Every US ally is under attack — from the very institutions American taxpayers fund

American taxpayers fund the United Nations. American diplomats built it. This week, the Geneva-based group UN Watch released the most thorough accounting yet of who actually pays the salaries and shapes the verdicts of the U.N.’s human rights enforcers. The short answer: not the United States.The 104-page dossier, “From Watchdogs to Ideologues,” surveys 13 of the UN’s 59 Special Rapporteurs — the formally autonomous specialists whose findings carry near-judicial weight at the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, Western foreign ministries, and across the global press. It documents not occasional ideological tilt but the wholesale capture of a Western-built institution by the regimes it was meant to constrain.Three cases illustrate the machinery. Take Alena Douhan, whose U.N. brief — “unilateral coercive measures” — means U.S. and allied sanctions: she has banked $1.3 million from Beijing, Moscow, and Doha, taken every U.N. trip to a dictatorship, and reliably blamed Western sanctions rather than the regimes for whatever shortages her hosts displayed.

THE ‘PRO-PALESTINIAN’ LEFT ISN’T REALLY ABOUT GAZA. ITS REAL TARGET IS AMERICA

Irene Khan, the UN’s free-press monitor, is on the books of Wellspring Philanthropic Fund — a U.S. left-aligned donor outfit long criticized for opaque grant-making — for $775,000; her office has gone silent on Venezuela’s incarcerated journalists, Iran’s and Turkey’s internet blackouts, and Myanmar’s military censorship, while her flagship General Assembly submission zeroed in on the alleged suppression of pro-Palestinian activism on American and European campuses. And Ben Saul, the UN’s counterterrorism rapporteur, has cashed $150,000 from China; his record contains nothing on the camps holding more than a million Uyghur Muslims — though he has found time to call the United States, on the record, a “dystopia.”