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August 26, 2026, 9:25 am

The most important election no one is talking about

After nearly a decade under Secretary-General António Guterres, the United Nations stands at a crossroads.

By Danny Danon

Rafael Mariano Grossi (front), Rebeca Grynspan (left), Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett (second from left) and Macky Sall, candidates for the position of next U.N. secretary-general, during a town hall debate at the U.N. headquarters in New York City, July 23, 2026. (Credit: Mark Garten/UN Photo)

August 24, 2026, 12:07 pm

Jewish candidate for UN sec-gen falls to second place in new round of polling

“After years of bias, failure and eroded trust, the organization needs a leader who is prepared to change the system,” stated Danny Danon, Israeli ambassador to the global body.

By Mike Wagenheim | JNS

A view from the public hearing at the International Court of Justice case on Israel's humanitarian obligations to Palestinians in Gaza, the Hague, Netherlands, April 29, 2025. (Mouneb Taim / Middle East Images via AFP)

March 16, 2026, 12:30 pm

US formally defends Israel in International Court of Justice genocide case

The United States said the genocide charge was part of a broader campaign “to delegitimize the State of Israel and the Jewish people.”

By Shira Li Bartov

Paraguayan Foreign Minister Rubén Ramírez Lezcano (left) and Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar in Jerusalem on Feb. 8, 2026. (Credit: GPO)

March 5, 2026, 10:48 am

Paraguay is first to file brief in support of Israel in South African case before UN court

Paraguay said it wasn’t picking sides in the case South Africa is bringing against the Jewish state but argued that the court must not expand the definition of “genocide.”

By Mike Wagenheim

Francesca Albanese, U.N. Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and Democratic Party Parliament member Arturo Scotto attend a press conference titled “Genocide in Gaza: A Collective Crime” in the press room of the Chamber of Deputies in Rome on Feb. 3, 2026. (Photo by Simona Granati/Corbis via Getty Images, via JNS)

February 13, 2026, 1:08 pm

Austria, Germany, Italy join France in calling for UN to oust Albanese

The German foreign minister said the special rapporteur for the Palestinians has become “untenable in her position.”

By Mike Wagenheim

Francesca Albanese, U.N. special rapporteur, briefs reporters at UN Headquarters. (Credit: Loey Felipe/U.N. Photo)

February 9, 2026, 1:24 pm

‘Humanity has a common enemy,’ UN’s Albanese says of Israel

Francesca Albanese, condemned by numerous countries for antisemitism, accused Israel of "the planning and making of a genocide."

By David Isaac

United Nations Security Council Chambers. (Photo by Tobin Copley, courtesy of flickr.com)

December 4, 2025, 10:20 am

The historic new UN resolution is reason for hope

It took 16 years for the U.N. General Assembly to revoke the shameful “Zionism is racism” resolution, and today, the United Nations remains a hostile environment for Israel.

By Isaac Herzog

The United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women, Reem Alsalem, addresses a press conference in Ankara on July 27, 2022. (Adem ALTAN / AFP) (Photo by ADEM ALTAN/AFP via Getty Images)

December 3, 2025, 8:35 am

Over 300 rabbis and Jewish leaders call for removal of UN official who denied Oct. 7 rapes

Reem Alsalem, the UN rapporteur on violence against women, claimed that “no independent investigation found that rape took place on the 7th of October.”

By Grace Gilson

November 26, 2025, 11:02 am

UNforgivable

No one has been failed in as many ways as Israeli women since Oct.7, and no one has failed them quite as spectacularly as those expected to set the global tone for humanitarianism.

By Sarah Kendis

Reem Alsalem (Photo by UN Women, courtesy of flickr.com)

November 26, 2025, 9:53 am

Time for the UN to salvage its credibility

Alsalem took to social media to cast doubt on the sexual violence, torture and gender-based crimes that occurred on Oct,. 7, 2023

By Danny Danon

The United Nations headquarters in New York, 2007 (Photo by I, Aotearoa, creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons)

November 18, 2025, 9:00 am

UN Security Council endorses Trump Gaza peace plan, foreign stabilization force

US garners world support for 20-point proposal, which also references path to Palestinian statehood, but faces uphill battle convincing countries to provide troops to ensure Strip is demilitarized

By Jacob Magid

Reem Alsalem, U.N. special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, on Oct. 10, 2025. (Credit: Manuel Elías/U.N. Photo)

November 17, 2025, 1:47 pm

‘Stain’ on UN that its adviser ‘denies Hamas rape,’ Israeli envoy says

Special rapporteur Reem Alsalem’s claims are “questionable at best,” the Dinah Project said.

By Mike Wagenheim

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the United Nations General Assembly on September 26, 2025 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

September 26, 2025, 11:51 am

Netanyahu vows at UN to ‘finish the job’ in Gaza

Netanyahu said his speech was being streamed to cell phones in Gaza.

By Grace Gilson

South African judge Navi Pillay, former chair of the independent United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel arrives to a press conference in Geneva, on June 18, 2025. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

September 17, 2025, 3:01 pm

UN commission concludes for the first time that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza

Meanwhile the number of scholars calling on a research group to retract a similar finding has exceeded 500.

By Grace Gilson

Flags of member nations at the United Nations Headquarters (Photo by I, Aotearoa, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

September 12, 2025, 3:16 pm

UN overwhelmingly endorses call to establish Palestinian state without Hamas

Non-binding resolution condemns Oct. 7 massacre, calls on Hamas to free hostages; Israel slams declaration, says it is a reward for Hamas

By Jacob Magid and Agencies