Posts Tagged: United Nations General Assembly
General Mills Among 15 Companies to Stop Doing Business in Israeli Settlements: UN Report
The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights has removed General Mills and 14 other business entities from a blacklist of companies identified as...
Netanyahu Says Israel Not Bound by ‘Despicable’ UN Vote
Israel condemned and the Palestinians welcomed on Saturday a United Nations General Assembly vote asking the International Court of Justice to provide an opinion on...
Palestinians Welcome UN Vote on Israel’s ‘Occupation’ as ‘a Victory’
The Palestinians on Saturday welcomed a vote by the United Nations General Assembly requesting that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) provide an opinion on...
UN Schedules Controversial Vote on ‘Occupied’ Territories on Shabbat; Israeli Ambassador Condemns the Move
Israeli ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Gilad Erdan slammed the UN General Assembly for scheduling a controversial vote on a resolution that would ask...
UK PM Vows Support for Israel in Upcoming United Nations Vote on Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Sunday that his country will oppose a United Nations (UN) General Assembly resolution aimed at securing an advisory...
United Nations Set to Vote on Israeli Resolution Against Online Holocaust Denial
The United Nations General Assembly is expected to vote this Thursday on an Israeli resolution that seeks to define and counteract Holocaust denial on social...
Israeli PM Says Iran has Crossed Nuclear ‘Red Lines’; Tehran Calls it ‘Full of Lies’
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Monday that Iran had crossed "all red lines" in its nuclear program and vowed that Israel would not...
Bennett Travels to New York for His First Address to the UN General Assembly
i24 News - Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett flew to the United States on Saturday evening, ahead of his first address to the United Nations...
Israel Blasts ‘Butcher of Tehran’ Raisi After UN Speech
i24 News – Israel’s Foreign Ministry lambasted Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi as the “butcher of Tehran” after his speech at the United Nations General Assembly...
Canadian Jews Urge PM Trudeau to Resume Past Policy of Opposing Raft of Anti-Israel UN Resolutions
Top Jewish organizations in Canada have written to the country’s prime minister and foreign minister asking them to resume a two-decade long tradition of voting...
More Than 11,000 People Urge Canada to Reverse UN Vote Calling Western Wall ‘Occupied Palestinian Territory’
More than 11,000 people have signed a petition urging the Canadian government to reverse its vote in favor of an annual United Nations resolution that...
UN Allows Palestinians to Act More Like Full Member in 2019
The 193-member United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday allowed the Palestinians to act more like a full UN member state during meetings in 2019 when they...
America Had No Achievements at UN General Assembly: Iran President
The United States was not able to register any achievements at the United Nations General Assembly meeting which took place this week, Iranian President Hassan...
CAIR Chief Meets with Turkish and Iranian Presidents
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani invited Nihad Awad, the Council on American-Islamic Relations' (CAIR) executive director, to meet with them in New...