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.
Human rights
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...
Op-eds
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...
Policy Briefs
The UN’s crusade against Israel is fueling the pro-Hamas left
A smirk laid bare the United Nations’ unremitting hostility toward the state of Israel and its people. Last week UN Special Rapporteur Reem Alsalem sat stone-faced and silent as she reluctantly listened...
Op-eds
Human Rights in Turkish-Occupied Cyprus
Erdogan's Record and Its Implications for the Ankara NATO Summit
Legislative Testimonies
The UN’s toxic obsession with Israel lets the world’s worst regimes off scot-free
An absurd report claiming that Israel has committed genocide is the latest example
Op-eds
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...
Insights
Why Christian persecution is Trump’s new foreign policy roadmap
During his first term, President Donald Trump made fighting Christian persecution around the world a foreign policy priority. In his second term, it has become something more than that. The...
Op-eds
Political Exclusion of Syrian Kurds Threatens SDF-Damascus Deal
A dispute over Kurdish political representation and cultural rights is emerging as the primary fault line in the Syrian government’s process of integration with the Kurdish-run semi-autonomous region...
Policy Briefs
Russian Abduction of Ukrainian Children is Part of Effort To Erase Ukrainian Identity
The “largest child abduction case since World War 2” is set to be discussed by the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the U.S. Congress. The March 25 hearing will focus on the Ukrainian...
Policy Briefs
Global Impact of Transnational Repression
Legislative Testimonies
Freedom for Iran: Learning From U.S. Support for Polish Anti-Communists in the 1980s
Memos
Trump announces sanctions relief for Syria
On June 30, US President Donald Trump issued an executive order revoking longstanding sanctions on Syria. “The United States is committed to supporting a Syria that is stable, unified, and...
Op-eds
FDD Uncovers Likely Chinese Intelligence Operation Targeting Recently Laid-Off U.S. Government Employees
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Memos
Israel SitRep: October 16, 2024
Today at 8:30am (ET): “FDD Morning Brief,” featuring Jonathan Schanzer and Edmund Fitton-Brown, FDD Event “Time for Berri to lead Lebanon’s Shiites away from Iran,” Hussain...
Israel at War Situation Report
Durov’s Arrest Is About Telegram as Russian Weapon, Not Free Speech
So-called free speech activists have jumped to defend Pavel Durov after his arrest, but they conveniently forget Russia’s weaponization of his Telegram platform.