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By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
While it was a positive change, the anti-Israel resolution still passed with 87 votes in favor, 54 against, and 23 abstentions.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The report documents several incidents in which Hezbollah clashed with UNIFIL troops and restricted their movement in southern Lebanon.
There is widespread support for the bill within the Knesset.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Ambassador Danon called for the shuttering of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) after the body publicized the preliminary findings of its probe into broad corruption among its leadership.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Several countries suspended their aid to UNRWA following the publication of allegations against the corrupt organization.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Danny Danon criticized the UNSC for focusing on Israel while Turkey was attacking the Kurdish people and hosting the Hamas terror organization in Turkey's capital.
The prime minister also commented Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s remarks at the United Nations General Assembly.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The report recommends that all UN member states adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of anti-Semitism. So far, 18 of them have done so.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Agenda Item 7 requires the body to discuss alleged Israeli human rights violations at every UNHRC session and it is utilized to condemn the Jewish state regularly.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
As the U.N. Security Council prepares to formally review the size of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon and vote on its renewal, America and Israel are pressing for more authority to counter Hezbollah.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The European Union has passed a law that prohibits the use of its funds to fund the promotion of hate in the PA curriculum. The United Kingdom is deliberating a similar bill.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Craft is replacing Nikki Haley, a staunch supporter of Israel at the UN who left her post and the end of last year.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Danon: "UNRWA has in recent years worked to redirect world funds to continue this corruption industry that has served its leadership."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel’s precise place in the 2019 top 10 list has yet to be disclosed — the final results are slated to be unveiled on July 24 at a special event the WIPO will be hosting in New Delhi.
Hamas and UNRWA coordinate their activities. Hamas notifies UNRWA of its actions and tells them when to stay away so they can later claim innocence.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“This is a good sign ... India was the first country to support us among the Asia group, so we are very happy."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Jan Kubis, the UN’s Special Coordinator for Lebanon, said Monday that he met with Hezbollah Deputy Secretary-General Naim Qassem and even got a copy of his book.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Let’s stop pretending that settlements are what is keeping the sides from a negotiated peaceful solution,” said U.S. special envoy for Mideast peace negotiations Jason Greenblatt. “This farce and obsessive focus on one aspect of this complicated conflict helps no one.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The United Kingdom, Denmark and Australia opposed every resolution
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
All the way from Oregon, Joe Truzman disproved major points in the recently released U.N. Human Rights Council report—namely, that many of the report’s “victims” shot by soldiers of the Israeli Defense Force were actually members of terrorist groups, including Hamas.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Following the testimony, hundreds gathered for the historic “Rally for Equal Rights” to protest UNHRC’s unprecedented assault on Israel, in which the council targeted the Jewish state in seven biased reports.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
“The State of Israel will not ignore the conversion of Syria and Lebanon into a military front against it and will act forcefully and aggressively against Tehran’s aggression.”
The Palestinian Authority leadership leadership failed to condemn Ansbacher’s murder -- but they did criticize the Israeli forces for entering the nearby mosque during the search for the terrorist.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“. . .material purchased using U.S. tax dollars to counter the anti-Semitic and anti-Israel bias injected by the PA is being rejected and not utilized on the ground."
By Josh Hasten
Experts and former Israeli politicians who contend that the U.N. agency is perpetuating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by encouraging incitement are urging the Israeli government to revoke permits for schools in Jerusalem under UNRWA’s auspicious.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In Israel, they will have an extensive tour of the nation to learn about the land, Jewish history and Zionism.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The PA attempted to upgrade its status at the UN from an observer state to a voting state with full membership.
Nauert is expected to face a tough Senate confirmation.
UNESCO's anti-Semitism and attempt to erase Jewish history continues.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We are putting an end to the lie of the ‘Palestinian refugee problem’ and the attempts at creating a false sovereignty within a sovereignty,” says Mayor Nir Barkat.
Audacious, goal-oriented speech is arguably Netanyahu’s best ever.
By JNi.Media
Speaking to CBS Face the Nation Saturday night, FM Zarif responded to the Israeli PM's allegations, saying, "Well, he's been making allegations about Iran since 1992."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the UN General Assembly, on Thursday, 27 September 27, 2018.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Several hours after raising eyebrows with a statement revealing his preference for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, U.S. President Donald Trump expounded on his opinion, stating that while he prefers a two-state solution, any solution would be acceptable as long as it brings peace to the region.
Instead, Israel plans to continue to fight the open antisemitism at UNESCO.
Netanyahu thanked Trump for the extraordinary support that he has shown for Israel in the U.N.
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon sat down with The Jewish Press to share his thoughts on Trump's speech at the UN General Assembly.
By JNi.Media
The World Bank press release does not mention Hamas, possibly because the authors take it for granted that Hamas is the chief culprit in the demise of Gaza's economy, so there's no need to mention it.
'The State Department's response is alarming because allowing Mahmoud Abbas into the U.S. is in direct violation of the letter and spirit of U.S. law.'
By JNi.Media
The American delegation was given three hours to present its initial response on Tuesday, which it did.
By JNi.Media
The news report comes just hours after a State Department official said the United States would redirect more than $200 million earmarked for economic aid to the PA and Gaza to projects elsewhere.
By JNi.Media
Only two weeks ago, the IDF attacked and destroyed a squad of seven ISIS soldiers who crossed into the Golan Heights from Syria.
By JNi.Media
The Struggle Headquarters propaganda maliciously misrepresents the law, using a false comparison between two Border Guard officers, one a Jew, the other a Druze.
By JNi.Media
Why haven't the PLO and Hamas permitted these three million or so people to turn their tent and shack cities into actual cities? Because if they do, it would mean they have given up the hope of returning to Israel.
By JNi.Media
Iran claims the US' decision violated the Treaty of Amity, Economic Relations, and Consular Relations, signed by the US and Iran in 1955, decades before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
By JNi.Media
In 2013, Prof. Shany evaluated the Israeli judicial system on YouTube – we believe his views foretell a worse scrutiny of Israel by the UNHRC in the next 18 months.
Save a Child’s Heart has treated 5000 children from 57 countries since being founded in the mid-1990s, including 2000 patients from the Gaza Strip and Judea and Samaria.
By JNi.Media
Since receiving the title, every year the city of Tel Aviv celebrates the proclamation with a series of White Night events that connect to Tel Avciv's DNA of a Nonstop City.
Carmel Shama-HaCohen: “We must not ignore the new spirit that is blowing from UNESCO."
An art exhibition featuring the paintings of Israeli children and adults with disabilities opened at the South Wall of United Nations Headquarters in New York.
By JNi.Media
The report pins on Israel the full responsibility for the dying Gaza infants crisis, because it has imposed a strict blockade on the Hamas ruled Gaza Strip.
By JNi.Media
It should be noted that resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly have no binding power.
Over 500 people, diplomats and Jewish community leaders from across North America, came together Wednesday evening to celebrate 70 years of Israeli innovation at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
By JNi.Media
There must be some twisted UN logic to appointing the country with the most recent experience in using chemical weapons on civilians to the forum that tries to ban their use in the first place.
The lawsuit will be the first civilian response to incendiary kite terrorism.
Belgium, Spain, and Slovenia joined 29 other countries to back the establishment of the commission of inquiry into “all alleged violations and abuses.”
The United Nations is expected to approve a series of projects worth $600 million in the Gaza Strip over the next five months.
By JNi.Media
The last time an international UN force was posted between Israel and the Gaza Strip was in May of 1967, and it packed up and left as soon as Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser ordered it to scram.
By JNi.Media
What Turkey has apparently done was sidestep that whole part regarding receiving UNSC approval, and just sold Iran the banned technology -- which was made in Israel.
The latest absurdity coming out of the UN.
The UN hopes Israel will reconsider.
Government ministers are unhappy with the plan -- many because they were kept in the dark about it.
By JNi.Media
France may be next to recognize a Palestinian State following a meeting of Presidents Macron and Trump on April 22.
By JNi.Media
Prime Minister Netanyahu was more amused than angry in his response tweet: "The time has come to change its name to the Council for Decisions against the Only Democracy in the Middle East."
By JNi.Media
Rather than to reprimand UNRWA for its abysmal record, which actually invents new refugees every year, the aim of the Rome conference is to solve its funding crisis of $446 million.
Lebanon and Hezbollah don't want to be blocked by an Israeli security wall, and claim land south of the Blue Line is Lebanese territory.
By JNi.Media
Even the “State of Palestine” had ten recommendations for Israel, to which Israel responded by suggesting to entity by that name does not “satisfy the criteria for statehood under international law.”
“We did not want to set a precedent in which the Palestinians had observer status in an organization [that addresses sensitive intelligence issues] like this."
Numbers don't lie, even if UNRWA does. UNRWA is a complete failure when it comes to refugees.
By JNi.Media
According to a classified State Dept. report, the actual number of authentic refugees hovers around 20,000.
By JNi.Media
The oil-rich Arab countries of the Middle East have other priorities, or they would have offered to fill UNRWA's budget gap.
By JNi.Media
UNRWA's labor union rejected the agency's diminishing its role "in preserving the identity of the Palestinian refugee and his right to return to his homeland."
By JNi.Media
PM Netanyahu recognized the potential of flipping more needy, third-world countries to the side of the angels by helping them financially.
By JNi.Media
It appears that Israel will not be able to walk out in a huff and slam the door on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, despite reports earlier this week that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed Israel's ambassador to UNESCO, Carmel Shama Hacohen, to submit the Jewish State's resignation, Ma'ariv reported Thursday. Netanyahu […]
By JNi.Media
The US is the largest financial contributor to the United Nations, providing 22% of the entire UN budget in 2017.
By JNi.Media
Both of the US north American neighbors, Canada and Mexico, abstained, so they get to come party.
But some Diaspora Jewish groups, particularly in North America, say ... they have no intention of lobbying on behalf of the Netanyahu government.
By JNi.Media
The vote on the Jerusalem declaration, which is bound to be vetoed by the US, is set for early this week – barring unexpected changes.
Rather ironic that they're now hitting their own schools too.
By JNi.Media
Kushner could become the first US citizen to have been charged with violating the 1799 Logan Act, and if he did this on behalf of his father-in-law then the Trump presidency is in very deep trouble.
By JNi.Media
"The Security Council must not turn a blind eye to the growing Iranian influence in Lebanon and the extensive military build-up of Hezbollah forces in southern Lebanon, as they pose a threat to the stability of the country."
By JNi.Media
"This obsession with Israel will have a price tag, with the organization and the member states will have to devote dozens of hours, add days of debates, and sit through long discussions."
Hamas wants the Red Cross to demand that Israel give permission, allowing a Hamas search and rescue unit entry into Israel.
Lynk was challenged repeatedly by journalists in the wake of a UN Watch letter, released ahead of his press conference.
By JNi.Media
On Tuesday, Israel joined the international community in marking United Nations Day, which was devoted to 'making known to the people of the world the aims and achievements of the UN and to gaining their support for its work.'
By JNi.Media
Senator Cruz's resolution proposes that the Senate condemns any past, present, or future efforts at UNESCO to delegitimize Israel through attempts to rewrite and deny the history of Jerusalem.
Bezeq CEO Stella Handler publicized the UNHRC's blacklist letter and posted her powerful response on Facebook.
By JNi.Media
After the vote, Azoulay said, "if my nomination is confirmed, my first action would be to restore the agency's credibility and the confidence of member states in its ability to confront the challenges that only UNESCO can face."
By JNi.Media
"You kidnap Palestinian students from campus and torture them in your jails. You torture your political rivals."
"We did not gather the Jews from all four corners of the earth in order to turn them into a nuclear target."
By JNi.Media
The Israeli initiative to change the Palestinians' 70-year-old refugee status takes advantage of a window of opportunity created by the current administration rigid and often hostile approach to the UN and its agencies.
The family was not interested in a rushed, last minute meeting with the US Secretary-General.
By JNi.Media
Water-Gen is a technology that provides an inexpensive, available and renewable source of clean fresh drinking water by directly extracting it from the atmosphere.
Netanyahu told Guterres that the UN should respect the building codes and the law in Israel.
By JNi.Media
Guterres told Netanyahu, "As secretary-general of the United Nations, I am totally committed to be [...] adamant" about Israel's right to exist."
Netanyahu: Iran is building sites to produce precision-guided missiles in both Syria and in Lebanon.
The visit takes place against a background of growing criticism of the United Nations’ performance in the Middle East, particularly along Israel’s northern border with Lebanon.
All the terror groups denied any connection to the tunnels, and UNRWA said there were no entrances into the schools.
Diplomatic sources said there was significant Arab pressure on African states not to strengthen ties with Israel.
By JNi.Media
The thing is, very little has been said in several months about this issue, since Israel's UN envoy Danny Danon suggested last April that US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley is likely to support Israel's becoming one of the five members to join the Security Council in 2019.
August 7, 2026 
