Palestine 194 Distracts from Abbas’ Despotism
Western governments should make clear to Abbas that Palestine 194 is a dead end.
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
The Time Is Now to Reform the UN Human Rights Apparatus
Memos
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
How to Curb Anti-Israel Bias Inside ESG Risk Ratings
Memos
Investors Should Demand Transparency From ESG Research Firms
End-of-year data show that in 2021, investment surged in stocks rated positively by financial research firms on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria, which include an ever-growing list of...
Insights
The Demoralization of the U.N.
The transnational bureaucrats now do Beijing’s bidding
Op-eds
Western Governmental Funds Divest From West Bank While Investing in China
In September, Norway’s Government Pension Fund became the third major Western governmental investment fund since March to divest from companies doing business in West Bank settlements. Participating in...
Policy Briefs
Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: Late July
Policy Tracker
The authoritarian conquest of the UN
Accommodation and engagement are no solution
Op-eds
United Nations Human Rights Council
Norwegian Government Agency Rejects UN Anti-Israel Blacklist
A Norwegian government official clarified last week that Norway’s procurement office will not stop doing business with firms on a United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) blacklist. The rejection,...
Policy Briefs
Europeans Pushing to Boycott Israel Over Annexation Should Think Twice
Calls for economic sanctions against Israel risk a costly collision with U.S. anti-boycott laws, as companies such as Airbnb can attest.
Op-eds
The UN’s Selective Outrage on Occupied Territories
Yesterday during remarks at the AIPAC annual conference, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo referred to the recent publication by the UN Human Rights Office of a database of companies that operate in the...
Op-eds
Torture TV
The Case for Sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s State-Run Media
Monographs
The UN Blacklist, U.S. Laws, and U.S. Policy
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights published on Wednesday a “database” of companies doing business with Israeli settlements. The list includes 112 firms, 94 of them Israeli and the other 18 from...
Policy Briefs
Occupied Elsewhere
Selective Policies on Occupations, Protracted Conflicts, and Territorial Disputes
Monographs
Sanctioning and Rebuilding Venezuela
Memos
Scapegoats of Wrath, Subjects of Benevolence: Turkey’s Minorities Under Erdoğan
Op-eds
The Death of R2P
Remember R2P? Not to be confused with R2-D2 (a robotic character in the Star Wars movies), “Responsibility to Protect” was an international “norm” proposed by UN...
Op-eds
And The Reign Of Terror Continues
In a recent public spat with his domestic political opponents, Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani rebuked conservatives for their continued efforts to impose morality by force. Western media h...