Israel’s UN ambassador says UN’s ‘days are numbered’
May 2, 2024 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
Israel’s envoy to the United Nations sharply criticized the global body on Wednesday, telling the U.N. General Assembly that the organization’s “days are numbered.” Read more
China, Russia veto US ceasefire resolution at the UN Security Council
March 24, 2024 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
China and Russia vetoed a U.S.-drafted resolution at the U.N. Security Council on Friday morning, saying the text didn’t go far enough in calling for a ceasefire in the war against Hamas in Gaza. Read more
Full Monday planned at UN with focus on US vetoes of ceasefire, UNRWA
March 3, 2024 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
The hyperfocus of the United Nations on the Israel-Hamas war will be on full display on Monday. Read more
Under scrutiny for Jew-hatred, Harvard hosts UN official who blames Jews for Oct. 7
February 14, 2024 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
Anti-Israel vultures of a feather flock together. Read more
‘Farce, desperate scheme to save UNRWA,’ critics slam UN review of its agency’s neutrality
February 7, 2024 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
Following allegations that a dozen employees of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East participated directly in Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, the United States and other nations announced their suspension of future funds, pending an investigation. Read more
UN official, accused of silence on Oct. 7, to visit Israel to learn of Hamas sexual violence
January 28, 2024 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
Pramila Patten, special representative of the U.N. secretary-general on sexual violence in conflict, plans to arrive in Israel on Monday, the United Nations announced on Thursday. Read more
UN head: Netanyahu won’t answer my phone calls
January 19, 2024 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
António Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations, told Al Jazeera on Wednesday from Davos, Switzerland, that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declined to take his phone calls since Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on Oct. 7. Read more
UN: No indication Hamas was building elaborate tunnel system
January 18, 2024 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
Despite the presence of a Hamas terror tunnel system in the Gaza Strip, now thought to be larger in scale than the London Underground, the United Nations insists it had no idea the tunnels were being built. Read more
Israeli UN envoy: ‘How morally bankrupt has this body become?’
January 11, 2024 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, ripped into the U.N. General Assembly during a Tuesday morning meeting while holding up a cake with the face of Kfir Bibas, who will turn one year old in the coming days. Read more
Israel’s UN envoy links Iran to Houthi attacks in Red Sea
January 5, 2024 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
Imploring the United Nations Security Council to address the “radioactive Shi’ite elephant in the room,” Israel’s U.N. ambassador on Wednesday linked Iran to the conflicts throughout the region. Read more
Israeli hi-tech may hold key to draining Hamas’s finances
December 26, 2023 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
An investigative report published earlier this month purports to show that senior Israeli and American officials had in hand financial intelligence showing the flow of tens of millions of dollars to Hamas and failed to act on it. Read more
Oct 7: Not an international crime to kill soldiers, says UN’s Francesca Albanese
December 24, 2023 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur for Palestinian rights, has courted controversy among Israel supporters for her one-sided faulting of Israel for its conflict with the Palestinians and comments she has made which have been widely interpreted as antisemitic. Read more
UN head chides Jewish state, notes ‘legitimate’ Palestinian grievances
October 11, 2023 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
In January, Gilad Erdan, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, said during an International Holocaust Remembrance Day event that the international body was “founded upon the ashes of the Holocaust. It was established to ensure such darkness would never be felt by humanity again,” but “when it comes to fighting antisemitism, sadly, the U.N. ignores its purpose.” Read more
Washington’s UN envoy blasts Abbas, Jewish violence in Security Council meeting
September 28, 2023 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, had harsh words for both Israelis and Palestinians at the U.N. Security Council’s monthly meeting on the Israeli-Palestinian file on Wednesday. Read more
Israeli actors make ‘Golda’ film more grounded, authentic, says director Guy Nattiv
August 24, 2023 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
Tel Aviv-born film director Guy Nattiv came to global prominence in 2019 when he won the Academy Award for best live-action short film for “Skin,” about neo-Nazis, violence, skinheads and their tattoos. Read more
At UN Security Council meeting, DC, Moscow and Paris take aim at Israel
August 23, 2023 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
Washington’s ambassador to the United Nations repeated claims that yet-untried Israeli suspects involved in a deadly incident earlier this month were terrorists. Read more
UN postpones antisemitism meeting amid stark disagreement
June 12, 2023 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
The United Nations was supposed to convene a meeting with Jewish leaders and global antisemitism envoys next week in Cordoba, Spain to unveil its plan to combat antisemitism. It has postponed that meeting, amid stark disagreement over the contents of the draft plan. Read more
UNRWA to cut services after fundraising falls short
June 7, 2023 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency raised just $107 million during a pledge conference on Friday, well below the $300 million mark it says it needs to continue its operations in Judea and Samaria and neighbouring countries. Read more
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra hires assistant of former Putin confidante
April 17, 2023 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
A former personal assistant of a confidante of Russian President Vladimir Putin is the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra’s new head of artistic operations. Read more
Yad Vashem-sponsored symphony celebrates Japanese diplomat who saved Jews during the Holocaust
March 10, 2023 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
Samurai warriors live by the moral code bushido, or “way of the warrior.” Read more
One year into the war, the displacement, physically and emotionally, of Ukrainian Jews
February 26, 2023 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
The term “displaced persons” doesn’t always adequately capture how much of a geographical impact wars have. Read more
Gene Simmons of Kiss fame to unveil mural of Polish Catholic Holocaust hero
February 23, 2023 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
Artists 4 Israel is expanding its series of murals honouring Righteous Among the Nations. It’s doing so with a “kiss” this time. Read more
Yad Vashem unveils ‘The Book of Names’ at the United Nations
January 27, 2023 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
It’s a book filled with the names of 4.8 million murder victims. The blank pages at the end, though, are especially haunting. Read more
Israeli and PA envoys hurl accusations at Security Council
January 20, 2023 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
The Israeli and Palestinian Authority ambassadors to the United Nations slung barbs at each other in a fiery debate on Wednesday at the U.N. Security Council. Read more
Israel’s UN envoy mocks meeting over Ben-Gvir’s ‘uneventful’ Temple Mount visit
January 8, 2023 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations said he was “overjoyed” when he heard that the U.N. Security Council was holding an emergency meeting Thursday over the “quiet, orderly, uneventful” visit of an Israeli government minister to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. Read more
A conversation with Ron Dermer provides a blueprint for Israel’s strategy
January 2, 2023 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer was sworn in Thursday as strategic affairs minister. Read more
Concert featuring Holocaust songs to perform at Carnegie Hall
December 27, 2022 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
The day Elie Wiesel died, composer and music producer, Ira Antelis, said something came over him. Read more
The White House met with Jewish leaders to discuss antisemitism. Now what?
December 9, 2022 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
Wednesday’s high-profile White House roundtable on antisemitism garnered plenty of headlines. Now, according to those present, the real work starts. Read more
UN Middle East envoy says the region reaching a ‘boiling point’
November 30, 2022 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is “reaching a boiling point,” given a surge in violence in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, the United Nations point man in Jerusalem warned on Monday. Read more
Jewish social media influencer makes a Holocaust documentary for a new generation
November 9, 2022 by Mike Wagenheim - JNS
At a moment of sharply rising anti-Semitism, a Jewish social media star known for her dance videos is getting deadly serious. Read more