Tag: United Nations
Israeli and Palestinian leaders head to US for UN General Assembly, meetings with world...
During the weeklong Sukkot holiday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaves Israel on Tuesday to address the United Nations General Assembly in New York and meet world leaders including U.S. President Donald Trump.
Netanyahu arrives in...
Report: Trump to introduce Mideast peace plan at UN General Assembly
U.S. President Donald Trump plans to introduce his Middle East peace plan, dubbed the “deal of the century,” during the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York next month, the Palestinian daily Al-Quds reported on Monday.
The...
UN exhibit in New York shows fire damage in Israel from incendiary kites and...
An exhibition featured at the U.N. headquarters in New York this week will show viewers the damage that Gazan terror kites and flammable balloons have caused inside Israel.
An initiative of Yesh Atid Party Knesset...
Major Jewish group expresses concern over Palestinians leading UN’s G77 bloc
The Conference of Presidents, an umbrella group representing 51 national Jewish organizations, expressed deep concern over the announcement that the Palestinians will now head the United Nation’s powerful G77 bloc next year.
“It is completely...
One Year Later: The Answer to ‘Where are your Jews?’
Testimony by UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer, delivered before the UN Human Rights Council, July 3, 2018:
Mr. President, one year ago in this chamber I asked the Arab states a simple question: 'Where...
UN General Assembly condemns terrorists’ use of citizens as ‘human shields’
The U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday voted to condemn the use of civilians as human shields by terror groups as part of its update of its counter-terrorism strategy.
The resolution was specifically aimed as Hamas,...
Britain: UN Human Rights Council must end its anti-Israel bias
The United Kingdom called on the U.N. Human Rights Council to ends its long-standing bias against Israel and drop the controversial agenda item singling out the Jewish state.
“We share the view that the dedicated...
At UN, Haley and Danon defend US embassy move, blaming violence at Gaza border...
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikky Haley forcefully defend Israel’s reaction to the protests along the border with the Gaza Strip on Monday that resulted in as many as 60 Palestinian deaths.
“I ask...
In ironic twist, Syria to head UN panel on chemical disarmament
Despite allegations that it carried out yet another deadly chemical-weapons attack last Saturday, Syria will next month chair the United Nations disarmament forum that produced the treaty banning chemical weapons.
Syria will assume the presidency of the...
Israeli illustrator to kids at U.N. Holocaust event: ‘Take to heart the effects of...
More than 500 students and Jewish communal leaders attended Michel Kichka’s presentation discussing his personal story as the son of a Holocaust survivor.
As Israel and the world commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day, often overlooked is...