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Navi Pillay’s Undeserved Nobel Peace Prize

This year’s winner has a long history of blaming Israel for the world’s problems.

UN Human Rights Council, European Governments Launch Economic Warfare Against Israel

International opprobrium towards the presence of Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria, commonly known as the West Bank, is discernibly shifting from rhetorical condemnation to economic and legal warfare. Three...

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.

Previewing the 2026 UN General Assembly

Melania Trump got it right: Russia must return Ukraine’s stolen children

President Donald Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 28 at the White House, where they discussed how to resuscitate peace talks between Russia and Ukraine....

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Can US Engagement Rescue the United Nations From Irrelevance?

The next UN leader will take office at a time when the international body is experiencing an unprecedented crisis of purpose.

The law that devoured itself

International law, between universalist fiction and organized impotence

Interim Venezuelan president ousts defense chief as Washington makes limited progress in Caracas

Venezuelan acting President Delcy Rodríguez replaced longtime Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López with General Gustavo Gonzalez López on March 18, followed by implementing a sweeping reshuffle of...

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...

South African Government Continues Antagonizing U.S.

South Africa is defiant, refusing to distance itself from the Islamic Republic despite U.S. Ambassador Brent Bozell stating that “an association with Iran is an impediment to good relations with the...

South Africa Should Stand with the Iranian People, Not Their Oppressors

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei may be dead, but the warm feelings linger on in South Africa. The Islamic Republic’s brutal repression of its civilians and the US-Israeli operation against...

Iran Protests Highlight South Africa’s Broken Moral Compass

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‘Completely False’: Tehran’s Top Prosecutor Denies 800 Executions Were Halted After Trump Intervention

Iranian Prosecutor Denies U.S. Claim to Have Prevented 800 Hangings: Iran’s top prosecutor, Mohammad Movahedi, vehemently denied President Donald Trump’s claim that his threats...

The Gaslighting Masterclass Happening Now In Doha

A masterclass in gaslighting is being given in Doha right now. Qatar is hosting the Conference of State Parties (CoSP) to the United Nations Convention Against Corruption from December 15 through 19. It’s...

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.