"Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley were right to withdraw U.S. membership from the U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday.

"While that council purports to defend human rights, it actually focuses on far less noble objectives. Namely, attacking Israel, challenging Western liberal values of free speech, and lending moral credibility to the world's most unpleasant regimes. Ignoring repeated U.S. challenges to address those failings, the council deserves neither U.S. diplomatic credibility nor U.S. taxpayer dollars. ...

"The U.N.'s own statistics show that the U.S. was the largest voluntary contributor to the organization's 2017 human rights efforts. The Human Rights Council will surely miss that money. But if they want it back, they need only to start living up to their name."