Francesca Albanese

November 13, 2026 | David May |

Using the UN as a Moral Compass, Providence Divests From Israel — and Reality

Providence, Rhode Island, wants to be a moral beacon. To get there, it is relying on a woman notorious for her antisemitism. On Nov. 3, Providence became the largest US city to order divestment from...

November 11, 2026 | Ben Cohen, Gil Kapen

Ending discrimination against Israel at the UN is an American interest

Something exceedingly rare occurred at the United Nations on Nov. 6. Simply put, Israel was treated like a normal member state. The occasion was the election of Shai Mizrahi, a senior official in the...

October 30, 2026 | Ben Cohen |

The UN secretary-general race is steeped in intrigue. Should we care?

Like it or not, the United States and the State of Israel have to deal with the world body.

September 25, 2026 | Ben Cohen |

The UN is still obsessed with Israel

Antisemitism simmers within the world body, most notably these days in the actions and words of Francesca Albanese, the special rapporteur on the “occupied Palestinian territories.”

September 10, 2026 | Richard Goldberg, Ben Cohen, Joe Dougherty

Previewing the 2026 UN General Assembly

July 29, 2026 | Simone Rodan-Benzaquen |

When Paris Celebrates the Bankruptcy of Human Rights

On Monday, July 27, at the United Nations Security Council, American diplomats stood up and walked out as the French ambassador began to speak. Ukraine was the item on the agenda that day. In Moscow and...

July 24, 2026 | Ben Cohen |

U.S. Must Oppose Outgoing UN Secretary General’s Efforts To Renew Human Rights Commissioner

Interviewed by the left-leaning Guardian newspaper shortly after his appointment as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2022, Volker Turk effusively praised the UN’s Universal Declaration...

June 26, 2026 | David May, Theodore Schneiderman

10 Cases of UN Abuse, Waste, and Subversion of U.S. Interests

The United Nations is hurtling toward self-inflicted insolvency, and it has itself to blame. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres needs to secure $8.68 billion to keep the lights on for regular operations...

May 29, 2026 | Clifford D. May

UN Watch Report: Watching the U.N. Rot

May 28, 2026 | Orde Kittrie |

Court of Appeals Temporarily Reinstates Sanctions on Antisemitic UN Envoy Francesca Albanese

Reversing a lower court’s decision, a federal appeals court has temporarily reinstated U.S. sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the UN envoy who, according to the State Department, “has spewed unabashed...

May 22, 2026 | Orde Kittrie |

Justice Department Appeals Federal Judge’s Ruling That First Amendment Protections Apply to Sanctioned UN Special Rapporteur

The sanctions imposed by the United States against Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur for “human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967,” are the focus of a legal...

November 26, 2025 | David May |

Former South African Foreign Minister’s U.S. Visa Revoked

“She led South Africa to sue Israel for genocide,” read a flyer for a recent appearance by Naledi Pandor in Houston. Don’t expect another U.S. speech in the near future from the former South African...

November 10, 2025 | David May, Ben Cohen

Fifty Years of Gaslighting Israel at the U.N.

Five decades after its creation, it's long past time for the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People to be shut down.

October 17, 2025 | Ben Cohen |

Fifty years since the UN’s ‘Zionism is racism’ resolution

In adopting it, the world body became the main vehicle for the promotion of Jew-hatred, creating a bureaucratic apparatus designed to amplify the Arab and Palestinian campaign to eliminate Israel as a sovereign state.

October 16, 2025 | Ben Cohen, David May

50 Years of Anti-Zionist Propaganda: Why the UN’s ‘Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People’ Must Be Dismantled

September 5, 2025 | Ben Cohen |

Norway extends its Israel divestment campaign to the United States

Anti-Zionist ideology has crystallized as the dominant form of antisemitism in this century, with labor unions engaging it, and in some cases, propelling it.

August 27, 2025 | Clifford D. May |

The U.N.’s long war against Israel

For half a century, the most globalist of institutions has demonized the Jewish state

August 5, 2025 | David May, Jake Schlanger

7 UN Organizations That Undermine Israel and the U.S.

The Trump administration announced on July 22 its departure from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) by the end of 2026. State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce...

July 29, 2025 | Orde Kittrie |

Media mischaracterized federal court decision on ICC sanctions

The contentious debate over President Donald Trump’s sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) took a new turn recently when a federal judge’s preliminary injunction (PI) blocked...

July 28, 2025 | Enia Krivine |

Marco Rubio Fights Lawfare with Sanctions — and Wins

A UN official is getting her due for persecuting Israel and the United States using a bogus international court system — and she won’t be the last. On July 9, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio imposed sanctions...