Tag: United Nations
Spurring international action to remember the ‘forgotten’ Mideast Jewish refugees
Former Miss Iraq Sarah Idan spoke at the United Nations headquarters on Wednesday about Jewish refugees from the Middle East being largely forgotten, and that there needs to be more awareness of their plight.
“It’s about time....
In a surprise move, 13 countries vote against anti-Israel resolution at the UN
Thirteen countries changed their voting pattern at the United Nations on Tuesday, voting against an annual resolution that supports a pro-Palestinian U.N. agency.
Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Lithuania, Netherlands, Romania,...
Israel to introduce resolution in UN calling for recognition of Mideast Jewish refugees
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon announced on Tuesday that Israel will submit a resolution to the General Assembly to formally recognize Jewish refugees, or Mizrachi Jews, from Arab countries and Iran.
Danon...
Danon: European ‘automatic support’ for Palestinians is ‘a propaganda campaign’
The U.N. Security Council convened on Wednesday in the aftermath of the U.S. State Department’s policy change on Tuesday regarding the legal status of the Jewish communities in the West Bank.
“All settlements are illegal...
Israel, US to push for tighter UN scrutiny of Palestinian refugee agency
The United States and Israel are joining forces to push for reform in the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), according to Israel’s mission to the United...
After outcry, UN reschedules ‘decolonization committee’ meeting that fell on Yom Kippur
The U.N. Secretariat, one of the main organs of the United Nations, has rescheduled a meeting conflicting with Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, on Oct. 9.
A meeting set by the Special Political...
UNRWA must evolve or dissolve, says senior agency official at end of General Assembly
“Direct pressure” by donors is the most likely way to induce the United Nations Relief and Works Agency to change, former UNRWA general counsel James Lindsay told JNS as the 74th session of the...
How Israel achieved the impossible at the UN
For years, we in Israel thought that the hostile reality at the United Nations was something unalterable. We became impervious to automatic condemnations and stopped getting upset when Palestinian incitement was met with open...
Trump at UN: US sanctions on Iran ‘will be tightened’
In his speech at the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump called on the international community to take action against the threat from Iran, which he said...
Authoritarian countries take the stand against Israel at UN
As Western democracies left the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) plenary in Geneva on Sept. 23, boycotting the presentation of Agenda Item 7, the notorious agenda item in which Israel is singled out at...