Vijeta Uniyal is a writer based in Germany. He is Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Gatestone Institute and founder of the "Indians For Israel".
President Joe Biden's administration is excepted to join the United Nations Human Rights Council, a body governed by rogue regimes. It is notorious for denouncing the United States and its allies, particularly Israel.
Top Chinese officials are again peddling false stories about the Wuhan coronavirus's origins and spreading rumors about the U.S. vaccines developed during President Donald Trump's presidency.
China has intensified its pandemic misinformation campaign after independent trials found the much-feted Chinese vaccine to be highly ineffective. Clinical trials in Brazil showed that the Chinese Sinovac "vaccine is significantly less effective than previous data suggested - barely over the 50% needed for regulatory approval," the BBC reported earlier this month. The Pfizer vaccine, in comparison, is 95 percent effective.
New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang has vowed to fight the antisemitic boycott movement if he becomes the city's next mayor. In a column penned for the left-leaning Jewish magazine Forward, Yang likened the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement to Nazi boycotts of Jewish businesses.
On Tuesday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel extended the nationwide coronavirus lockdown amid reports of a new variant of the Chinese contagion appearing in Bavaria.
