United Nations

The international community “must not serve the agenda of the [Palestinian] terrorist organizations,” Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett tells U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

“We hope that it can serve as an easily adaptable reference point to address the needs of all vulnerable communities on the receiving end of online harm,” said the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.

“Friends, fellow ambassadors … the question we must all ask ourselves is: Are we doing enough? We must ask this every day till the bloodshed stops,” said Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan.

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva Meirav Eilon Shahar said “Israel does not expect fair, objective or professional treatment from an activist who promotes outrageous libels.”

A film recounting a tale of African bondage and freedom, told through modern-day social media, becomes the focal point for a U.N.-sponsored event to mark the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Its author, U.N. Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk, called on the global community to implement associability measures to end such practices.

With regional tensions simmering and the potential for everything to boil over with the approach of Passover, Easter and Ramadan, U.N. Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland led off by summarizing the work of planning committees to prepare for the possible construction of 3,400 homes in Israel’s capital.

“Our report is for legal professionals, academics, practitioners and government officials, but it is also for those who are looking for answers to the false and often malicious charges by NGO and U.N. Rapporteurs who grossly misrepresent the Arab-Israeli conflict, the legal basis for Israel as a Jewish state, and the nature of [its] democracy and legal system,” said Anne Herzberg of NGO Monitor.

“Lebanon must not allow Hezbollah to negatively influence regional security and stability,” says Gilad Erdan.

Anne Bayefsky, director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and president of Human Rights Voices, urges attendees of the Conservative Political Action Conference to act against the U.N.’s defamatory Commission of Inquiry (COI) into alleged war crimes by Israel.

The U.N. General Assembly resolution saw a region with divergent interests take a unified, though often pressurized, stance on the conflict.

The resolution, supported by 141 of the assembly’s 193 members, demanded that Moscow end the fighting immediately and withdraw its military forces.