Posts Tagged: António Guterres
Top Israeli Official Calls for UN Chief to Resign After Saying Hamas Massacre ‘Did Not Happen in a Vacuum’
Israel on Tuesday excoriated UN Secretary-General António Guterres, with one top official calling for the UN leader to resign after he seemingly blamed the Jewish...
Bipartisan Congressional Letter Calls for UN Official’s Firing Over ‘Outrageous’ Antisemitic Remarks
11 Democratic and Republican members of Congress on Monday called for the firing of the UN’s special rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, for her “outrageous”...
‘Pro-Palestinian’ Means No Such Thing
“There are three kinds of lies,” Mark Twain said, attributing the insight to Benjamin Disraeli, “lies, damned lies and statistics.” Turns out there is a...
Ayman Odeh and Coalitions of Hate
JNS.org - On Dec. 9, MK Ayman Odeh met in New York with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. The meeting was arranged by the PLO’s...
Encirclement of Russian Force in Ukraine Overshadows Putin’s Annexation
Hundreds of Russian troops in Ukraine were encircled in one of their main garrisons on Friday, on the verge of one of the worst defeats...
Israel Protests ‘Blatant Double Standards’ Over Firing of UN Official Who Condemned Palestinian Rocket Attacks
Israel's envoy to the United Nations has accused the international body of employing "blatant double standards," after a high-ranking aid official was fired for condemning...
Ukraine Accuses Russia of Using Power Plant as ‘Nuclear Shield’ After Rocket Attack It Says Killed 13
Ukraine on Wednesday accused Russia of exploiting its position in a nuclear power plant it had seized to target a nearby town in a rocket...
Antisemitism: Back to Square One?
JNS.org – Monitoring and analyzing contemporary antisemitism, which I do rather frequently, is most of the time a frustrating experience, but no more so than...
Israel’s UN Ambassador Erdan Asks UN to Stop Funding to NGOs Groups Tied to Palestinian Terror Group
JNS.org - Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan has urged UN Secretary-General António Guterres to not allow the international body’s Office for the...
UN Watchdog Group Demands Secretary-General End Censorship of UNRWA Antisemitism
A prominent watchdog group called on Tuesday for the UN Secretary-General to intervene over what it called the international body’s "ban" on identifying the antisemitism...
World Leaders Return to UN With Focus on Pandemic, Climate
World leaders are returning to the United Nations in New York this week with a focus on boosting efforts to fight both climate change and...
Israeli Ambassador Storms Out of Special UN Session After Palestinian Foreign Minister Says Jewish State Has No Right to Defend Itself
Palestinian Authority foreign minister Riyad al-Maliki went on an anti-Israel rant during a special session of the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, saying that...
Israel Launches Dozens of Strikes as Gaza Fighting Enters Second Week
Israel launched dozens of air strikes in Gaza and the Hamas militant group kept up its rocket attacks on Israeli cities in fighting that spilled...
Israel’s Envoy to the UN Calls on Secretary-General to Condemn ‘Double War Crime’ of Hamas Rocket Attacks
Israel’s Ambassador to the United States and United Nations called on Thursday for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and President of the UN Security Council Zhang...
