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UN Watch report says the P.A. and Hamas routinely torture human rights activists, women, members of the LGBT community, political opponents, “collaborators” with Israel, and Palestinians who sell land to Jews.
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
According to a video post, this is the first shipment of such weapons to be transported across the Lebanese border.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
A report by UN Watch exposed 120 UNRWA teachers who publicly called to murder Jews.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
DM Gantz once again called on the Palestinian Authority to “deliver the bullet that hit Shireen, to the State of Israel. That is what must be done in order to uncover the truth.”
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan was elected on Tuesday to serve as Vice President of the 77th UN General Assembly for the coming year.
“Out of 28 items on the current world health assembly’s agenda,” said Neuer, “only one focused on a specific country—Israel.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The new budget will provide $82 million annually, compared to the previous figure of $135 million, according to the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se).
“For the past six years, we documented how Lynk was acting not like an impartial UN investigator, but rather like an agent for the PLO,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch.
A group of NGOs has partnered to submit millions of pieces of evidence in support of Israel, countering the preconceived narrative of the United Nations so-called Commission of Inquiry.
In May 2021, the UNHRC approved an open-ended investigation of Israel’s alleged “war crimes, treatment of Palestinians, and human rights violations.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel's UN Mission pointed out that UN's Michael Lynk is “well known for his blatant and disturbing anti-Israel views. "
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel has established an inter-ministry team that will examine the effects and consequences of the sanctions on Russia on the Israeli economy and policy.
The report shows that even the Arctic regions will not be immune, and even there a significant increase in the number of forest fires is expected.
According to the reportm Navi Pillay, a retired South African judge and former UN human rights chief, violated UN rules by failing to disclose numerous of her prior statements that directly prejudge the matters before the inquiry.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The United States and Israel left UNESCO in December 2018 after the organization passed several anti-Israel resolutions.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It represents second incident within a month • UNIFIL spokesperson says peacekeepers were on routine patrol.
The council held its regular meeting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, drawing almost no top diplomats as planned, as the United States and the United Arab Emirates redirected the focus to other pressing concerns in the Middle East and around the world.
The Emiratis join Albania, Brazil, Gabon and Ghana in installing their countries’ flags outside the council chamber, replacing Estonia, Niger, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tunisia and Vietnam.
International political negotiations with UN countries on this resolution have been ongoing for several months, Israel’s mission to the UN said, and will go public this week.
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
According to the U.S. State Department's Population, Refugees, and Migrations Bureau, the funds will "provide education, health care, and emergency relief to hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children and families during a time of need."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The IDF and UNIFIL cooperate in returning the Israeli civilian from the Negev region who "apparently entered Lebanon voluntarily."
By UN Watch
In an April 2021 secret ballot, the UN’s Economic and Social Council elected Iran's gender apartheid regime to a 4-year term on its Commission on the Status of Women.
“The UN’s assault on Israel with a torrent of one-sided resolutions is surreal,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.N. General Assembly passed three resolutions this week that targeted Israel, which brings the total to 14 resolutions being adopted in the next month that single out the Jewish state.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The UN event ignored the history of massacres and expulsions of 850,000 Jews from Arab countries as well as Iran.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
A recent report by the UN Watch exposed that more than 100 UNRWA employees posted content on social media that spreads hatred against Israel and Israelis, encourages anti-Semitism, and supports terrorism.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The [Biden] administration abstained on an issue of hate and bigotry,” said Rabbi Yaakov Menken, managing director of the Coalition for Jewish Values. “This is not moral leadership.”
By Ariel Kahana
UNRWA chief ties move to criticism of P.A. curriculum taught in U.N. agency’s schools. The U.K. was the third largest UNRWA donor in 2020.
"They are encouraged to love and conserve birds, in their gardens or at work, now and forever."
"The PFLP operates an organizational and military apparatus, including a network of purported civilian institutions."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
“Since the establishment of the council 15 years ago, it has decided to blame and condemn Israel, not 10 times like Iran, or 35 times like Syria. No, the Human Rights Council has attacked Israel with 95 resolutions. Compared to 142 against all other countries combined.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
During Communication Minister Yoaz Hendel's meeting with U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband, he discussed the need for cooperation between regulators to effectively regulate social networks.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel must approve individuals receiving aid to ensure that money goes to the poor and not to Hamas.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken noted its bias, saying the council “suffers from serious flaws, including disproportionate attention on Israel and the membership of several states with egregious records.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Dagan demanded that Wennesland withdraw unilateral accusations he made at the UN against Israelis living in Samaria.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
There are plenty of people in Israel who think shutting down UNRWA's completely would be a positive step.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The EU is the Palestinian Authority’s largest donor.
Iran’s nuclear program has hit a watershed moment and so has our tolerance. Words do not stop centrifuges from spinning."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The speech by Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas comes amid deepening unpopularity among Palestinian Authority citizens; a recent poll found that 80 percent want him to resign.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
No head of state spoke at the event, except the South African president who sponsored the rally.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Local Druze citizens in Lebanon stopped the rocket unit and detained the terrorists.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
This is hardly the first time UNRWA has found Hamas weapons and explosives hidden below its compounds.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Upon learning of the presence of UNMAS inspectors at the school, Hamas police arrived on the scene and forced them to leave.
The UN secretary-general called on all parties to exercise utmost restraint, ignoring, as usual, that the attacks were instigated from Lebanon.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
“UNRWA once again proves that it is not a humanitarian organization but an organization that encourages terrorism under the auspices of UN hypocrisy,” Ambassador Erdan stated.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The report examined the online statements of UNRWA employees and teachers.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We once again have an ongoing partner in the United States,” says UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini.
The UN reporting "often omits the 'implementing partners' that receive the funding to carry out the programs."
Im Tirtzu advocates increased transparency and the passing of a UN equivalent of the Taylor Force Act.
By David Isaac
“UNRWA is a very problematic organization."
“Out of pragmatic considerations, Israel has learned to accept China’s contradictory policy over time,” said Tuvia Gering, an analyst at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security. “In other, more private forums, China and Israel can enjoy each other’s company.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Bahrain voted in favor of the resolution along with other countries with poor human-rights records, including China, Russia, Cuba, Libya, Uzbekistan, Somalia, Pakistan and Venezuela.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Today’s assault on Israel at the WHO promoted the lie that Israel is harming Palestinian health rights. The opposite is true.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
In its statement, the Security Council fails to mention Hamas by name and only remarks on “Palestinian rocket fire.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Last month, the Biden administration announced it would commit $150 million to UNRWA—the U.N. agency in charge of Palestinian refugees—that were suspended under the Trump administration, as well as provide funds to NGOs in the West Bank and Gaza.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
It is unclear why Hamas doesn't want humanitarian aid to reach its civilian population.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It appears that U.S. officials were concerned that the proposed statements on the situation did not adequately address Israeli concerns.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
An IMPACT-se report showed that PA school textbooks have “consistently shown a systematic insertion of violence, martyrdom and jihad across all grades and subjects.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It is critical that we stand together to demand systemic reform to educational materials ... before one more child is taught from textbooks riddled with hateful lessons,” states a letter to U.S. legislators.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The UNHRC is infamously biased against Israel, with nearly half of its resolutions focused solely on Israel while it ignores war, strife and atrocities committed around the globe.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Yoseph Haddad, an Israeli-Arab social activist, attacked the representatives who claimed Israel’s program was racist because it allegedly was meant for Jews only.
By Ariel Kahana
The campaign, spearheaded by UNICEF's Gaza and West Bank branch, is aimed at putting the IDF on the list of child rights abusers published annually by the U.N. Secretary General, says the watchdog group.
By Alan Zeitlin
UN Watch executive director spoke about anti-Semitism and COVID-19, the U.S. decision to rejoin the U.N. Human Rights Council and the treatment of the Uyghurs in China.
By Eliana Rudee
“The purpose is to fill that gap by providing the first-ever examination of claims made under Item 7, and to provide a detailed analysis, citing to sources of fact and international law,” said researcher and writer Dina Rovner.elianneliana
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A U.K.-based war monitor group reports that the alleged Israeli strikes targeted “several military positions,” and militias associated with Hezbollah and the Syrian Resistance for the Liberation of the Golan.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The IDF noted that throughout last year, the Hezbollah terror organization has “continually violated” UN Security Council Resolution 1701 and other international resolutions.
By Israel Hayom
The NGOs claim that that true figure is close to about 30,000.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The language condemns the Jewish state for “repressive measures” against Syrian citizens in the Golan Heights and renews the mandates of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency.
By Ariel Kahana
The Norwegian government says it has “neither the right nor the duty” to prohibit Egencia, a subsidiary of blacklisted company Expedia, from providing services inside Norway.
Israeli Ambassador to The Hague Naor Gilon welcomed the decision of the Dutch Senate.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Trump administration cut all U.S. funding to UNRWA in September 2018 due to criticism that the agency enables the Palestinian refugee issue and teaches anti-Israel material in its student textbooks.
“Instead of persuading the Palestinians to choose the path of negotiations and peace, these resolutions only encourage them to harden their positions,” says Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Gilad Erdan.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
“With China, Russia, Cuba and Venezuela as members, the Council makes a mockery of its intended purpose and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” US Ambassador to the UN Kelly Craft stated.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Gulf nation will work to ensure that its agreement with Israel “opens new intellectual horizons in the region,” says UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The president reiterated that the recent normalization and economic deals represent “the dawn of the new Middle East.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Organizers say it is an “in-depth course on legislative advocacy” in training activists to lobby Congress on BDS and other anti-Israel issues.
Hezbollah is unconcerned if its actions cause an out-of-control spiral.
Israel says Hezbollah was involved in the assassination and tampered with the investigation.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The UN blacklist only includes Jewish, and not Arab-owned, Israeli companies- clear discrimination and a violation of the UN charter.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We’ll be doing a snapback. You’ll be watching it next week,” says the U.S. president.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The status quo in Lebanon is unacceptable,” says U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Kelly Craft. “Now is the time to ... enable the [peacekeeping] mission to fully achieve what it was set out to accomplish.”
The UN vehicle was polluting near the Israeli community of Na’ale in the Benyamin region.
By Ariel Kahana
The plan calls for giving budgetary support to companies that engage in sustainability and other environmentally friendly activities.
Danny Danon began as Israel's ambassador to the UN in 2015.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel has unique knowledge and experience in the field of food and agriculture and is happy to share it with other countries and organizations.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The E.U. must “review and be willing to suspend or downgrade” trade and cooperation agreements with the Jewish state, says U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories.
The Lebanese Army is reportedly holding exercises with UNIFIL near Rosh Hanikra.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Palestinians will lose faith in a negotiated solution, I’m afraid Arabs too will lose interest in regional peace."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog called on Iran to “fully cooperate” with it in implementing its Weapons Safeguards Agreement and Additional Protocol and “satisfy the IAEA’s requests without further delay.”
By Eliana Rudee
“Funds are being used for activities that do not appear to involve vital, lifesaving resources and supplies to implement the most urgent and critical activities,” said Becca Wertman, managing editor at NGO Monitor.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“ ‘You can’t inspect, so why you are there?’ ” posed Danon. “ ‘You have to be more active, you have to move freely and inspect all sites.’ ”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The embargo expires on Oct. 18, along with U.N. travel restrictions on Iranians associated with arms proliferation—the latter of which the letter also calls to be extended.
By Aaron Bandler / Jewish Journal
We're Shocked! Once again weapons were found stored in an UNRWA school.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated after the report’s publication that “whoever boycotts us will be boycotted. "
The proposed PA resolution still attacks Israel and the US at the UN, but is less likely to trigger an automatic US veto.
By Ariel Kahana
US Ambassador to the UN Kelly Craft was supposed to arrive in Israel later this week, but will remain in New York to handle the peace plan fallout.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israeli Ambassador to UN in Farsi: We Support the Iranian People
By Israel Hayom
Chris Gunness, who left the U.N.'s Palestinian refugee agency earlier this year, spent Christmas Eve writing holiday-themed parodies mocking the Jewish state.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The liquid-fueled Shahab-3 can reportedly deliver a nuclear weapon and has been referred to by Iranian officials as one of the country’s “Israel-hitting” missiles.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
“Without remembrance, there cannot be truth; without truth, there cannot be justice; without justice, there cannot be reconciliation" . . . or peace."
August 7, 2026 
