United Nations
The Granddaddy of Dumb Ideas: Why admitting a Palestinian state to the United Nations would be a terrible move by Aaron David Mille, Slate, January 5, 2012
Ending UNRWA and Advancing Peace by Elliott Abrams, Council on Foreign Relations, December 19, 2011
Israel to seek closure of UN refugee aid agency by Shlomo Cesana, Israel Hayom, November 21, 2011
U.N. refugee relief agency UNRWA claims there are almost 5 million Palestinian refugees, while Israel says there are just 250,000 • Israeli officials say organization is an obstacle to peace • MK Einat Wilf: No other refugees in the world are afforded refugee status for generations.
Palestinian Statehood and International Law by Elizabeth Samson, inFocus Quarterly, Fall 2011
The UN’s Integral Role in Palestinian Rejectionism by Gerald Steinberg and Anne Herzberg, inFocus Quarterly, Fall 2011
Arab Spring Countries Pay the Price for the World’s Palestinian Obsession by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, September 26, 2011
UNRWA’s Anti-Israel Bias by Arlene Kushner, Middle East Quarterly, Summer 2011 [PDF]
Multilateral Cooperation Between The United States and Israel: Fighting Delegitimization, Moving Forward Together, Remarks by Esther Brimmer, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, U.S. Department of State, June 15, 2011
See also critique: The anti-Israel agenda prevails: Obama’s efforts to reform the UN Human Rights Council have failed miserably by Anne Bayefsky, Jerusalem Post, June 20, 2011
How to Block the Palestine Statehood Ploy by John Bolton, Wall Street Journal, June 3, 2011
Congress can take a cue from Jim Baker in 1989 and threaten to cut U.S. money for the U.N.
A UN Resolution to Recognize a Palestinian State within the “1967 Borders” Would Be Illegal, Letter to the UN Secretary General from lawyers of the Legal Forum for Israel and by Amb. Alan Baker, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, May 25, 2011
UNRWA workers “adamantly opposed” to Holocaust education that will “confuse the thinking” of children by Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch, April 27, 2011
Code Red: Syria Could Soon Join UN Human Rights Council by David Harris, Huffington Post, April 24, 2011
The Palestinians’ Mistake in Seeking Statehood from the UN by Aaron David Miller, Washington Post, April 14, 2011
In almost two decades of working on Arab-Israeli negotiations as a State Department adviser and negotiator, I’ve come up with more than my fair share of dumb ideas. But the notion Palestinians are cooking up, for U.N. action on Palestinian statehood this fall, takes dumb to a new level.
More Hypocrisy From the U.N., This Time About Terror and Syria by Anne Bayefsky, FoxNews.com, April 18, 2011
The UN Charter Cannot Support GA Resolution 377 by Eli. E. Hertz, Myths and Facts, March 28, 2011
Miral, Israel and AJC by David Harris, Huffington Post, March 17, 2011
The International Context of the U.S. Veto at the UN Security Council, an interview with Dore Gold by Michael Tuchfeld, translated from Makor Rishon (Hebrew), February 25, 2011
Amidst Mideast Turmoil, Only Israel Galvanizes the UN Into Action by David Harris, Huffington Post, February 21, 2011
The UN and the Obama Administration on the Wrong Side of History by Anne Bayefsky, Pajamas Media, February 18, 2011
The U.N. Gangs Up on Israel—Again by Alan M. Dershowitz, Wall Street Journal, January 26, 2011
The State of Human Rights at the United Nations, Testimony of Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, United States Congress, January 25, 2010 [video & transcript]
How much anti-Semitism is too much? by Anne Bayefsky, Jerusalem Post, January 15, 2011
Obama’s Moment of Truth at the UN by Steven J. Rosen, Commentary, January 6, 2011
The Palestinian Proletariat by Michael S. Bernstam, Commentary, December 2010
The chances of achieving peace and security in the Middle East will continue to be remote as long as UNRWA is, in effect, underwriting a self-destructive Palestinian cycle of violence, internecine warfare, and a perpetual war against Israel. [....] If the international community truly wishes to serve the needs of the Palestinians and improve their lot, its first task would be the abolition of UNRWA.
Can the United Nations create a Palestinian state? by Jackson Diehl, Washington Post, October 26, 2010
Believe It or Not: Israel is the 31st Highest Dues-Paying Country at the UN by David M. Weinberg, October 2, 2010
U.N. Rights Council Displeased by “10 Basic Facts,” UN Watch, September 28, 2010
Will Obama Use His UN Veto? by Steven J. Rosen, Commentary, September 2010
A Tale of Two Cities by Anne Bayefsky, Weekly Standard, April 13, 2010
The Right to Self-Defence: United Nations and the International Court of Justice Evading International Law by Eli E. Hertz, February 16, 2010 [pdf]
UNRWA: Perpetuating the Misery, HonestReporting.com, December 10, 2009
The UN Kicks Out a Leading Critic by Joseph Klein, FrontPageMagazine.com, November 25, 2009
The Goldstone Illusion: What the U.N. report gets wrong about Gaza–and war by Moshe Halbertal, The New Republic, November 6, 2009
The UN Gaza Report: A Substantive Critique, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs [pdf] [An expanded text of Ambassador Dore Gold's presentation during an exchange with Justice Richard Goldstone at Brandeis University on November 5, 2009]
- Video of the discussion (also on YouTube)
- Q&A Session
- Visual presentation by Amb. Gold
United Nations of Hypocrisy by Joseph J. Honick
UNRWA at 60: Are There Better Alternatives? by Nitza Nachmias, Middle East Forum, October 12, 2009
Statement by H.E. Aharon Leshno Yaar, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Israel to the UN in Geneva, 12th Regular Session, United Nations Human Rights Council, September 29, 2009
Statement by Anne Bayefsky on the Goldstone Report in Geneva, The Human Rights Council, September 29, 2009
At the UN, Terrorism Pays by Ehud Barak, Wall Street Journal, September 25, 2009
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Speech at the United Nations, September 24, 2009 |
UN report a victory for terror by Michael Oren, Boston Globe, September 24, 2009
Goldstone Report Is a Barrier to Peace by Alan Dershowitz, Hudson New York, September 22, 2009
UN Investigation of Israel Discredits Itself and Undercuts Human Rights, by Alan M. Dershowitz, Hudson New York, September 16, 2009
The Moral Inversion of Richard Goldstone by Melanie Phillips, Spectator [UK], September 16, 2009
UN Must Hold U.S. to Same Standard as Israel by Ari Shavit, Haaretz, September 16, 2009
At the UN’s new site, a a worldwide web of anti-Israel bias by Anne Bayefsky, New York Daily News, September 7, 2009
Different Rockets, Same U.N. by Robert Ivker, Palestinian Rocket Report, Jewish Policy Center, August 27, 2008
UN: Israel Must Tear Down West Bank Barrier by Eli E. Hertz, Myths and Facts, July 10, 2009 (Is the ICJ Guilty of Deliberate Fraud or Criminal Ignorance – or Both?)
Feeble UN Caves to Strongman’s Bile by Rosie Dimanno, Toronto Star, April 22, 2009
UNRWA Has Backed U.S. Foes for Years, Time to Cut Off Funds by Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, John A. Boeher, Eric Cantor, Mike Pence, and Thaddeus McCotter, Washington Times, March 26, 2009
Roundup: UNRWA’s Ties to Terrorism, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), January 22, 2009
Gaza Bedfellows UNRWA and Hamas by Claudia Rosett, Forbes, January 8, 2009
How the U.N. Perpetuates the ‘Refugee’ Problem by Natan Sharansky, Wall Street Journal, January 6, 2009
The UN’s obsession with demonizing Israel by Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe, November 30, 2008
The UN, Israel and racism: At risk of early derailment, The Economist, November 27, 2008
U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Unfairly Blames Israel, Gives Hamas A Pass, Anti-Defamation League, November 18, 2008
Defining Jew-Hatred Down: The curious response to Ahmadinejad at the U.N. by Matthias Küntzel, The Weekly Standard, Volume 14, Issue 9, November 17, 2008
Jew-Hatred Still Reigns Supreme at the U.N. by Asaf Ramirowsky, Jewish Exponent, October 30, 2008
Different Rockets, Same U.N. by Robert Ivker, Palestinian Rocket Report, August 27, 2008
Plans for Mideast Peace: U.N. reforms needed for Palestinian refugees by Peter Berkowitz, Washington Times, August 5, 2008
UN-speakable hypocrisy by Anne Bayefsky, New York Daily News, June 2, 2008
Defund UNRWA by Asaf Romirowsky, Washington Times, May 19, 2008
UNRWA: Barrier to Peace by Jonathan Spyer, The Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies, BESA Perspectives, May 27, 2008
UNRWA: Refuge Of Rejectionism by Barry Rubin, Asaf Romirowsky, and Jonathan Spyer, Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, May 8, 2008
Watching the Threats Grow?, The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, JINSA Report #767, April 29, 2008
Redefining Anti-Semitism by Anne Bayefsky, National Review Online, April 23, 2008: At Durban II, only anti-Muslim racism counts
UN expert? No, a conspiracy crank by David Aaronovitch, The Times [U.K.], April 15, 2008
Rights Council hears from Jewish refugee by Paul Lungen, Canadian Jewish News, March 27, 2008
How UNRWA creates dependency by Asaf Romirowsky and Jonathan Spyer, Washington Times, December 3, 2007
“It is a disgrace to the founding principles and mission of the United Nations that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be allowed to speak before the body next week during the gathering of its General Assembly.”
“Today, as UNRWA provides assistance in Gaza, it is directly providing financial and material support to the Hamas terrorist organization. [....] UNRWA institutions have not just produced terrorist ideologues. They have also produced terrorist masterminds.”
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The Speech Rejected as “Inadmissible” by the U.N. Human Rights Council, delivered by Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch, March 23, 2007 |
Sanctioning Human Wrongs by Anne Bayefsky, National Review, September 7, 2007
The Israel-Bashing Club by Daniel Schwammenthal, The Wall Street Journal, September 3, 2007
Your U.N. at Work III, The Wall Street Journal, August 31, 2007
Israel, MEPs protest meeting on rights of Palestinians over organizers’ records, International Herald Tribune, August 29, 2007
Challenging the UN’s darker side by Hillel C. Neuer, The Boston Globe, August 25, 2007
Iran on anti-racism committee by Yaakov Lappin, Ynetnews.com, August 23, 2007: Islamic Republic selected by UN for ‘leading position’ to plan anti-racism conference
Stop Durban II, The Jerusalem Post, August 22, 2007
The UN-NGO Connection: Spreading the Message of Hate and Terrorism, Eye on the UN, June 12, 2006
How To Really Help Palestinian Refugees, by David Bedein, The Jewish Week [New York], November 11, 2005
The UN’s Palestinian Refugee Problem by Arlene Kushner, Azure, Autumn 2005 [pdf]
UNRWA: A Hard Look at an Agency in Trouble by Arlene Kushner, The Center for Near East Policy Research, September 2005 [pdf]
UNRWA: Links to Terrorism by Arlene Kushner, The Center for Near East Policy Research, October 2004 [pdf]
