One of the ways Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pursuing his “Canada is back” agenda is by seeking a temporary, two-year seat on the United Nations Security Council, starting in 2021.

He says Canada, competing against countries like Ireland and Norway, will argue its case by restoring the major role we used to play in UN peacekeeping, and by staking out leadership roles on global issues such as climate change and the equality of women.

While these are motherhood statements without needed costing details, they are not offensive in and of themselves and it is important Canada continues its membership in the UN and participation in such agencies as the World Health Organization.

But pursuing a seat on the Security Council, where the real power is held by the five permanent members — the U.S., U.K., Russia, China and France — means tacitly endorsing that the UN is overrun by member countries which storm past countenancing anti-Semitism, to openly engage in Jew hatred against Israel, the world’s only Jewish state.

Canada, for example, is also bidding for a four-year term on the UN Commission on the Status of Women from 2017 to 2021.

That body concluded its annual meeting last month by condemning only one nation on Earth — Israel — for its mistreatment of Palestinian women.

Nothing about Saudi Arabia’s medieval treatment of women. No mention of honour killings and female circumcisions in countries throughout the Mideast and North Africa.

Simultaneously, the UN Human Rights Council, another nest of Jew-hating vipers, condemned Israel in five separate resolutions, compared to one each for Syria, Iran and North Korea. China and Russia weren’t even mentioned.

But that’s no surprise since, as a study by UN Watch in 2015 revealed, the then nine-year-old UN Human Rights Council had condemned Israel more than all other nations on Earth combined — 61 times, compared to 55 for the rest of the planet.

Canada, under former prime minister Stephen Harper, was rejected for temporary membership on the Security Council in 2010, in part because of his strong support of Israel, a badge of honour, given the circumstances.

I’m not suggesting Trudeau agrees with these Jew-hating stands by major UN bodies.

While Israel received its strongest support from the Harper and Brian Mulroney Conservative governments, compared to the Liberal ones of Jean Chretien and Paul Martin in the modern era, Trudeau has publicly condemned Israeli Apartheid weeks on university campuses and joined with the Conservatives in passing a parliamentary motion condemning the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign.

No doubt Trudeau and the Liberals would argue that having Canada take a more active role in the UN would ameliorate the Jew hatred within it.

My view is the opposite. The UN is not worthy of Canada’s endorsement — beyond retaining our basic membership in the global body — until it rids itself of the millenniums-old plagues of Jew hatred and blood libel against the Jews.