Posts Tagged: UN Israel
UN Experts Demand Accountability for Sexual Torture During Hamas Attacks
UN experts on Monday demanded accountability for sexual violence against Israeli civilians during the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, saying that mounting evidence of rapes and...
The UN’s Disgraceful Response to Hamas Massacre Can’t Go Unchallenged
It should have been the easiest thing in the world to do -- for the United Nations to unequivocally condemn the brutal and unprovoked Hamas...
Israel Has Rights
JNS.org - Recently, I attended a dinner given by a major pro-Israel organization. It was the first since COVID and the turnout was great. There...
Media Ignore Hamas’ Praise for the UN After Gaza Ceasefire Resolution
On December 12, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) demanded an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. Its resolution has been widely covered in the...
I Worked for the UN; It Is Failing Israel and the World Community
As an Israeli human rights advocate and former UN officer, I am deeply troubled by the rapid evolution of latent bias against Israel at the...
After the Gaza War, We Must De-radicalize Palestinian Society
Watching the news these days it has become commonplace to portray Palestinians as double victims -- of both Hamas and Israel. Everyone from President Biden...
Israel, Middle East Minor Notes in Biden’s UN General Assembly Speech
US President Joe Biden on Tuesday barely mentioned Israel and the wider Middle East in his address to the UN General Assembly, which largely focused...
The US Needs to Use Its Influence on UNESCO to Counter Anti-Israel Bias
After a six year absence, the United States has rejoined the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which it dramatically left in 2017...
The UN and WHO Seek to Blame Israel Above All Others
A club that lets everybody in isn’t a club. The UN could not claim to be an international forum for democracy when the US agreed to...
The UN Must Not Repeat Its ‘Nakba Day’ Farce
On May 15, the day following the 75th anniversary of Israel’s establishment, the United Nations chose to endorse the Palestinian rejectionist narrative by convening the...
The UN’s Truly ‘Special’ Special Rapporteur
There are few positions at the United Nations that illustrate the extreme anti-Israel bias of that body better than the "Special Rapporteur on the occupied...
How to Keep Antisemitism Away From Turtle Bay
Another antisemite has turned up in the ranks of senior UN officials -- this time in the body’s human rights arm, no less. Craig Mokhiber...
At the United Nations, Israel is ‘the Jew Among the Nations’
China presented itself as a champion of Muslim rights last Tuesday, when it asked the United Nations Security Council to hold a special session to...
UNRWA Leads to a Path of Violence for Israel, Not Peace
When UNWRA (the United Nations Relief and Work Agency) was formed In December 1949, it was supposed to temporarily tend to the needs of the...
