Scoop: GOP chairs blast UN focus on Israel investigations

• Another UN commission accused Israel of "genocidal acts" earlier this month.
• House Foreign Affairs Chair Brian Mast (R-Fl.) and Senate Foreign Relations Chair James Risch (R-Idaho) are warning that any nation or UN entity that supports the international investigative mechanism "will face the same consequences as the ICC," citing last month's sanctions.

Zoom in: "This one-sided focus on Israel undermines the legitimate and genuine threat posed by real human rights abusers. This includes the Hamas terrorists," the lawmakers write in the letter, first obtained by Axios.

• "It's part of a concerning and insidious anti-Israel trend within the United Nations, specifically as relates to the HRC, and appears to be little more than a bare-faced attempt to prop up other anti-Israel action at the International Criminal Court (ICC) and International Court of Justice (ICJ)," they continue.

Zoom out: Congressional efforts to sanction the International Criminal Court collapsed early this year, with Senate Democrats blocking the bill's passage.

• The bill came in response to the court's issuing of arrest warrants for top Israeli officials last year.