United Nations General Assembly

August 2, 2025 | |

France Halts Gaza Evacuations After Antisemitic Posts by Gazan Student

Halt to Gaza Evacuations: France will deport a Palestinian student from Gaza and halt all further evacuations from the war-torn enclave after she allegedly posted antisemitic content...

July 31, 2025 | Ellie Bufkin |

Keir Starmer’s empty threat won’t save Gaza, it will reward the terrorists

The U.K.’s Prime Minister tried to make a splash in the Middle East with his announcement that he will recognize a Palestinian state in September unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire and commits to a...

July 31, 2025 | |

Trump Warns That Canadian Recognition of Palestinian Statehood May Derail Trade Deal Negotiations

Palestine Recognition Makes Trade Deal ‘Very Hard’: President Donald Trump declared that Canada’s announcement that it plans to recognize a Palestinian state would affect...

July 31, 2025 | Natalie Ecanow |

Did Qatar Just Take a Step Back From Hamas?

This week’s UN conference on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict resulted in a rare moment of international unity. On July 29, 17 countries, the European Union, and the Arab League, signed a declaration...

July 29, 2025 | |

UK Prime Minister Announces Intention to Recognize Palestinian State

Formal Recognition Planned for September: UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced that the United Kingdom will formally recognize a Palestinian state if Israel does not take...

July 25, 2025 | |

France’s Macron Announces Intent to Recognize Palestinian State

French Letter of Intent: French President Emmanuel Macron announced on July 24 that Paris would formally recognize a Palestinian state in September at the UN General Assembly. “In...

July 10, 2025 | |

Future of UNRWA Uncertain as Agency Faces $200 Million Deficit

Determining the Future of UNRWA: Members of the UN General Assembly were presented with four proposals to determine the future direction of UNRWA, the UN agency responsible for...

June 13, 2025 | |

‘This Is Not Diplomacy, It Is Surrender’: UN General Assembly Demands Unconditional Ceasefire in Gaza

Resolution Against Israel Passed: The UN General Assembly (UNGA) voted 149 to 12, with 19 abstentions, to pass a resolution demanding “an immediate, unconditional and permanent...

May 16, 2025 | Ben Cohen |

The ‘nakba’ is not our problem

There is no reason why Jews should be troubled by the neurosis it projects. Their defeat was our liberation, and we should rejoice in that fact.

May 15, 2025 | Jonathan Schanzer, Enia Krivine

The Department of Justice’s long-awaited reckoning for UNRWA has arrived

The Department of Justice (DOJ) last month took a potentially giant step in the effort to combat the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas by asserting that UNRWA, unlike other UN agencies, is not immune from...

May 9, 2025 | Ben Cohen |

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.

May 1, 2025 | |

‘Hamas Misusing UNRWA’: U.S. Defends Israel’s Right to Shun UN Agency at World Court

Israel Cannot Be Compelled to Work With UNRWA: The United States rose to Israel’s defense during the ongoing hearings at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over questions...

April 29, 2025 | |

A ‘Legal Process to Persecute Israel’: UN Court Holds Hearings on Israel’s Block on Aid Into Gaza

UNRWA Ban at Heart of Case: Hearings are ongoing at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague over questions relating to Israel’s legal obligations concerning the...

April 29, 2025 | Annie Fixler |

Shaping the Future of Cyber Diplomacy

Review for State Department Reauthorization

April 29, 2025 | David May, Jake Schlanger

5 Wasteful and Harmful UN Organizations That Delegitimize Israel

As the Trump administration undertakes a review of U.S. support for the United Nations, it should defund and seek the elimination of five UN organizations that exist primarily to delegitimize Israel. Toward...

March 14, 2025 | Ben Cohen |

It’s time to abolish the UN’s pro-Hamas bureaucracy

Fifty years later, the world body still behaves as though “Zionism is racism” remains on the books.

February 14, 2025 | Ivana Stradner, Marina Chernin

Russia is using Trump’s Greenland rhetoric to boost its Crimea claims

Last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted that President Donald Trump’s desire to acquire the Danish territory of Greenland is “not a joke.” At least one person,...

January 3, 2025 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

The Shadow War

A review of Yonah Jeremy Bob and Ilan Evyatar, “Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination—and Secret Diplomacy—to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East” (Simon & Schuster, 2023).

December 20, 2024 | |

‘Crisis of Confidence’: Sweden Eliminates UNRWA Funding Despite Nearly Doubling Gaza Aid for 2025 

UNRWA Cut Out of Receiving Aid: Sweden announced on December 20 that it would stop funding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) — the UN agency solely dedicated...

December 5, 2024 | Orde Kittrie, David Adesnik, Richard Goldberg, Elizabeth Robbins

What’s being missed? Amnesty International, ICC, UN, and Israel