NEW YORK, Nov. 20, 2025 — The United Nations adopted six resolutions that single out or condemn Israel — and zero on Sudan, where more than 150,000 people have been killed in the recent war and 12 million forced from their homes.
The texts were enacted by the Fourth Committee of the UN General Assembly, comprised of all 193 UN member states. Countries will formally vote again on a second reading in December when the UNGA plenary rubber stamps the resolutions.
In total, analysis from UN Watch shows that the UNGA is expected to adopt 17 resolutions on Israel — more than on the rest of the world combined — with one resolution each on North Korea, Iran, Syria, and Myanmar, two against the United States, and six on Russia.
The six resolutions adopted yesterday condemn Israel for “repressive measures” against Syrian citizens in the Golan Heights, and reaffirm the mandates of UNRWA and of the UN’s “special committee to investigate Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people and other Arabs of the Occupied Territories.” (Click here for texts and voting sheets.)
“The UN’s assault on Israel with a torrent of one-sided resolutions is surreal,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, a Geneva-based non-governmental watchdog organization.
“The only purpose of these six lopsided condemnations is to demonize the Jewish state. The world should not be deceived that these annual resolutions advance the cause of peace or human rights in any way.”
“While France, Germany, Sweden and other EU states are expected to support most of the estimated 16 resolutions to be adopted against Israel by December, the same European nations have failed to introduce a single UNGA resolution on the human rights situation in Sudan, China, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Turkey, Pakistan, Vietnam, Algeria, or on 175 other countries,” said Neuer. “Where is their concern for international law and human rights?”
“Two of today’s resolutions concern UNRWA — yet none mentions that hundreds of UNRWA employees engaged in or promoted terrorism, as revealed in UN Watch’s new map of the UNRWA Terror Network.”
Notably, this year’s bi-annual resolution in support of UNRWA’s operations faced more pushback from Western countries than in 2023, with several European countries, including Germany, Italy, Austria, and Czechia, flipping from ‘Yes’ votes to an abstention.
“We welcome those EU countries who joined the U.S. in pulling support for the endorsement of UNRWA. However, too many Western states continue to provide financial and political support for the terror-infested agency,” Neuer added.
“One of today’s resolutions — drafted and co-sponsored by Syria — falsely condemns Israel for ‘repressive measures’ against Syrian citizens in the Golan Heights. It’s obscene,” said Neuer.
The resolution condemns Israel for holding on to the Golan Heights, and demands Israel hand the land and its people to Syria.
“It’s astonishing,” said Neuer. “After Syria’s new regime committed a massacre against the Druze people in nearby Suwayda, how can the UN call for thousands of more Druze to be handed over to Syria? The text is morally galling, and logically absurd.”
“Today’s farce at the General Assembly underscores a simple fact: the UN’s automatic majority has no interest in truly helping Palestinians, nor in protecting anyone’s human rights; the goal of these ritual, one-sided condemnations is to scapegoat Israel,” said Neuer.
“The UN’s disproportionate assault against the Jewish state undermines the institutional credibility of what is supposed to be an impartial international body. Politicization and selectivity harm its founding mission, eroding the UN Charter’s promise of equal treatment to all nations large and small,” Neuer added.
Click here to see the virtually identical 18 UN General Assembly resolutions targeting Israel in 2024.
