms proposed by then-members Nikki Haley.

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