Israel should say goodbye to the rotten and racist United Nations.
The United Nations is a racist and corrupt institution that is beyond reform. Israel should ask itself if it wants to remain part of it. Probably not.
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“If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.” — Abba Eban, Israeli Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1949 to 1959
It might sound extreme, but the case for quitting is growing.
The world has always hated Jews, and now that the Jews have their country back, the world’s representative body is attacking it relentlessly.
Remaining in the United Nations is like hanging out behind the school shelter shed with all the bullies who are never going to graduate.
Israel should accept no more bullying from the UN. It should ban UN staff and operations in its territory immediately and consider quitting the corrupt antisemitic body for good.
The latest outrage — yet another blood libel — is the UN’s inclusion of Israel on a list of states it alleges to be the worst violators of children’s human rights in armed conflicts.
The UN based this on demonstrably inflated and deceitful statistics, the use of which characterizes the UN’s approach to the Jewish state. The UN is so morally lost that it does not condemn the abduction of Israeli civilians as hostages, but gets outraged by the rescuing of them.
The UN is so anti-Israel and antisemitic that it is almost satirical. The United Nation Relief and Works Agency’s (UNRWA) headquarters in Gaza was built atop of and connected to a Hamas intelligence and communications hub; at least 12 UNRWA staff were directly involved in the October 7th pogrom, the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust; and about 10 percent of UNRWA staff have known ties to Hamas, with many employees glorifying the October 7th pogrom.
Spoiler: UNRWA is a terrorist organization.
What’s more, UN Women had to be shamed into condemning Hamas’ systematic raping, torture, and murder of Israeli women and girls.
And the UN has continually passed resolutions that fail to condemn Hamas and pressured Israel for a ceasefire that would keep the terrorist group in power in Gaza.
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), one of the world’s most disreputable bodies, has passed more resolutions condemning Israel than against Iran, Syria, North Korea, China, Cuba, and Venezuela combined. The council’s members comprise the world’s worst rights abusers such as China, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Cuba.
Israel is the only country that the UNHRC has a standing agenda item against in each session. Item 7, titled “Human Rights Situation in Palestine and Other Occupied Arab Territories,” is also the only item that singles out a specific country, guaranteeing Israel gets condemned in every session.
The UN stinks from the head. Under Secretary-General Antonio Guterres the UN “has become an antisemitic and anti-Israeli body that shelters and emboldens terror,” Israeli foreign minister Israel Katz said.
Guterres, a moral pauper, said: “It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.”
This is a lie. There have been no Israelis in Gaza since 2005. His suggestion that there is some way a pogrom could be justified shows his moral retardation.
Israel’s foreign ministry also said that Guterres has shown “little resolve” to tackle rampant antisemitism within the UN. This is clear. Guterres is not alone. The UN has a clone army of antisemites.
Consider the vile Francesca Albanese, who has the energy of someone possessed by a dybbuk. She is the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, a title that is as biased and anti-Israel as her, since it presumes that disputed land is occupied. Her worldview, if one could call it that, is mired in deranged antisemitic conspiracy theories and tropes.
She has written that “America is subjugated by the Jewish Lobby” and regularly portrays Israelis as Nazis. In 2022, she told a Hamas conference that, “You have a right to resist,” and she has denied that the fact that Hamas’ October 7th attack was the worst attack on Jews since the Second World War.
France and Germany rightly called out her undisguised Jew-hatred. They should also have asked why a UN representative was addressing a Jihadist conference.
Then there is the stink of corruption. UN Watch, a Geneva-based watchdog, recently lodged a legal complaint with the UN alleging that Albanese had engaged in serious financial misconduct and ethical abuses. The complaint alleges that Albanese illegally requested payments for work done in her official capacity and had payment for them directed to her research assistant, Sara Troian, to circumvent regulations.1
“Francesca Albanese’s unethical financial practices are a gross violation of UN rules. The United Nations should take immediate action to investigate these allegations and hold her accountable,” said Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch. He also called on the UN to disclose all Albanese’s expenses and honoraria.
The complaint also alleges Albanese co-founded and runs the “Global Network on the Question of Palestine,” an anti-Israel influence network that includes officials from the murderous Palestinian Liberation Organization and UNRWA. She runs it under the auspices of the laughably named Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development in Amman, an organization she joined in November 2018 as a senior advisor.
This is appalling, but not surprising. The UN has form. It 1975 it voted that “Zionism was racist.” In other words, it supported the extraordinary notion that Jews living in their ancestral home was tantamount to racism. It twice elected Nazi Kurt Waldheim as its leader.
UN peacekeeping efforts in the Middle East reflect the UN's incompetence and its disinterest in keeping Israel — the world’s only Jewish state and the Middle East’s only democracy — safe. In the last week alone, Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon has fired thousands of missiles at Israel’s north under the direct watch of UN peacekeepers who are stationed there doing nothing. UN peacekeepers have failed Israel every time they have been deployed since the Second Arab-Israeli War in 1956.
Israel exists for Jews to govern themselves and be safe from exactly the kind of persecution in which the UN is engaging. How does it make sense for Israel to cooperate with or legitimize a body that is corrupt, biased, racist, and actively engaging in terror against the Jewish state? That is madness.
Antisemitism surges when Jews are prominent and perceived as weak. Jews will always be prominent, but never again weak. The time might be coming for Israel to demonstrate that to the UN. Israel should begin by declaring UNRWA a terror organization, because it is one. It should shutter its operations in Israel and cease all cooperation with it.
Israel should slow or reject UN staff visa renewals and boycott UN officials. UN missions, including UNICEF, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process should be put on notice for imminent termination and expulsion.
The UN does not need to be in Israel to make things up about it. Israel should tell the UN to find its own way into Gaza. That should be easy given the UN’s extensive connections to Hamas and the knowledge it claims to have of what is going on there.
It is time for Israel to put some pressure back on the UN and shown them that antisemitism carries a steep price. The UN and so-called “international community” will squeal that these agencies provide essential services to Palestinians. But after the October 7th pogrom, booby trapped terror tunnels, lying to the world, and indoctrinating Palestinian children in Jihadist Jew-hatred, I would say Israel has had quite enough of the UN’s essential services.
Israel should also demand the UN explain what Israel gets out of being a member. The organization does nothing of value, so it is far from obvious. Why should Israel subject itself to the moral judgments of a “UN Security Council” that has thuggish kleptocratic warmongering Russia and authoritarian China as permanent members, and which rabid antisemites run?
Israel will spend about $11 million on the UN this year, although it has cut this by $2 million in response to the UN’s anti-Israel bias. Israel should not spend a shekel on membership of a loathsome organization that funds terrorism against it. That money would be better spent on a Tel Aviv beach party to celebrate Israel leaving the UN.
The UN’s failure to solve any of the era’s many growing conflicts shows it has passed its use-by date. The stench of decay is unmistakable. Israel might as well get first-mover advantage.
Some might fear that Israel quitting the UN would make it look like the villain, recalling the fascists states of Japan, Germany, Italy, and Spain pulling out of the League of Nations, helping to bring about its collapse.
Beyond the League of Nations and the UN being equally ineffective, however, the situations have nothing in common. Besides, nobody cares about history anymore, as widespread belief in the entirely fictitious Palestinian narrative shows.
Most of all, who cares what the UN thinks? I certainly do not. No one else should, either.
“Exposed: Francesca Albanese’s Global Influence Network Targeting Israel.” UN Watch.
The UN has been infiltrated by Nazi-sympathisers for years. My own work has been pilfered from my hard drive and passed to The South Africa Delegation. We think this Nazi-sympathising network has been involved in the fictitious claim of genocide (and subsequent smear campaign) against Israel and The IDF using the International Criminal Court, which is South Africa being operated as a tool of very highly placed Anti-Semites and Nazis here in Europe. The UN does good work in the area of Famine Relief however. Therefore, we need to fight back and reclaim the UN as an institution from The Nazi Party, and Countries like South Africa who allow themselves to be tools in the hands of International Nazis and the Re-Formed Nazi Party here in Europe. These networks installed The Nazi and Austrian Diplomat Kurt Waldheim as the head of the UN, so it is pretty obvious who was operating behind the scenes in the 1970's.
Get out of the UN
I wished Canada would follow but our weak and Muslim lover prime minister Trudeau will never say a word!!
His days are numbered!
Canadians want him out!! 🇮🇱❤️