Posts Tagged: United Nations Israel
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...
Israelis Rally on World Children’s Day, Slam UN Silence on Kids Held Hostage in Gaza
The families of the hostages kidnapped from Israel last month and their supporters expressed outrage in various rallies and campaigns on World Children's Day on...
‘Please Bring Back My Baby Girls’: Families of Israelis Taken Hostage by Hamas Speak At United Nations
Family members of the more than 150 hostages taken by Hamas delivered harrowing testimony at the United Nations on Friday, ahead of a Security Council...
Is UNESCO Going to Erase Jewish History From Another Israeli City?
When the United States rejoined the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in July of this year, there was some cautious optimism that...
The UN’s History of the ‘Question of Palestine’ Omits Every Palestinian Attack on Jews
The UN has a webpage where it shows a timeline on the "Question of Palestine." It is extremely biased. It starts with "1885 -- The term 'Zionism'...
The Guardian Parrots UN Official’s False Comments on Palestinian & Rohingya Refugees
In a recent piece on the hardships facing Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, The Guardian uncritically amplified the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human...
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...
It’s All a Question of Context – and the UN Gives None
The United Nations “Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian territory” (OCHA oPt) is one of the 22 different UN organizations...
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...
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...
At the United Nations, Israel Becomes the Outlaw When Palestinians Reject Peace
In a 2011 op-ed in The New York Times, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas wrote about “Palestine’s” intent to use the United Nations “for the internationalization...
What UNRWA’s Leader Didn’t Tell the UN Security Council
Last Thursday, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini gave a statement to the UN Security Council saying -- as the agency has said every year for decades...
