There had been hints, but now it’s official: The U.S. will seek election to the UN Human Rights Council. This is the body that just passed a resolution internationalizing Islamic blasphemy laws in order to give Muslim nations cover when their governments . . . violate human rights. The Obama administration has already indicated its comfort with this kind of sanctified hypocrisy. The president speaks eloquently of our need to reclaim our finest principles while he sends Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to China with the message that Chinese human rights aren’t a priority.

The whole present-day human rights endeavor is a mash-up of Orwell, Kafka, and Sayyid Qutb. Definitions are inverted, innocent individuals are targeted to run an incoherent legal gauntlet, and the most extreme brand of Islam is universally sacred. Moreover, this preposterous undertaking has met with enormous success. The term Human Rights now means, to all but a few academics and politicos from a bygone age, the rights of certain Muslims to act inhumanely without molestation. The term Human Rights violation now means Israeli action. While member countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia chair the Council in rotation, only Israel has come under fire for, say, violation of women’s rights. This body will soon boast of the imprimatur of the United States government.