Tag: United Nations
Mother of captured Israeli soldier to address UN Human Rights Council
Leah Goldin, mother of captured Israel Defense Forces’ soldier Hadar Goldin, is scheduled to address the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva later this week, where she will call on the international community to...
Dershowitz: Obama broke promises made on Israel
Professor emeritus of Harvard University Law School and noted Israel advocate Alan Dershowitz claimed last week that former president Barack Obama lied to him about supporting Israel and is now reconsidering his Democrat Party affiliation,...
Danon demands UN recognize Syria’s culpability for Iranian actions on its soil
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon on Wednesday submitted a written complaint to the U.N. Security Council against Iran’s ongoing activities on Syrian soil for the purpose of perpetrating terrorist attacks against...
UN agency recognizes Israeli organization for first time
The U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has granted ELEM/Youth in Distress in Israel special consultative status on the matter of vulnerable young people, making it the first Israeli organization dealing with at-risk youth that...
Netanyahu extends term of Israeli UN ambassador Danon to end of 2019
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to extend the term of Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon until the end of the year, Israeli media sources reported on Tuesday. Danon has...
In first-ever review, UN racism panel presses Palestinians on fomenting anti-Semitism
The United Nations’s anti-racism committee began a mandatory two-day review on Tuesday of the policies and practices of the Palestinian Authority, whose delegation responded by criticizing experts of the 18-member panel for asking about...
Danon urges action by UN Security Council after terror groups kill Israeli student
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon urged the world body to condemn the murder of an Israeli teen in an apparent terrorist attack in the West Bank on Thursday.
In a letter addressed...
Kelly Craft confirmed as Haley’s replacement as UN ambassador
U.S. Ambassador to Canada Kelly Craft was confirmed on Wednesday by the U.S. Senate as the next U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
The final tally was 56-34.
Craft, 57, will replace Nikki Haley, who was...
Greenblatt: Palestinian aspirations for Jerusalem don’t constitute ‘a right’
The Palestinian aspiration to a have a capital in Jerusalem is “not a right,” and “international consensus is not international law” when it comes to creating a Palestinian state, said U.S. Middle East envoy...
UN ambassador Danon: ‘The Port of Beirut has become the Port of Hezbollah’
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon presented new evidence to the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday showing how Iran is using civilian transport routes to arm the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah.
Speaking at...