United Nations
A letter urges U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres to take action to make it clear that anti-Semitism has no place in the United Nations.
A State Department spokesperson tells JNS that the United States is bound by its agreement with the United Nations to issue visas to member states, despite recent threats the regime has made towards American leaders.
The ouster of senior U.N. official Sarah Muscroft for condemning the terror group’s “indiscriminate” rocket fire is “a recipe for misguided self-censorship by U.N. officials,” says Israeli U.N. envoy Gilad Erdan.
The head of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Palestinian Authority was forced to walk back condemnation of PIJ’s “indiscriminate” rocket attacks.
PIJ claims it conditioned the ceasefire on an international effort to secure the release of Bassam al-Sa’adi; Israel agreed to no such condition, says Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz.
Egyptian Ambassador to the United Nations Osama Abdel Khalek made no mention of Palestinian Islamic Jihad during his speech, labeling all Gaza residents killed in the weekend’s conflict as “martyrs,” with no differentiation between terrorists and innocent victims.
“It took him 8 days, 19 delegations, Human Rights Council President, UN Secretary General’s Spokesperson, UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief & countless organizations to speak out against his anti-Semitic comments, for him to finally react,” wrote Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva.
Anne Herzberg, legal advisor for NGO Monitor, blasted in a tweet: “Shocking letter from Miloon Kothari to UNHRC president. He admits that his remarks were not taken out of context.”
Organization president Deborah Isaac wrote that the designation will offer a platform “from which to move the discussion of Zionism and support for Israel in the U.N. from a negative to a positive.”
It wrote to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres that it has “repeatedly warned about anti-Israel bias infecting the U.N. body.”
Yair Lapid writes to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, calling for the disbandment of the Commission of Inquiry on Israel.
“Slurs about a ‘Jewish lobby’ that acts to ‘control’ the media are reminiscent of the darkest days of modern history,” said the Israeli prime minister in a letter to António Guterres.
