[Magdalen] the Secretary of Homeland Security walks into a Mexican restaurant

[Grace Cangialosi]

I don’t care what the “cited” reason is—I don’t think it’s coincidence that it came right after the council criticized trump’s policy of separating families.

And, if we care about human rights, why not stay in the group advocating for them and work for necessary change.

Did you know we are one of only two countries that refused to ratify the document on the Rights of Children? (I forget the formal name.) TWO countries! And I think the other is Nicaragua.


> On Jun 20, 2018, at 10:09 AM, Roger Stokes via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 20/06/2018 12:45, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
>> What are any of these people thinking? Where has the government found so many people who will actually take children from their parents? I don’t know how any of them can sleep at night.
>> 
>> And now we’ve left the UN Committee on Human Rights, because they criticized this policy...
> 
> The cited reason for withdrawal is the repeated criticism by the UNHRC's repeated condemnation of Israeli treatment of Palestinians. Such criticism is not anti-semitic since it is condemnation of the Israeli government rather than of Jews as such. The condemnation is also not bias against Israel but a reaction to their behaviour in a situation in which the sides are not on an equal footing.
> 
> Roger