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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
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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
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, meets Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar in Jerusalem on Feb. 16, 2025 (Rafi Ben Hakun/GPO)
August 29, 2025, 1:51 pm
US says it’s denying visas to Palestinian officials for UN General Assembly next month
Rubio says PA and PLO officials to be barred from visiting UN headquarters in NYC over their ‘efforts to secure the unilateral recognition of a conjectural Palestinian state’
By Jacob Magid
Delegates at work at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. (UN Photo/Manuel Elias)
August 21, 2025, 1:57 pm
Most Americans believe UN members should recognize Palestinian statehood
78% of Democrats and 41% of Republicans supported the idea, which U.S. officials are not prioritizing.
By Grace Gilson
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