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Pakistan called an urgent debate at the U.N. Human Rights Council over Israel’s strike on Hamas terror chiefs in Qatar. On cue, brutal regimes such as the Islamic Republic of Iran, Venezuela, Russia and China lined up to bash the Jewish state. Then UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer took the floor to tell the truth about Qatar.

Highlights from the U.N. Human Rights Council debate:

Volker Türk, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights: “The Secretary-General has pointed out that Israel’s action was a flagrant violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Qatar.”

Qatar: “This attack represents a violent, flagrant violation of international humanitarian law by targeting a purely civilian area, amounting to state terrorism.”

Islamic Republic of Iran: “An evil entity has been allowed to destroy global security and order.”

Venezuela: “This aggression is an act of state terrorism.”

Russia: “The Israeli Air Force carried out an attack on a residential district. The grave violation of the sovereignty of state and the serious threat to innocent citizens can have no justification.”

China: “China strongly calls upon Israel to earnestly observe the international human rights law.”

UNHRC Chair: “Thank you. I call upon United Nations Watch.”

Hillel Neuer, UN Watch: “The High Commissioner quoted the Secretary-General. But what changed since 2011?

When the U.S. killed Bin Laden, who was living in a million-dollar compound close to Pakistan’s top military academy, the UN chief at the time celebrated that, quote: ‘Justice has been done to such a mastermind of international terrorism.’

Why has the UN now changed its position?

To understand this double standard we need only recall what Saudi Foreign Minister al-Jubeir said long before today’s debate, in 2018. Quote: ‘The Qataris since the mid-1990s have been sponsoring radicals. They’ve been inciting people. They’ve become a base for the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood which begot us Tafkir wal-Hijra, which begot al-Qaeda.’

‘The Qataris allow their senior religious clerics to go on TV and justify suicide bombings. The Qataris harbor and shelter terrorists. The head of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula entered Saudi Arabia on a Qatari passport. We captured al-Qaeda types coming with Qatari passports. The Qataris know this. The Americans know this. The world knows this.’

Quote: ‘The Qataris pay ransom to terrorist groups including $500 million to Hezbollah in Iraq, $50 million to Qassem Soleimani.’

‘The Qataris use their media platforms to spread hate. The Qataris send weapons to al-Qaeda militias in Libya. There’s a list of terror financiers that the UN puts out and a number of them are living openly in Qatar raising money and giving it to bad people. Why do the Qataris get away with it?’

All of this from the Saudi Foreign Minister.

Mr. President, is not the accuser here the true enabler of terrorism?”

Pakistan called an urgent U.N. debate over Israel’s strike on Hamas terror chiefs in Qatar.

On cue, brutal regimes such as the Islamic Republic of Iran, Venezuela, Russia & China lined up to bash the Jewish state.

Then Hillel Neuer took the floor to tell the truth about Qatar: pic.twitter.com/925mxEeGOK

— UN Watch (@UNWatch) September 22, 2025

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UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer joined Fox Business with Cheryl Casone to discuss the latest developments in the Middle East and the upcoming session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York.

Cheryl Casone, Fox Business: Joining me now is UN Watch Executive Director, Hillel Neuer. Hillel, your reaction to all of the breaking news out of the Middle East this morning?

Hillel Neuer: Well, first, the condolences to the families of the six who were murdered in a horrific terrorist attack in Jerusalem, where Palestinian terrorists opened fire on innocent civilians, including the rabbi and others who were going to study in a Jewish Rabbinical College. They had the holy books in their hands as they were slaughtered by machine guns. The attack this morning — six dead, six seriously injured — underscores what is happening, that the Islamic Republic of Iran has terror proxies, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad operating from Gaza and Judea and Samaria, the West Bank, that have as their mission to murder innocent civilians. That is what terrorists do.

The Houthis, as you indicated, they have sent a drone a thousand miles away. You know, Yemen is a place where people are starving. They don’t have food in Yemen, and the Houthis are spending their resources to send a drone, as you can see on the camera, firing at an airport a thousand miles away — a civilian airport in southern Israel. And the Houthis are a terrorist group, armed, funded, trained by Iran, and their slogan is, “Death to Israel, Death to America, Damn the Jews, Allahu Akbar, Allah is great.” So they’re as jihadist, antisemitic, and anti-American as they get. That’s the Houthis. Amazingly, Israel was able to target several of their leaders just about a week ago in an extraordinary attack, and it shows that the long arm of Israel can reach a thousand miles away, whether it’s Iran or whether it’s the Houthis. And now it’s Hamas’s turn to answer the president. President Trump should be commended. He is trying to release the hostages, end the war, and all of this can happen with those two things. If Hamas today releases the hostages, lays down their arms, the war is over. That’s what we need to see.

Cheryl Casone: But unfortunately, though, if you listen to the back channeling that’s coming out of Hamas, they want the Israelis to leave Gaza, and the Israelis have made it clear they are not doing that. And all of this is unfolding as the 80th annual United Nations General Assembly actually kicks off tomorrow. That’s happening right here in New York, the first day of high-level general debate begins on the 23rd. Countries like the U.K., France, Canada, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand, Malta — they’re all expected to recognize a Palestinian state. U.K. leaders have suggested they may not recognize Palestine if Israel and Hamas reach a ceasefire. And Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussing options for a U.N.-endorsed Gaza reconstruction plan. Hillel, what are you expecting? And in particular, what do you make of this, our allies backing a Palestinian state? Doesn’t that fly in the face of what the United States is trying to accomplish here?

Hillel Neuer: Well, it does. And let’s recall that the U.N. General Assembly that’s about to open in New York City — the main event, as you said, will be the 23rd when the president and other heads of state will arrive — in many cases, it’s a catwalk for dictators. We’re going to have the dictator of Turkey, the dictator of Qatar, the dictatorship from Iran, from Syria. So it’s a catwalk for dictators. And what we don’t need is our democracies making things worse.

As you indicated, President Trump, his envoy Steve Witkoff, Secretary of State Rubio are working very hard to get the hostages released to end the war. What Britain and France and the others are threatening to do only rewards Hamas. It encourages them to be rejectionists. It does not encourage them to release the hostages. It tells them you get a prize if you invade a neighboring country, break a ceasefire, massacre 1,200 people, commit mass rape, you get the reward that France, the U.K., Canada and other democracies say, we will recognize Palestine as a state. Well, this is before, you know, the Palestinian Authority hasn’t dismantled Hamas. They haven’t stopped paying payments to the terrorists. You know, the Palestinian Authority, which is supposedly the moderate in this picture, they’re the ones who do ‘pay to slay’ — they make payments to the families of terrorists. If you commit murder against Israelis — like what happened this morning in Jerusalem, and if the terrorist gets captured and put in prison — then the families get a pension for life. You get rewarded for terrorism.

So the democracies should not be undermining President Trump’s efforts to bring peace and end the war. Instead, what they’re doing is they’re rewarding Hamas. They’re saying you get a prize. And under international law, this is completely bogus. You know, in first-year international law, you learn that to be a state, you need defined territory, effective government, and they have none of these attributes.

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Hillel Neuer appeared on Fox News with Trey Gowdy to discuss Israel’s counterterrorism operations and the despicable support in the West for atrocities committed by Hamas.

Trey Gowdy: Joining us is the Executive Director of the UN Watch, Hillel Neuer. Welcome, sir. Iran sent missiles into Israel. The U.S. seems reluctant to do anything inside Iran—Israel is not. So, what happens next?

Hillel Neuer: Look, Israel is facing a seven front war. The past year they were, as you said, invaded on October 7th, a year ago tomorrow. They suffered the equivalent of something like 10 times what Americans suffered in September 11th, 2001. In a very small country of about 9 million people, 1200 people were massacred, raped, and mutilated.

On October 8th, Hezbollah opened the second front. They attacked Israel again, unprovoked. They launched 10,000 missiles, rockets and suicide drones since then. So where we are now is that Israel has finally begun to strike back against Hezbollah in the north. Because of Hezbollah, many northern towns have been empty. There are some 70,000 Israelis who have been displaced or who are living as refugees within Israel.

Finally, Israel began to strike back, carrying out extraordinary operations. We saw the beepers—1000s of beepers went off on the Hezbollah commanders who were carrying the beepers. They exploded in their hands. So, this was the most pinpoint, precise counterterrorism operation, perhaps in military history.

Then Nasrallah, the arch terrorist of Hezbollah, was eliminated, along with other leaders, and Iran decided that if you attack our terror proxy in Lebanon, then we will strike back. And they attacked Israel with some 200 missiles, again, one of the largest missile barrages ever fired against any country, and now we’re waiting for Israel’s response. And will the response come tomorrow on the anniversary of October 7th? It would be a fitting time, if so.

Trey Gowdy: I don’t ever want to forget about the fact that there are hostages that remain in captivity held by Hamas. So, what exactly is Hamas asking for in return for those that may happen to still be alive that are in their captivity?

Hillel Neuer: You’re quite right. You know, a year ago, Hamas took some 250 innocent people from Israel, dragged them into Gaza, and put them in dungeons. Today, there’s estimated about 100 or so that remain. We don’t know how many are living, or how many are dead. Hamas says that they want Israel to leave Gaza entirely and basically to let Hamas remain in power. That’s basically the deal.

First of all, Hamas has not indicated who’s alive. We don’t know who’s alive or who’s dead. They haven’t really been negotiating in the past several months with any seriousness at all. No one knows where Yahya Sinwar is. Even our supposed ally Qatar, which is a sponsor of the Taliban, a sponsor of Hamas, and a supposed U.S. ally—they’re not helping. They say they don’t know where Sinwar is. In fact, Qatar was giving their hospitality to the leaders of Hamas. It was only when the leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, went to Iran that Israel felt able to strike in a country that’s not a supposed major U.S. ally.

So, it’s not really clear what Hamas wants but certainly they want to remain in power. They want Israel entirely to leave and of course, given what happened on October 7th, Israel is not going to return to a situation where a terrorist army is sitting there with thousands of rockets aimed at Israeli towns, with thousands of terrorists ready to go in tunnels to invade Israeli towns and slaughter families, one child in front of their parents and so forth. These kinds of sadistic atrocities is what took place a year ago, and Hamas only promises that they want to do it again.

And the sick thing, Trey, what I’d say is the most despicable thing, is that in our own cities in the West, in New York City, in London, in Montreal, you have mobs saying that they want to celebrate October 7th. That they want to celebrate attacks on Israelis, against colonialism and all the other ideological nonsense. And I can’t think of anything more despicable that here in the West, in democracies, there are people openly supporting Hamas and Hezbollah, both of them evil, barbaric terrorist groups which are openly antisemitic, openly call to destroy Israel, and openly endorse the slaughter of families. And in the streets and the campuses of America, you have students who are embracing this. It’s really despicable.

Trey Gowdy: Hillel Neuer, thank you so much for joining us on a Sunday night.

Hillel Neuer: Thank you for having me.

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Today is Jewish Refugees Day, when we remember the fate of 850,000 Jewish refugees forced out of Arab countries and Iran in the 20th century. Communities dating back 2,500 years were destroyed. At the United Nations, UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer asked Algeria, Egypt, Iraq and the others: “Where are your Jews?” We’re still waiting for an answer.

Today we remember the fate of 850,000 Jewish refugees forced out of Arab countries and Iran in the 20th century. Communities dating back 2,500 years were destroyed.

At the UN, I asked Algeria, Egypt, Iraq & the others: “Where are your Jews?”

FULL VIDEO: https://t.co/i2bl2DPS7B pic.twitter.com/IoPg8Bwcta

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) November 30, 2019

In Aden, now part of Yemen, local Arabs slaughtered or burned to death 87 Jews, including children, women & the elderly; dozens more were seriously injured; the 2 Jewish schools, several synagogues & many homes were destroyed; every Jewish shop was looted.https://t.co/NjChzeCE98

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) November 30, 2019

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SG Ban Ki-moon honours PermReps who have served @UN longer than ten years at ceremony International Association of Permanent Representatives pic.twitter.com/CPYeCDdWuR

— Karel van Oosterom (@KvanOosterom) October 24, 2016

Ban Ki-moon pinning the awards:

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Cake honoring Syrian envoy and his colleagues:

 
 

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GENEVA, July 7, 2016 — Turkey played a key role as co-sponsor of the U.N.’s “internet freedom” resolution, even as it censors and shuts down access to websites such as Twitter, Facebook and Wikipedia. 

All the while, President Erdogan’s increasingly authoritarian government has continued to implement policies which directly contravene the prescriptions of the resolution. Erdogan’s government practises restrictive censorship and policing of the internet. In the wake of recent terrorist attacks in Istanbul, Turkey effected multiple media blackouts, while the European Court of Human Rights ruled in December 2015 that the government’s prolonged blocking of video sharing site YouTube was illegal. In the second half of 2015, Turkey made more requests than any other nation to remove or block content on Twitter.

The suppression of internet freedoms is part of a wider, systematic attempt to stifle free speech in Turkey. These efforts came to a head in March, 2016, when the government seized Turkey’s largest newspaper, Zaman. The actions were met with strong condemnation, including from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

And yet states like Sweden and the US, who profess to be standard bearers for human rights, are happy to enable Turkey in its bid to whitewash its own abuses, content for them to join as cosponsors on key UN resolutions.

This pattern of events is a near carbon copy of proceedings at the 31st session of the Human Rights Council, which took place in March. Then, Turkey joined Costa Rica and Switzerland as a sponsor of a resolution on “The promotion and protection of human rights in the context of peaceful protests.” Turkish police killed 11 and injured some 8,000 people in 2013 during the Gezi Park protests. 

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At the recent UN World Health Assembly, why did the UK, France, Germany and other EU states vote for a politicized resolution—co-sponsored by the Arab states and the Palestinians—that singled out Israel as the only alleged violator of “mental, physical and environmental health”? Why didn’t they join Australia, Canada and the U.S. in rejecting the hijacking of a vital world body?  CLICK HERE to urge EU leaders to disavow their shameful WHO vote

FAQ: Did EU Really Single Out Israel?

Q – I read that the European Union and Germany have tried to deny, downplay or justify their vote, implying that they didn’t really single out Israel. Is it true that the final WHO text supported by the EU was devoid of any criticism of Israel?
A – No, that is demonstrably false. By voting for and supporting the resolution, adopted on May 25, 2016, the EU and its member states did the following:

1. Requested the Director-General of the World Health Organization to produce a report “on the health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem” and “in the occupied Syrian Golan,” with special focus on … “the effect of Israeli actions harming the environment, including the dumping of waste materials which pose a health threat to the civilian populations.” (Op.1 and Op. 1(f))

2. Perpetuated the singling out of Israel once again on the agenda of next year’s 2017 meeting of the WHO, by calling for the Director-General to “to report and make practical recommendations” on the health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan, to the Seventieth World Health Assembly. (Op.1)

3. Perpetuated, by doing the above, a repetition in 2017 of the entire singling out of Israel at the WHO, just like what was featured this year: a special debate, three lopsided reports, the resolution, and the publication of country submissions, including an inflammatory 59-page Palestinian submission — with fake photographs — which complains of a “racist separation barrier”; and a Syrian submission laced with anti-Semitic conspiracy tropes, alleging that “the Israeli occupation authorities” continue “to experiment on Syrian and Arab prisoners with medicines and drugs and to inject them with pathogenic viruses.” Out of 24 items on the WHO assembly’s agenda, only one, Item No. 19 against Israel, focused on a specific country. The EU and its member states have now perpetuated the same for next year.

5. Enumerated a long list of implied Israeli violations. Disingenuously, the the text in many cases avoids mentioning the actualy word Israel—even as the resolution commissions a report on policies and practices that are necessarily attributed to alleged Israeli wrongdoing, such as:

a. “Physical and procedural barriers to health access in the occupied Palestinian territory, including as a result of movement restrictions and territorial fragmentation…”  Op. 1(a)

b. “Delay or denial of ambulance service, and the harmful effects of the “back-to-back” procedure for the ambulance transfer of patients across checkpoints…” Op. 1(b)

c. “Destruction of medical infrastructure and facilities…” Op. 1(c)

d. “The health consequences of the military detention system on prisoners and detainees, especially child detainees…”  Op. 1(d)

e. “The impact of prolonged occupation and human rights violations on mental, physical and environmental health and on the development of a sustainable health system in the occupied Palestinian territory…”  Op.1(e)

f.  “The effect of impeded access to water and sanitation, and food insecurity, on health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory…”  Op.1(f)

By contrast, the UN assembly did not address Syrian hospitals being bombed by Syrian and Russian warplanes, or millions of Yemenis denied access to food and water by the Saudi-led bombings and blockade. Nor did the 69th World Health Assembly adopt a resolution on any other country in the world.

For more information on the resolution, click here.

Video of Country Statements and Votes

Statements by Iran, European Union, Syria, USA, Canada, and others:

List of Country Votes and Statements

Click here for full record of voting results

Argentina — vote

Australia — vote
Bolivia — statement
Canada — vote; statement
Cuba — statement
China — vote
Colombia — vote
Egypt — statement
European Union — statement
France — vote
Germany — vote

Ghana — vote
Guatemala — vote
Iran — vote; statement
Iraq — statement
Italy — vote
Israel — vote; statement
Jordan — statement
Kuwait — vote
Maldives — statement
Micronesia — vote
New Zealand — vote
Netherlands — vote

Nicaragua — statement
Pakistan — vote; statement
Palestine — statement
Paraguay — vote
Russia — vote

Saudi Arabia — vote

Sweden — vote

Switzerland — vote

Syria — vote; statement
Turkey — vote; statement

United Kingdom — vote

United States — vote; statement
Venezuela — vote; statement

Zimbabwe — vote

 
 

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Swedish delegate joins UK, France, Germany and other EU states today in voting “Yes” to single out Israel at the 2016 WHO world assembly, May 25, 2016.

GENEVA, May 25 — The UK, France, Germany and other EU states voted today for a UN resolution, co-sponsored by the Arab group of states and the Palestinian delegation, that singled out Israel at the annual assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) as the only violator of “mental, physical and environmental health,” and commissioned a WHO delegation to investigate and report on “the health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory” and in “the occupied Syrian Golan,” and to place it on the agenda again at next year’s meeting.
By contrast, the UN assembly did not address Syrian hospitals being bombed by Syrian and Russian warplanes, or millions of Yemenis denied access to food and water by the Saudi-led bombings and blockade, nor did it pass a resolution on any other country in the world. Out of 24 items on the meeting’s agenda, only one, Item No. 19 against Israel, focused on a specific country. The resolution was worse than last year’s text, adding several new accusations, many of them beyond the WHO’s remit.
UN Reaches New Heights of Absurdity 
“The UN reached new heights of absurdity today,” said UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer, “by enacting a resolution which accuses Israel of violating the health rights of Syrians in the Golan, even as in reality Israeli hospitals continue their life-saving treatment for Syrians fleeing to the Golan from the Assad regime’s barbaric attacks.”
“Shame on Britain, France and Germany for encouraging this hijacking of the annual world health assembly, and diverting precious time, money, and resources from global health priorities, in order to demonize Israelis, especially when, in reality, anyone who has ever walked into an Israeli hospital or clinic knows that they are providing world-class health care to thousands of Palestinian Arabs, as well as to Syrians fleeing Assad,” Neuer added.
“At the same time,” said Neuer, “UN Watch commends the principled stand taken by the U.S., Canada, Australia, Paraguay, Guatemala, Micronesia and Papua New Guinea in joining Israel to oppose perpetuating a politicized agenda item.” The U.S. and Canada both took the floor today to strongly object to the anti-Israel exercise.
The vote was 107 to 8 for the resolution, with 8 abstentions and 58 absent. The resolution calls for reports on a series of alleged Israeli violations, including on “the impact of prolonged occupation and human rights violations on mental,
physical and environmental health” in “the occupied Palestinian territory.”

The text also adopted three reports mandated by last year’s Arab-sponsored resolution: a “field assessment” on “health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory”, a similar report by the WHO director-general, and a related report by the WHO secretariat.
UN’s 2016 World Health Assembly voting on today’s anti-Israel resolution, May 25, 2016

Palestinian and Syrian Submissions
By backing the measure, EU states joined in the delegitimization of Israel—in the form of a special debate, three lopsided reports, the resolution, and the publication of country submissions, including an inflammatory 59-page Palestinian submission which complains of a “racist separation barrier” while blaming increased Palestinian traffic accidents on the fear of “being pursued by settlers”; and a Syrian submission laced with anti-Semitic conspiracy tropes, yet circulated as an official UN document on the conference agenda, which alleges that “the Israeli occupation authorities” continue “to experiment on Syrian and Arab prisoners with medicines and drugs and to inject them with pathogenic viruses.”
Unable to deny Israel’s medical treatment of thousands of wounded Syrians, the regime accuses Israel of a plot: healing “armed terrorists from Jabhah al-Nusrah” so that they can “resume their subversive terrorist activities directed against the country’s peaceful citizens and its infrastructure.”
Iran and Syria Take the Floor
Several countries took the floor ahead of the vote. Iran said Gaza was under “an inhuman blockade.” Syria said “the occupying Israeli forces continue their immoral practice, which punish our people in the Golan.”
Egypt accused Israel of “disregard for basic human rights.” Pakistan spoke of Israel’s “devastation of the health system in the occupied territories” and of a “wave of terror against the Palestinian civilian population.”

UNRWA, which received more than $400 million from the U.S. last year, said the root causes of Palestinian medical problems include “interference with basic human rights as a result of numerous policies of the Israeli authorities.”
The whole was met with delight in the overflow room for media and NGO representatives, who snickered and scoffed when the Israeli delegate took the floor to denounce the politicized resolution.
EU Joined the Jackals
Had the EU wanted, they could have set the record straight, and taken a stand against such base demonization of the Jewish state. Disgracefully, however, Britain, France, Germany and all other EU states joined the jackals by voting for today’s resolution.
The EU states could have introduced their own resolution about how Syria has killed hundreds of thousands of its own people, destroying the health rights of the Syrian people.
Yet the EU was silent. Instead, it justified its vote by claiming in its speech that today’s resolution was “technical.” This is the old Brussels-Ramallah wink-and-nod game: the PLO submits a more inflammatory text at the beginning, knowing it will be revised later to allow the Europeans to pretend they achieved a “balanced” text. Israel is then expected to celebrate that it has been lynched with a lighter rope.
Last month, France and Spain voted for an Arab-sponsored UNESCO resolution that contained the wild conspiracy claim that Israel was “planting fake Jewish graves” in Jerusalem.
With today’s vote, which robs the world health organization of limited time and resources in order to portray Israel as the world’s only violator of health rights—when in fact Israel is the beacon of the entire region on promoting and respecting the health rights of all people—the entire EU now descends into irrationalism.
By scapegoating the Jewish state for all the world’s health problems, just as medieval Europe once accused the Jews of poisoning the wells, the EU aids and abets the UN and its World Health Organization to betray the cause of humanity and the very principles upon which they were founded.
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Rise and Fall
The United Nations Human Rights Commission was founded by one of the great humanitarians, Eleanor Roosevelt.

Not There to Help Victims
I’ll never forget when the coup d’état happened in Gaza, when Hamas violently ousted the PLO. I happened to be at the United Nations Human Rights Council during that time.

They are not there to help the victims. They are there to scapegoat. It is part of a narrative, where Israel is this meta-criminal.
Most Hated Person at the UN   
I have become the most hated person at the United Nations. When I walk into the Human Rights Council, I feel the glares of hatred, of enmity directed at me.

So when I walk into the Human Rights Council, I feel the hatred all around me; and it’s not easy.
Not Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
At the end of the day, this is a political body. It is not a body as most Europeans think, when they hear the words “United Nations Human Rights Council,” and when they read a headline “The UN Human Rights Council said” — for most Europeans, that’s like saying “And the Lord said to Moses at Sinai.” They think it’s gospel.

Europeans don’t realize that, and they don’t want to know that. They have really a fantasy, which is very beautiful and it’s very pretty, but it hasn’t been true in perhaps five decades.
Why the UN Matters
Like it or not, the UN matters. The United Nations is the single most important repository of international legitimacy, and people around the world believe in the UN.
Even though things are upside down, we need to be there and we need to fight lies and spread the truth.

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