United Nations

June 25, 2025, 12:07 pm

Israel’s international spokesperson to the UN shares insights on Oct. 7, Iran

“We’ve invited recently released hostages and families of hostages still held to the U.N. because the U.N. never came to them in their time of need.”

By David Rullo

New York Republican U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik displays the Anti-Defamation League's "F" campus report card grade for Northwestern as the presidents of that school, Rutgers, and UCLA testify before the committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, United States on May 23, 2024. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

March 28, 2025, 12:27 pm

Trump nixes pro-Israel darling Elise Stefanik’s nomination to be UN ambassador

Trump cited the Republicans’ razor-thin majority in Congress, where Stefanik has served in the party leadership.

By Ben Sales

Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur for Palestinian rights, briefs reporters at U.N. Headquarters, Oct. 30, 2024. (Credit: Mark Garten/U.N. Photo)

February 17, 2025, 1:52 pm

UN official employs word salads in defending anti-Jewish, anti-Israel vitriol

Challenged by a Norwegian journalist, Francesca Albanese says “you can make up your own definition” of antisemitism.

By Mike Wagenheim

Israeli President Isaac Herzog addresses the U.N. Holocaust Memorial Ceremony: Holocaust Remembrance for Dignity and Human Rights in observance of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, Jan. 27, 2025. (Credit: Manuel Elías/U.N. Photo)

January 29, 2025, 10:11 am

Herzog slams UN ‘moral bankruptcy’ at its Holocaust memorial event

The Hamas terrorist organization “drew inspiration from Hitler and the Nazis in attacking Israel on Oct. 7, 2023,” the Israeli president told the United Nations.

By Mike Wagenheim

Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), at a press briefing on Sept. 21, 2023 in New York. (Credit: Manuel Elías/U.N. Photo)

January 8, 2025, 4:28 pm

UNRWA ‘knowingly’ let Hamas infiltrate, per UN Watch report

Terror groups "significantly influence the policies and practices of a U.N. agency with 30,000 employees, and a $1.5 billion annual budget," per the report.

By JNS Staff

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

December 27, 2024, 11:59 am

UN adviser scolds follower for saying all Jews, not just Israelis, are cannibals

Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur for the Palestinians: “[M]any, including Holocaust survivors, continue to rise against Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians.”

By Mike Wagenheim

Decals of slain Israelis bearing powerful messages on a wall on a Jerusalem street (Photo by Toby Tabachnick)

December 26, 2024, 10:26 am

Health Ministry compiles hostage testimonies to submit to UN

Final report to be presented to UN committee that deals with torture; health minister says it should be a ‘wake-up call’ to pressure Hamas into releasing remaining captives

By By Stuart Winer and Diana Bletter

Robert Wood, deputy permanent U.S. representative to the United Nations, votes against a U.N. Security Council resolution on the Middle East, Nov. 20, 2024. (Credit: Loey Felipe/U.N. Photo)

November 20, 2024, 2:02 pm

Casting lone ‘no’ vote, US vetoes UN Security Council ceasefire resolution

“We could not support an unconditional ceasefire that failed to release the hostages,” Robert Wood, the deputy U.S. ambassador to the global body, told the council.

By Mike Wagenheim

Headquarters of the United Nations in New York City. (Credit: jpeter2/Pixabay)

November 16, 2024, 8:23 pm

US balks at ‘unbalanced’ UN resolutions ‘unfairly critical of Israel’

Member states that really want peace “should seek to end the persistent bias within the United Nations against Israel."

By JNS

Former Hamas leader in Lebanon Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin (circled) at an undated UNRWA event. (Source: UN Watch)

October 29, 2024, 2:59 pm

Knesset bans UNRWA, outlaws all official contact

The legislation, which the U.S. and E.U. oppose, follows revelations about the U.N. agency's complicity in Palestinian terrorism.

By Canaan Lidor and Amelie Botbol

United Nations building. (Photo by U.S. Department of State, courtesy of flickr.com)

September 18, 2024, 3:54 pm

UN General Assembly demands Israeli pullout from Palestinian areas

Resolution put forward by Palestinians urges embargo on arms that might be used in territories; Israel's Foreign Ministry says ‘cynical’ motion harms peace, encourages terror

By Lazar Berman and Agencies

A press briefing with UNRWA commissioner-general Philippe Lazzarini on June 12, 2023. (Credit: United Nations Information Service Vienna)

June 24, 2024, 11:52 am

Oct. 7 survivors sue UNRWA

The U.N. agency has participated in a fraud and corruption scheme to benefit Hamas going back more than a decade, according to the lawsuit

By Mike Wagenheim

April 3, 2024, 10:50 am

Chronicle poll results: US abstention from UN resolution on Israel

We asked our readers if the U.S. should have vetoed the U.N. resolution calling for a cease-fire during Ramadan and the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages. Here's what they said.

By Toby Tabachnick

March 27, 2024, 10:32 am

Chronicle poll question

Should the U.S. have vetoed the U.N. resolution calling for a cease-fire during Ramadan and the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages?

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. envoy to the U.N., votes during a Security Council meeting in which a resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip for the month of Ramadan, leading to 'a lasting sustainable' cease-fire, in New York, March 25, 2024. (Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via Getty Images)

March 25, 2024, 7:51 pm

US allows Gaza ceasefire resolution at the UN to pass

Prompts anger from Netanyahu

By Ron Kampeas