UN Denies Hamas Using Cement to Build Terror Tunnels (VIDEO)
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Photo: World Economic Forum. From Middle East Monitor: The head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) stressed on Sunday...
View ArticleWhy Does Obama Continue to Support the UN Human Rights Council?
The Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council. Photo: US Mission Geneva/Flickr/File. Reforming United Nations institutions is often a fool’s errand. Yet, the Obama administration chooses to draw no lessons...
View ArticleHas the Time Come for Amexit From the UN?
The United Nations Human Rights Council, in the Palace of Nations (Geneva). Photo: Wikimedia Commons. As British Prime Minister Theresa May plans a Brexit from the EU, Americans may soon ask what kind...
View ArticleWhen Palestinians Kill Palestinians
Hamas fighters. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. A frustrated Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s defense minister, criticized the United Nations in a recent phone call with its Middle East envoy, Nikolay Mladenov,...
View ArticleUNESCO’s Cave of the Patriarchs Measure Is Latest Example of ‘Narrative...
The Cave of the Patriarchs. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. JNS.org – According to legal experts, an upcoming vote by UNESCO on whether to declare Hebron’s Cave of the Patriarchs to be an endangered...
View ArticleWhy I Celebrate UNESCO’s Anti-Israel Votes
UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris. Photo: Matthias Ripp via Wikimedia Commons. “It is shameful that the Jewish people still has to fight for the right to exist in the land that for 33 centuries it has...
View ArticleWho Really Cares About Palestinian Human Rights?
The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. Photo: UN. JNS.org – During the past decade, social media has emerged as a primary tool for activists hoping to drive change on a wide variety of topics. But...
View ArticleAntisemitism at the United Nations Cannot Be Ignored
The United Nations General Assembly hall. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. JNS.org – It was just another day at the office for UN officials. As it has done innumerable times in the last 50 years, on June 12...
View ArticleIsrael’s Nationality Law, UN Resolution 181, and the Arab List
The United Nations General Assembly hall. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Ever since 1988, when after 40 years of rejection, the PLO feigned acceptance of UN General Assembly Resolution 181 on the partition...
View ArticleAfter Funding Cut, UNRWA Employees Are Out in the Cold in Gaza
Palestinians pass by the gate of an UNRWA-run school in Nablus in the West Bank, August 13, 2018. Photo: REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini. Several weeks ago, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for...
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