UN Watch

January 13, 2025 | Bonnie Glick |

What does Donald Trump’s “Hell to Pay” look like?

President Donald Trump has repeatedly said that if the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, including seven American citizens, are not released before his inauguration on January 20, there will be “hell to...

December 4, 2024 | |

‘Entrenched Anti-Israeli Bias Has Been Laid Bare’: UNGA Passes Three Resolutions Targeting Israel

UNGA Demands Unconditional Israeli Withdrawal, Announces Conference to Promote Palestinian Statehood: The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted on December 3 a resolution...

November 22, 2024 | |

‘We Are United’: Former UNRWA Chief Preached Unity With Iran’s Terror Proxies 

UNRWA Pledged Cooperation With Iran’s Terror Proxies: Pierre Krahenbuhl, the previous head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA), pledged to meet with Iran’s...

September 30, 2024 | |

Hamas Leader in Lebanon Eliminated in Israeli Air Strike Was UNRWA Employee

The leader of Hamas in Lebanon, who doubled up as a prominent educator employed by UNRWA — the UN agency solely dedicated to the descendants of Palestinian refugees — was killed...

January 26, 2024 | |

U.S. Pauses Funding to UNRWA

The State Department announced on January 26 that it will temporarily pause funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). The aid may resume pending the results...

November 16, 2023 | Enia Krivine |

The Palestinian refugee ‘crisis’ is a United Nations-perpetuated myth

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency has a history of hiring staff with connections to terrorist organizations while its schools erase Israel from maps, teach antisemitism and provide cover...

July 23, 2023 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Vital to protect pro-Israel UN votes from Pacific nations

Pressures from China may undermine the core reason certain Pacific nations have Israel's back at the United Nations.

March 21, 2023 | David May, Richard Goldberg

How to Keep Antisemitism Away From Turtle Bay

Another antisemite has turned up in the ranks of senior UN officials — this time in the body’s human rights arm, no less. Craig Mokhiber heads the New York section of the Office of the High Commissioner...

November 18, 2022 | David Adesnik |

Meet Xi and Putin’s Hired Gun Inside the UN

If your dictatorship is facing U.S. or EU sanctions, you can count on Alena Douhan to announce that Western governments are the real human rights violators.

March 31, 2022 | David May |

Biden Administration Failing to Reform U.N.’s Palestinian Refugee Agency

No signs yet of the promised “neutrality, accountability, and transparency” from UNRWA.

January 12, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

The U.N.’s final solution to the Israel question

Its campaign of demonization and delegitimization escalates

July 21, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

The problem with peacekeeping

The UN does it incompetently, corruptly, and criminally

June 2, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Fighting Israel on other battlefields

Enemies of the Jewish state launch attacks at the UN and in the media

November 19, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

UN condemns Iran’s extrajudicial killing of champion wrestler

According to the final tally, 79 countries voted for the resolution to condemn Iran’s regime while 32 voted against the resolution. A total of 64 nations abstained.

November 18, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

The world order is being hijacked

Despots now call the shots at the U.N. and other international organizations

October 15, 2020 | Tzvi Kahn |

UN Elects Worst Violators to Human Rights Council

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday overwhelmingly elected China, Cuba, Gabon, Pakistan, Russia, and Uzbekistan as members of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The election underscores...

October 2, 2020 | Aykan Erdemir, Philip Kowalski

The United Nations: Erdogan’s Favorite Platform for Trolling the World

The United Nations General Assembly, which meets every September, offers authoritarian heads of state their favorite platform for trolling the world. For this year’s 75th annual session, Turkish president...

September 1, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran imposes double execution on champion wrestler for peacefully protesting regime

Courts in the Iranian city of Shiraz slapped a champion wrestler with a shocking penalty of two death sentences and whipping for protesting in 2018 against the Islamic Republic of Iran’s disastrous...

January 21, 2014 | |

“Peace” and Prejudice at the United Nations

Claiming concerns about harming the Middle East “peace process,” the United Nations cultural agency has abruptly postponed an exhibition on Jewish ties to the Holy Land. This dis...

October 21, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Why Did Saudi Arabia Snub the U.S.?

There were some precursors over the last several months to Saudi Arabia’s decision today to ...