MICHELE KELEMEN, BYLINE: Ambassador Haley told the 47 members of the United Nations body in Geneva she's watching them carefully.
As she received a hero's welcome, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Wednesday that Israel faces bullying at the United Nations - and that she has no patience for it.
Haley pointed to the "egregious human rights violations in Venezuela" and said if "the country can not reform, it should step down from the rights council".
Laying out her tack for her address in an opinion piece in The Washington Post on Friday, Ms Haley said the council must "end its practice of wrongly singling out Israel for criticism".
That same month, Ms Haley told the Council on Foreign Relations: "I mean, the Human Rights Council is so corrupt". "The Obama administration had a different approach - joining and sending Ambassador Eileen Donahoe to try to reform it from within".
"The United States will continue to speak up loudly in support of civil society participation".
She described Israel as having a "strong human rights record", phrasing that drew scattered laughter from the crowd at the institute.
John Fisher, Geneva director of the USA -based Human Rights Watch, told Reuters he doesn't fear a us withdrawal from the council.
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Haley's address comes days after she penned a withering op-ed in the Washington Post in which she blasted the body as a "haven for dictators".
The George W. Bush administration also cited Israel bashing and the presence of human rights abusers when it pulled out of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, the predecessor of the current council.
She is expected to visit the Western Wall, just as US President Donald Trump did during his May trip. "We see some areas for significant strengthening".
Eight groups, according to Reuters, wrote to Haley in May, saying that withdrawal would actually hurt Israel more than it would help, according to Reuters.
"It is anomalous that the council's sole regular agenda item devoted to a single location is its "Item 7", concerning Israel's conduct in the occupied Palestinian territories".
Haley will reportedly decide later this month whether the U.S. will remain in the council reported Reuters, sparking alarm among Western activists who warned that a withdrawal could be counterproductive and lead to further unfair targeting of Israel "to an even greater degree".
The former governor of SC, have spoken out forcefully against attempts by UN's bodies, mainly the Human Rights Council, to hold Israel accountable for human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza and to force the Jewish state to stop its 50-year-long control of these territories.
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