Israel should say goodbye to the rotten and racist United Nations
The United Nations is a racist and corrupt institution that is beyond reform. Israel should ask itself if it wants to remain part of it. Probably not.
Israel should accept no more bullying from the United Nations (UN). It should ban UN staff and operations in its territory immediately and consider quitting the corrupt anti-Semitic body for good.
It might sound extreme, but the case for quitting is growing. The world has always hated Jews and now the Jews have their country back, the world's representative body is attacking it relentlessly. Staying in the UN is like hanging out behind the school shelter shed with all the bullies who are never going to graduate.
The latest outrage - yet another blood libel - is the UN’s inclusion of Israel on a list of states it alleges to be the worst violators of children’s human rights in armed conflicts. The UN has based this on demonstrably inflated and deceitful statistics, the use of which characterizes the UN’s approach to the Jewish state. The UN is so morally lost that it does not condemn the abduction of Israeli civilians as hostages, but gets outraged by the rescuing of them.
The UN is so anti-Israel and anti-Semitic that it is almost satirical. The United Nation Relief and Works Agency’s (UNRWA) headquarters in Gaza was built atop of and connected to a Hamas intelligence and communications hub, at least 12 UNRWA staff were directly involved in the October 7 pogrom, the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. About 10 percent of its UNRWA staff have known ties to Hamas, and many employees glorified the October 7 pogrom. It is a terrorist organization.
UN Women had to be shamed into condemning Hamas’ systematic raping, torture, and murder of Israeli women and girls. The UN has continually passed resolutions that fail to condemn Hamas and pressured Israel for a ceasefire that would keep the terrorist group in power in Gaza.
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), one of the world’s most disreputable bodies, has passed more resolutions condemning Israel than against Iran, Syria, North Korea, China, Cuba and Venezuela combined. The council’s members comprise the world’s worst rights abusers such as China, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Cuba.
Israel is the only country that the UNHRC has a standing agenda item against in each session. Item 7, titled “Human Rights Situation in Palestine and Other Occupied Arab Territories”, is also the only item that singles out a specific country, guaranteeing Israel gets condemned in every session.
The UN stinks from the head. Under Secretary-General Antonio Guterres the UN “has become an anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli body that shelters and emboldens terror”, Israeli foreign minister Israel Katz has said.
Guterres, a moral pauper, said, “It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.” This is a lie. There have been no Israelis in Gaza since 2005. His suggestion that there is some way a pogrom could be justified shows his moral retardation.
Israel’s foreign ministry also said that Guterres has shown “little resolve” to tackle rampant antisemitism within the UN. This is clear. Guterres is not alone. The UN has a clone army of anti-Semites.
Consider the vile Francesca Albanese, who has the energy of someone possessed by a dybbuk. She is the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, a title that is as biased and anti-Israel as her, as it presumes that disputed land is occupied. Her worldview, if one could call it that, is mired in deranged anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and tropes.
She has written that “America is subjugated by the Jewish Lobby”, and regularly portrays Israelis as Nazis. In 2022, she told a Hamas conference that, “You have a right to resist”, and she has denied that the fact that Hamas’ October 7 attack was the worst attack on Jews since the Second World War. France and Germany rightly called out her undisguised Jew hatred. They should also have asked why a UN representative was addressing a Jihadist conference.
Then there is the stink of corruption. UN Watch, a Geneva-based watchdog, recently lodged a legal complaint with the UN alleging that Albanese had engaged in serious financial misconduct and ethical abuses. The complaint alleges that Albanese illegally requested payments for work done in her official capacity and had payment for them directed to her research assistant, Sara Troian, to circumvent regulations. 1
“Francesca Albanese’s unethical financial practices are a gross violation of UN rules. The United Nations should take immediate action to investigate these allegations and hold her accountable,” said Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch. He also called on the UN to disclose all Albanese’s expenses and honoraria.
The complaint also alleges Albanese co-founded and runs the “Global Network on the Question of Palestine”, an anti-Israel influence network that includes officials from the murderous Palestinian Liberation Organization and UNRWA. She runs it under the auspices of the laughably named Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development in Amman, an organization she joined in November 2018 as a senior advisor.
This is appalling, but not surprising. The UN has form. It 1975 it voted that Zionism was racist. In other words, it supported the extraordinary notion that Jews living in their ancestral home was tantamount to racism. It twice elected Nazi Kurt Waldheim as its leader.
UN peacekeeping efforts in the Middle East reflect the UN's incompetence and its disinterest in keeping Israel - the world’s only Jewish state and the Middle East’s only democracy - safe. In the last week alone, Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon has fired thousands of missiles at Israel's north under the direct watch of UN peacekeepers who are stationed there doing nothing. UN peacekeepers have failed Israel every time they have been deployed since the 1956 Second Arab-Israeli War.
Israel exists for Jews to govern themselves and be safe from exactly the kind of persecution in which the UN is engaging. How does it make sense for Israel to cooperate with or legitimize a body that is corrupt, biased, racist, and actively engaging in terror against the Jewish state? That is madness.
Anti-Semitism surges when Jews are prominent and perceived as weak. Jews will always be prominent, but never again weak. The time might be coming for Israel to demonstrate that to the UN. Israel should begin by declaring UNRWA a terror organization, because it is one. It should shutter its operations in Israel and cease all cooperation with it.
Israel should slow or reject UN staff visa renewals and boycott UN officials. UN missions, including UNICEF, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process should be put on notice for imminent termination and expulsion.
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