Navi Pillay: Nobel and Noxious
Crowned with the Nobel Peace Prize, the South African-born former UN High Commissioner is far from a consensus figure, given how selective her battles have been. Hard on Israel, but soft on China over the Uyghurs?
Durban
The UN made racism against Jews acceptable.
Twenty-five years ago, Jews went to the “United Nations World Conference Against Racism” to fight racism. They left learning that Jew-hatred would be treated differently.
Op-eds
25 Years of UN/NGO Racism
Foreign Podicy
The U.N.’s long war against Israel
For half a century, the most globalist of institutions has demonized the Jewish state
Op-eds
South Africa Rejects ISIS-Linked Political Party
The case of Farhad Hoomer has demonstrated South Africa’s difficulties in dealing with homegrown terrorism.
Op-eds
When did the current wave of antisemitism begin?
To my mind, the sickening fate of journalist Daniel Pearl signaled the beginning of the revived trend that Jews are still confronting.
Op-eds
With Israel under attack, Biden must fight UN anti-Semitism
As the Iran-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad lobbed hundreds of rockets at Israel this weekend, a UN Human Rights Council official took to Twitter to denounce the Jewish state, labeling Israeli acts...
Op-eds
Israel Is Not Russia, and Palestinians Are Not Ukraine
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine set off an immediate wave of boycotts and sanctions targeting Moscow. These swift and comprehensive economic punishments have left the frustrated activists of the Boycott,...
Op-eds
Biden Can Reset the UN’s Discriminatory Approach to Israel
The United States led when it persuaded the General Assembly to repeal its 1975 vote declaring Zionism to be racism. It should now actively and decisively lead the effort to end the Commission of Inquiry, which the UNHRC created to conclude essentially the same thing.
Op-eds
Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: September
Policy Tracker
The Squad loves dead Jews
Support for Hamas implies nothing less
Op-eds
Boykott
Germany’s Battle Against the Delegitimization of Israel
Monographs
Why Congress must follow Germany and brand BDS anti-Semitic
Ending the boycott of Israel
Op-eds
German–Iranian dissidents urge MP to resign from antisemitic BDS NGO
Nouripour should quit due to "his Iranian identity: there is only one dictatorship in this world that has an antisemitic state doctrine, namely the Islamic Republic.”
Op-eds
War by Other Means
A History of Anti-Israel Boycotts, From the Arab League to BDS
Monographs
South Africa Adds to Its Long Record of Israel-Bashing
South Africa recalled its ambassador to Israel two weeks ago to condemn the “violent aggressio...
Op-eds
Managing Terrorism Financing Risk in Remittances and Money Transfers
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Legislative Testimonies
European Affairs: BDS spreading like wildfire in Europe?
To fathom the potency (or lack thereof) of the BDS movement targeting Israel, the diverging and converging paths of its activity in the US and EU can be quite telling. First, the diverge...
Op-eds
Mounting a Defense Against Economic Warfare
Attempts to exterminate Israel through what we have come to call “kinetic warfare” began immediately following Arab rejection of the UN Partition Plan of 1947 -- the first offer of a...
Op-eds
How the Tragedy of 9/11 Made Canada a Better, More Sensible Country
How much has Canada changed in the last eleven years? Consider this: As the World Trade Center rubble was still smoldering, the then-leader of Canada’s left-wing NDP party, Alexa McDonough,...