For the first time, a UN body will host a 'Nakba Day' event, lamenting the creation of modern-day Israel through a U.N.-backed plan in 1947 that Palestinian Arabs never accepted.
UN official Francesca Albanese, who has a history of endorsing violence against Israelis, now says Israel has no right to defend itself following series of deadly terror attacks.
A draft resolution would have demanded an immediate halt to all Israeli building activities across the Green Line was slated to be put to a vote as early as Monday.
Francesca Albanese also sympathized with terror organizations, dismissed Israel’s security concerns and accused the Jewish state of potential war crimes. By JNS.org The individual tasked by the United Nations Human Rights Council with probing alleged Israeli violations against the Palestinians had previously said that the “Jewish lobby” controls the United States and compared Israelis to... Read more »
The UN's Francesca Albanese's speech was translated in real-time to Arabic and included the affirmation to Palestinians: 'You have a right to resist this occupation.'
Israeli defense minister Benny Gantz condemned U.N. Special Coordinator for the Middle East Tor Wennesland for tweeteing that he was “horrified” that a police officer shot dead a knife-wielding assailant.
NGO Monitor said it was not invited to this week’s Commission of Inquiry hearings, in which Palestinian NGOs designated as terror organizations challenged NGO Monitor’s evidence of their terror ties.
The PA president responded with egregious lies and hostility in response to Prime Minister Lapid's call for peace talks that would culminate in a two-state solution to the conflict.
The Israeli envoy to the UN commented, '[It's] shocking to hear Iranian President Raisi’s remarks calling into question whether the Holocaust happened.'
These outlandish claims are even more disturbing because the person making them was identified as the Permanent Representative of the International Human Rights Council to the UN.
'While the PIJ is launching missiles at Israeli civilians, the UN envoy expresses ‘deep concern’ for the neutralization of a senior terrorist behind an imminent attack on Israelis,' said Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan.
Kothari 'has disgraced the council, and cast a shadow upon the United Nations as a whole,' said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch. 'He must go, and the COI must be disbanded.'