By Lucy Komisar
Sept 26, 2025

The corruption of the U.S. government-aligned “human rights” establishment was excruciatingly on display at the Council on Foreign Relations today in this last day of events connected to the opening week of the UN General Assembly.

The speaker was Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, who managed to address the gathered corporates, think tankers and others without denouncing the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

Of course, the moderator did not question him about it because she was Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the UN ambassador of Genocide Joe, who sent money and weapons to help mass murderer Netanyahu kill tens, now several hundred thousands of Palestinians.

They both sought to address the question of whether the United Nations was now irrelevant! Of course it is. And so are they.

Is the Council so bereft of political sensitivity that it put a defender of Israeli genocide on the platform with an ersatz human rights official who did an amazing job of avoiding mentioning any human rights abuses committed by the West?

And when the UN bureaucrat Türk talked about how his agency was opposing human rights violations, he cited statements and press releases. And some other agencies sending aid.

I was not called on but I would have asked how the UN could get around the U.S. Security Council veto and move action on the Gaza genocide to the General Assembly. And not just virtue signaling: “We recognize Palestine whose citizens will all be dead as we take no significant action to stop the murder.”

Thomas-Greenfield of course showed herself a ridiculous irrelevant bureaucrat, most talking about herself. And Türk (an Austrian who spoke in detail about his career) told about many human rights problems (yes Myranmar, Bangladesh) but carefully avoided the one that might bother the Americans. Assume he wants to keep his job.

As a post-script, Ken Roth, former head of Human Rights Watch, embarrassed himself again by accusing China of human rights abuses against the Uyghur minority. No evidence except a 2022 report by Chilean Michelle Bachelet, the then outgoing UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The report was based on 40 anonymous interviews, most done remotely (Remotely? Doesn’t the UN have a travel budget?), open source documents which would include declarations by Sinophobe U.S. officials, and a visit by Bachelet. About alleged events over a decade earlier. Where alleged terrorists (confirmed by West Point Combatting Terrorism Center), were sent to “reeducation camps,” NOT tortured as the Americans did to Islamists in Abu Graib. And no evidence any are still held. Or where are the refugee camps, the refugees fleeing to Europe, the U.S.? The report was propaganda.

For more about the Uyghurs, go here: “All Static and Noise” anti-China propaganda film about Uyghurs