Albanese report slammed as ‘gross perversion of history,’ ‘weaponizing Holocaust comparisons’

Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur for Palestinian rights, presented a new report to the United Nations General Assembly which purports to provide “clearly identifiable” proof that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians. Read more

Abbas calls Temple Mount ‘exclusive property of Muslims’ in speech to UN General Assembly

In an address to the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday morning, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas called the holiest Jewish site—the Temple Mount in Jerusalem—the “exclusive property of Muslims” and referred to Israel as a “terrorist state” that does not deserve membership in the United Nations. Read more

In General Assembly speech, UN head takes shots at Israel

António Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general, opened the U.N. General Assembly’s high-level debate week by repeatedly criticizing the Jewish state. Read more

UN adviser says Israel accused of ‘domicide, urbicide, scholasticide, medicide, ecocide’ in Gaza

Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur for Palestinian rights who has a long history of antisemitic statements, said during a press conference on Monday that the Jewish state is accused of six kinds of offences in Gaza. Read more

Evidence against UNRWA staffers stronger than UN investigators let on

Several media outlets and critics of Israel noted that Monday’s release of results of an internal United Nations investigation stated that nine UNRWA staffers “may” have participated in Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre. Read more

Pro-Israel protesters interrupt UN Security Council meeting, call for freeing hostages

As the United Nations Security Council met about the Israeli-Palestinian file on Wednesday, two women interrupted the proceedings calling for the hostages to be freed from Gaza. Read more

UNRWA head claims key allegation of Hamas collaboration lawsuit is false

The head of UNRWA, the United Nations’ embattled Palestinian-only aid and social services agency, told JNS it disputes a key section of a civil lawsuit filed against the agency by victims of Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre. Read more

UN investigative unit probing allegations against anti-Israel official

The investigative unit of the United Nations opened a case probing whether pro-Hamas lobbying groups funded Francesca Albanese’s trips in 2023 to Australia and New Zealand. Read more

US envoy to the UN blasts Israel in Security Council speech

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield on Tuesday called out the expansion of Jewish neighbourhoods in Judea and Samaria as “an obstacle to the achievement of a two-state solution—the end state we all want to see.” Read more

UNSC adopts US-backed Gaza ceasefire resolution

The United Nations Security Council on Monday adopted a U.S.-drafted resolution aimed at reaching a three-phase ceasefire deal to end the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip. Read more

After faulting ‘fog of war’ for cloudy Hamas casualty numbers, UN’s new stats still don’t appear to add up

A day after a U.N. spokesman attributed a nearly 100% overcounting of Gazan women and children casualties to “the fog of war,” the global body now says that the overall death toll in Gaza due to the war remains the same. Read more

UN blames ‘fog of war’ for major overcounting of Gazan child fatalities

The United Nations now claims that “the fog of war” is to blame for a major overstatement of the number of Gazan children who have been killed in the war. Read more

Israel’s UN ambassador says UN’s ‘days are numbered’

Israel’s envoy to the United Nations sharply criticized the global body on Wednesday, telling the U.N. General Assembly that the organization’s “days are numbered.” Read more

China, Russia veto US ceasefire resolution at the UN Security Council

China and Russia vetoed a U.S.-drafted resolution at the U.N. Security Council on Friday morning, saying the text didn’t go far enough in calling for a ceasefire in the war against Hamas in Gaza. Read more

Full Monday planned at UN with focus on US vetoes of ceasefire, UNRWA

The hyperfocus of the United Nations on the Israel-Hamas war will be on full display on Monday. Read more

Under scrutiny for Jew-hatred, Harvard hosts UN official who blames Jews for Oct. 7

Anti-Israel vultures of a feather flock together. Read more

‘Farce, desperate scheme to save UNRWA,’ critics slam UN review of its agency’s neutrality

Following allegations that a dozen employees of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East participated directly in Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, the United States and other nations announced their suspension of future funds, pending an investigation. Read more

UN official, accused of silence on Oct. 7, to visit Israel to learn of Hamas sexual violence

Pramila Patten, special representative of the U.N. secretary-general on sexual violence in conflict, plans to arrive in Israel on Monday, the United Nations announced on Thursday. Read more

UN head: Netanyahu won’t answer my phone calls

António Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations, told Al Jazeera on Wednesday from Davos, Switzerland, that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declined to take his phone calls since Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on Oct. 7. Read more

UN: No indication Hamas was building elaborate tunnel system

Despite the presence of a Hamas terror tunnel system in the Gaza Strip, now thought to be larger in scale than the London Underground, the United Nations insists it had no idea the tunnels were being built. Read more

Israeli UN envoy: ‘How morally bankrupt has this body become?’

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, ripped into the U.N. General Assembly during a Tuesday morning meeting while holding up a cake with the face of Kfir Bibas, who will turn one year old in the coming days. Read more

Israel’s UN envoy links Iran to Houthi attacks in Red Sea

Imploring the United Nations Security Council to address the “radioactive Shi’ite elephant in the room,” Israel’s U.N. ambassador on Wednesday linked Iran to the conflicts throughout the region. Read more

Israeli hi-tech may hold key to draining Hamas’s finances

An investigative report published earlier this month purports to show that senior Israeli and American officials had in hand financial intelligence showing the flow of tens of millions of dollars to Hamas and failed to act on it. Read more

Oct 7: Not an international crime to kill soldiers, says UN’s Francesca Albanese

Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur for Palestinian rights, has courted controversy among Israel supporters for her one-sided faulting of Israel for its conflict with the Palestinians and comments she has made which have been widely interpreted as antisemitic. Read more

UN head chides Jewish state, notes ‘legitimate’ Palestinian grievances

In January, Gilad Erdan, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, said during an International Holocaust Remembrance Day event that the international body was “founded upon the ashes of the Holocaust. It was established to ensure such darkness would never be felt by humanity again,” but “when it comes to fighting antisemitism, sadly, the U.N. ignores its purpose.” Read more

Washington’s UN envoy blasts Abbas, Jewish violence in Security Council meeting

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, had harsh words for both Israelis and Palestinians at the U.N. Security Council’s monthly meeting on the Israeli-Palestinian file on Wednesday. Read more

Israeli actors make ‘Golda’ film more grounded, authentic, says director Guy Nattiv

Tel Aviv-born film director Guy Nattiv came to global prominence in 2019 when he won the Academy Award for best live-action short film for “Skin,” about neo-Nazis, violence, skinheads and their tattoos. Read more

At UN Security Council meeting, DC, Moscow and Paris take aim at Israel

Washington’s ambassador to the United Nations repeated claims that yet-untried Israeli suspects involved in a deadly incident earlier this month were terrorists. Read more

UN postpones antisemitism meeting amid stark disagreement

The United Nations was supposed to convene a meeting with Jewish leaders and global antisemitism envoys next week in Cordoba, Spain to unveil its plan to combat antisemitism. It has postponed that meeting, amid stark disagreement over the contents of the draft plan. Read more

UNRWA to cut services after fundraising falls short

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency raised just $107 million during a pledge conference on Friday, well below the $300 million mark it says it needs to continue its operations in Judea and Samaria and neighbouring countries. Read more

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