(WFB) "The White House and Congress are considering slashing U.S. funding to the United Nations in light of its most recent effort to declare the Jewish state's fighting forces a chief violator of children's rights, according to multiple conversations with U.S. officials.
The U.N. is working to add the Israeli Defense Forces, or IDF, to a list of entities such as terror groups that are responsible for inhumane acts against children.
The move would be just the latest anti-Israel salvo by the U.N., which caused controversy late last year when, with the backing of the Obama administration, it moved to condemn Israel for building homes for Jewish people in Jerusalem.
The latest action against Israel would add the IDF to the Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflicts, which would designate the Jewish state's fighting forces as one of the worst offenders of children's human rights in the world. Other groups and entities on the list include terrorist entities and forces that kill children en masse.
The move has prompted outrage in the White House and on Capitol Hill, where multiple U.S. officials told the Washington Free Beacon that they will no longer stand by as the U.N. singles out Israel for criticism. The effort to counter what they described as the U.N.'s anti-Israel bias is likely to include cutting a large portion of U.S. funding to the organization.
One senior White House official familiar with the Trump administration's thinking on the matter told the Free Beacon that the president and his senior-most advisers are sick of seeing Israel treated as a pariah by the U.N."