Rikki Zagelbaum is national reporter at JNS based in New York City.
“It was the Democrats that moved away from Israel, not Israel away from the Democrats,” Dan Diker of the Jerusalem Center for Foreign Affairs told JNS.
“Aiding Hamas would require not just a single collaborator, but an extensive network,” Herzi Halevi said. “Yet, even after three years, not a single such person has been found.”
“The changing educational system is central to ‘deradicalizing,’ as the phrase is used, the Palestinian population and future generations,” Gerald Steinberg of NGO Monitor told JNS.
“We feel that we made one huge achievement and that is to move the conversation from whether these crimes happened to what are their consequences,” Israeli legal scholar Cochav Elkayam-Levy told JNS.
“You know, the British Mandate of Palestine is over,” Israel’s UN ambassador told reporters at a press briefing at the United Nations headquarters.
The global body’s focus is “more about bashing Israel, less about concrete efforts, practical solutions and confronting the bad guys,” the Israeli envoy told JNS.
“This is not a case of a few bad apples,” Yoni Tobin, senior policy analyst at JINSA, told JNS. “It’s a case of a rotten tree.”
The report is “an embarrassment to the United Nations and a disservice to genuine human rights accountability,” said Dina Rovner of UN Watch.
