“There’s the great myth of peaceful coexistence of Jews in the Arab countries, which is a staple of Palestinian propaganda,” Lyn Julius, cofounder of a group focused on Jews of the Middle East and North Africa, told JNS.
United Nations
“You traded your integrity, your credibility, your reputation for a few more months on a UN salary,” Danny Danon told Pramila Patten.
A new watchdog report raises uncomfortable questions about how the United Nations verifies claims before shaping the global narrative.
Donor governments are funding the agency on the strength of promised reforms, while inciting and antisemitic material reportedly remains in its classrooms.
Washington is urging donor nations to stop financing an agency accused of perpetuating refugee dependency, tolerating incitement, and allowing Hamas-linked personnel to operate within its ranks.
The Israeli ambassador accused Vanessa Frazier, the UN special representative for children and armed conflict, of amplifying antisemitic content and unverified claims about Israel, and called for a review of her continued suitability for office.
Ilana Gritzewsky stood before the Human Rights Council not as a statistic, but as a survivor — and exposed an institution willing to indict Israel instantly while hesitating to believe Jewish women.
The report is “an embarrassment to the United Nations and a disservice to genuine human rights accountability,” said Dina Rovner of UN Watch.
During a heated exchange at a conference on conflict-related sexual violence, Israel’s ambassador accused senior United Nations representatives of bias against the Jewish state.
“The UN’s methodology is unreliable, as it has traditionally counted as ‘settler violence’ even incidents of self-defense by Jews,” international law expert Eugene Kontorovich told JNS.
