November 24, 2024

Israel is right: UNRWA is a rogue agency

UNRWA officials at the site of an Israeli airstrike in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, July 15, 2024. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90. by Henry Kopel (JNS) — Once again, the so-called human-rights community is in high-outrage […]
November 20, 2024

U.S. vetoes UNSC ceasefire resolution that doesn’t require release of hostages

Robert Wood, deputy permanent U.S. representative to the United Nations, votes against a U.N. Security Council resolution on the Middle East, Nov. 20, 2024. Credit: Loey Felipe/U.N. Photo. by Mike Wagenheim (JNS) — The United States vetoed a U.N. Nations […]
November 20, 2024

Stefanik vows to fight Jew-hatred at United Nations

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) speaks at an Endowment for Middle East Truth event in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 19, 2024. Credit: EMET. by Andrew Bernard (JNS) — Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) vowed to fight Jew-hatred at the United Nations in […]
November 1, 2024

UN’s Albanese report slammed as ‘gross perversion of history,’ ‘weaponizing Holocaust comparisons’

Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur for Palestinian rights, briefs reporters at U.N. Headquarters, Oct. 30, 2024. Credit: Mark Garten/U.N. Photo. by Mike Wagenheim (JNS) — Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur for Palestinian rights, presented a new report to […]
October 31, 2024

UN chief charges Israel would ethnically cleanse Gaza if Arab states accepted refugees

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres speaks during a press conference at the COP16 summit in Cali, Colombia, Oct. 30, 2024. Photo by Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP via Getty Images. (JNS) — United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Oct. 30 accused Israel of seeking […]
October 30, 2024

Disdain for terror-enabling UNRWA is a unifying force across Israel’s political spectrum

Israelis protest against the U.N. Relief and Works Agency outside one of its offices in Jerusalem, March 20, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90. by Douglas Altabef (JNS) — It is not the norm in Israel today to have a broad-based, […]
October 30, 2024

Israeli UN envoy: UNRWA ‘payroll resembles a most-wanted list’

Danny Danon, Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, addresses the U.N. Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East on Oct. 29, 2024. Credit: Evan Schneider/U.N. Photo. by Mike Wagenheim (JNS) — Israel’s envoy to the United Nations […]
October 29, 2024

Sen. Cotton blasts Biden administration support for UNRWA, calls for “terrorism sanctions”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.). Credit: Haim Zach/GPO. (JNS) — U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) last week called on the Biden administration to cut all funds to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, long […]
October 29, 2024

Knesset bans UNRWA, outlaws all official contact

Palestinian supporters of Hamas protest against the U.S. Middle East peace plan front of the main headquarters the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza City on February 20, 2020. Photo by Ali Ahmed/ Flash90. by Canaan Lidor, […]
October 2, 2024

Israel declares UN Secretary-General Guterres as persona non grata

Danny Danon, Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, briefs reporters ahead of the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East on Oct. 2, 2024. Credit: Mark Garten/U.N. Photo. by Mike Wagenheim (JNS) — Israeli Foreign Minister Israel […]
September 30, 2024

Hamas leader killed in Lebanon was on UN payroll as head of UNRWA teachers union

Former Hamas leader in Lebanon Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin (circled) at an undated UNRWA event. Source: UN Watch. (JNS) — The Hamas leader killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon on Sept. 30 was an employee of UNRWA, the terror-linked […]