All 100 U.S. senators signed a letter asking U.N. Secretary General António Guterres to address and correct the unequal treatment by the United Nations against Israel. 

Authored by Senators Marco Rubio and Christopher A. Coons, the senators state they are “united in their desire to see the United Nations improve its treatment of Israel and to eliminate anti-Semitism in all its forms. We are deeply committed to international leadership and to advancing respect for human rights. But continued targeting of Israel by the U.N. Human Rights Council and other U.N. entities is unacceptable.”

The senators asked Guterres to make such institutional changes such as the removal of a standing agenda item in the U.N. Human Rights Commission sessions that has been used as a forum to denounce Israel. The senators also want a change to the rules for membership on the human rights panel to broaden participation beyond what U.S. officials have said is often a narrow and self-interested group of countries.

This bipartisan demand letter comes in time for the vote on the anti-Israel UNESCO resolution on Tuesday, which also coincides with Israel's Independence Day. This clearly anti-Semitic motion — drafted by Arab states on behalf of the Palestinians — targets the Jewish state's sovereignty over its capital city and denies any Jewish connection to key holy sites in Bethlehem and Hebron. Part of the proposed UN resolution reads: "Any action taken by Israel, the Occupying Power, to impose its laws, jurisdiction, and administration on the City of Jerusalem are illegal and therefore null and void and have no validity whatsoever."

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