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“All options are on the table,” warned Iran’s mission to the United Nations.
“Whether it is classified as a famine or not is not the point,” said the chief economist at the World Food Programme, a United Nations agency.
Farida Shaheed’s “mischaracterization” of the IHRA antisemitism definition harms efforts to ensure “students can access the education they deserve.”
Tennessee congressman Tim Burchett introduced a bipartisan bill that rejects the global body’s decision.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the expansion of Judea and Samaria communities was “inconsistent with international law” and “only serves to weaken Israeli security.”
“There can be no moral equivalence between those who recognize the right of other U.N. members to exist and those who don’t,” said CEO Ted Deutch.
Concern grows in U.N. Security Council over Tehran’s nuclear advancements, with European powers taking a leading role.
The Famine Review Committee found reports, including those put forward by the United Nations, that Israel is starving Gazans to be implausible.
“Disseminating misleading or false information … raises serious questions” about the world body’s neutrality, Israel Katz writes to António Guterres.
“We’ll provide strategic guidance, research insights and a moral voice rooted in Jewish perspectives,” Yfat Barak-Cheney, the project’s inaugural director, told JNS.
The exhibit coincided with the presentation by the Human Rights Council Commission of Inquiry’s latest report on the Oct. 7 massacre.
Virginia Gamba, special representative to the U.N. secretary-general, told JNS that word count limits left no space to mention that the terror organization embeds deliberately among civilians.