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| https://www.portman.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=4794FC47-DA95-4A46-96CD-A4B50D39DC6A | On CNN, Portman Praises Ambassador Nikki Haley After U.N. Vote on Jerusalem | 2017-12-21 | 2017 | 2017-12 | Republican | House | OH | Rob Portman | P000449 | www.portman.senate.gov | legacy | During an interview on CNN today, Senator Portman, who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, discussed todays vote at the United Nations (U.N.) condemning the United States decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and praised Ambassador Nikki Haley standing up for the United States and our allies. Portman believes that Jerusalem has always been the capital of Israel and has long supported moving the U.S. embassy there, including voting for the bipartisan Jerusalem Embassy Act in 1995. Excerpts can be found below and a video can be found here. PORTMAN PRAISES AMBASSADOR NIKKI HALEY The people I represent who are paying those dues to the U.N. And again about one-third of the peace keeping is paid for by our taxpayers, they deserve to have representation in the U.N., which is Nikki Haley, that stands up for us. I think its totally appropriate. I do think it should be an aggregation of all positions, in other words, not just this one position, youve got to look at our alliances around the world to determine whos helping us and whos not. That should be one of the factors thats considered. PORTMAN ON THE U.N. VOTE REGARDING JERUSALEM I think it reflects a continued effort by the United Nations and frankly a double standard with regard to Israel. I am concerned about it, but its not surprising. The whole issue of boycotts, divestments, sanctions, BDS is something that Senator Ben Cardin and I have been involved in for some time on, trying to get the United Nations, including the Human Rights commission and other groups, to understand that Israel is being held to a different standard than other countries. You mentioned some of the countries that violate human rights. You missed Iran and North Korea by the way. You know, its ironic that here we are talking about the move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as being the seminal issue in the Middle East peace when there are so many other issues that need to be addressed. As you mentioned in Syria, as you mentioned there are human rights violations going on in other countries in the Middle East as well that are far more important for the U.N. to be taking a look at. | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |