A judgment that erodes trust in the US

(JNS) — A malodorous wind has been blowing through our institutions of international jurisdiction. Take, for example, the United Nations. Although erected after World War II upon the loftiest of foundations, an unscrupulous crew of autocracies, tyrannies and unaligned third-world nations—who have long resented the leading role that the United States has taken on the world’s stage—united into a force to be reckoned with, eroding that institution’s eminence.

Among these nations is the 56-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the largest working group within the United Nations. The non-memb...