Such a fine, upstanding organization

An editorial on the current UN Human Rights Council. Where, apparently, the worst perpetrators of human rights abuses get together to swap stories.

For all its faults, the previous U.N. commission occasionally discussed and condemned the regimes most responsible for human rights crimes, such as those in Belarus and Burma. China used to feel compelled to burnish its record before the annual meeting. The new council, in contrast, has so far taken action on only one country, which has dominated the debate at both of its regular meetings and been the sole subject of two extraordinary sessions: Israel.