Posts Tagged: Israel UN
Israel Slashes UN Payments by $2 Million in Wake of Hostile Votes at Human Rights Council
JNS.org - Israel announced Wednesday that it’s slashing its payments to the United Nations by $2 million after a series of anti-Israel votes last week. Israeli Foreign...
The UN’s Long, Shameful History on Israel
The Israeli English-language newspaper The Jerusalem Post was originally called The Palestine Post. It adopted its current name in 1950, two years after the creation of the state...
Obama’s Jewish Enablers
Normally when the UN Security Council passes a resolution, a vote is taken and the result recorded. And that's the end of it. But something unusual...
‘Illegal Settlements’ as Blood Libel: What Comes Next?
Many critics of President Obama's abstention from the recent UN Security Council vote, and Secretary of State John Kerry’s justification for this betrayal, underplayed or missed the...
The Disgrace of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334
President Obama’s groundbreaking abstention on a UN resolution refusing to accept any change to Israel's 1949 armistice lines -- and John Kerry’s one-sided rant against Israel -- have...
Can Israel’s New Proactive UN Posture Lead to Security Council Seat?
JNS.org - Long panned for harboring deep anti-Israel bias, the United Nations (UN) has often been discounted by critical Israeli leaders as an organization with little...
UNESCO and the Denial of Jewish History
For years, Palestinians and other Arabs have tried to deny the historical record and usurp Jewish holy sites. Their latest attempt to do so takes the form...
Ban Ki-Moon Does Not Deserve a Prize
Some things just do not make any sense, whichever way you look at them. Tel Aviv University's award of the George S. Wise Medal, its...
Israel’s Progress on Disability Integration Featured at UN
JNS.org - Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon this week invited a delegation from the Special in Uniform (SIU) initiative to the UN to...
Israel Must Move Beyond Europe
While Israel continues to be vilified around the world, most recently by the UN Human Rights Council (which puts on the same circus every year...
BBC Obscures the Truth About an Anti-Israel UN Resolution
An article that appeared on the BBC News website’s Middle East page on March 25, under the headline “Israel rejects database of settlement-linked firms,” pertains to...
Even the UN Can’t Ignore Israel’s Great Qualities
When Israel was ranked 18th out of 188 countries and territories in the world on the United Nations Human Development Index a few weeks ago,...
Israel Ranks 18th on UN Human Development Index
JNS.org - Israel has secured the No. 18 ranking on this year’s Human Development Index, a United Nations tool measuring world economies based on a number...
Israel to UN: Condemn Palestinian Red Crescent for Neglecting Jewish Victims
JNS.org - Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon has asked U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to publicly condemn the Palestinian Red Crescent organization after...
