UN Watch was quoted in media outlets around the world in August 2025 on numerous topics, including Hillel’s viral speech in which he called out Pakistan as a state sponsor of terror.
Featured in NZZ, “The UN critic Hillel Neuer wants a Palestinian self-administration for Gaza,” September 18, 2025:
Our report documents in detail how deeply Hamas is embedded in UNRWA. This is not just a matter of a few employees. Take Lebanon: there, Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri, the head of Hamas’ military wing, was hiding in a school owned by UNRWA in 2017. UNRWA’s education infrastructure is part of Hamas’ functioning apparatus.
Even more striking is the dual role played by Philippe Lazzarini, the current head of UNRWA: on the one hand, he runs a humanitarian organization; on the other, he is the CEO of an organization whose business model depends exclusively on maintaining the refugee issue and the myth of the Palestinian refugee. UNRWA’s founding in 1949 was intended as a temporary solution. Yet it has created a permanent bureaucracy with over 30,000 local employees and entrenched itself so deeply in Palestinian society that the idea of self-administration without UNRWA is now considered unthinkable.
Featured in La Stampa, “The UN only repeats Hamas’s lies. The accusation of genocide is propaganda,” September 18, 2025:
From the very beginning of the conflict there has been a bizarre rush to believe the lies — lies spread by Hamas, by its affiliates, or by officials and agencies that present themselves as neutral. The most serious lie of all is the accusation of genocide. This is based on a distorted legal analysis of Israel’s conduct in Gaza, presented to the International Court of Justice on January 11. It is propaganda dressed up in legal language, but it is false. The UN Human Rights Council’s commission empties every military action of its context and turns urban warfare into genocide.
Appeared on Fox Business, September 9, 2025:
Key Quote:
“The UN General Assembly that’s about to open in New York City 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, of Qatar, from Iran, from Syria. So it’s a catwalk for dictators, and what we don’t need is our democracies making things worse. President Trump, his envoy Steve Wickoff, 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 rejectionist.”
Appeared on Sky News, September 10, 2025:
Key Quote:
“This Report was not made in good faith. It was based on cherrypicked data. They used partial data from July, declaring that they saw a rising trend. They ignored contrary data. They inflated mortality figures using data that came from the terrorists. These are basically terrorist claims. These are Hamas claims laundered by a UN backed report, and if we know a little bit about who the authors are, that tells us a bit more about how this happened.”
Appeared on Fox News Radio, September 9, 2025:
Key quote:
Much of the U.N. has been hijacked by radical politics. And again, Gaza is a classic case, because there you could have real aid agencies actually helping people and giving food and settling refugees. Instead, Guterres gave the order: ‘Only UNRWA can deal with it,’ and UNRWA is not a neutral agency whose mission is to give out food. Their mission is to tell Palestinians that ‘You suffered an injustice and you have the right to return and dismantle Israel.’ If it were not the case, then there would be a dozen other U.N. agencies that could be giving out the food: UNHCR, UNDP, World Health Organization. Those are the agencies that do so all around the world. “
Featured in India Today, “Pak’s worst 4 seconds at UN: Interrupted, lawyer roasts country over terrorism,” September 12, 2025″
A spellbinding and uncomfortable 10 minutes at the UN: Hillel Neuer accused Qatar of harbouring terror operatives and drew Pakistan into the crossfire when Islamabad interrupted. Neuer’s final charge, labelling Pakistan a state sponsor of terror and reminding the world of the Osama bin Laden raid, sharpened an already heated debate over Israel’s strikes in Doha. We unpack Neuer’s assertions, Pakistan’s objections, Netanyahu’s warning, and the broader implications for regional diplomacy and counterterrorism policy.
Featured in The Indian Witness, “Pakistan Branded ‘State Sponsor of Terror’ at UN,” September 12, 2025:
During a United Nations Human Rights Council session on September 10, 2025, Pakistan faced sharp criticism when Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, labeled it ‘another state sponsor of terror.’ The accusation came amid a discussion on recent Israeli strikes targeting Hamas leaders in Doha, Qatar, which Pakistan had condemned as ‘unlawful and heinous.’ Neuer’s remarks, delivered with only four seconds remaining after a Pakistani interruption, left the delegation visibly stunned and underscored ongoing tensions over terrorism allegations.
Featured in Times of India, “Pakistan Destroyed By UN Watch in Four Seconds, Reminded of Its Own Terror Links, Osama Bin Laden,” September 12, 2025:
A spellbinding and uncomfortable 10 minutes at the UN: Hillel Neuer accused Qatar of harbouring terror operatives and drew Pakistan into the crossfire when Islamabad interrupted. Neuer’s final charge, labelling Pakistan a state sponsor of terror and reminding the world of the Osama bin Laden raid, sharpened an already heated debate over Israel’s strikes in Doha. We unpack Neuer’s assertions, Pakistan’s objections, Netanyahu’s warning, and the broader implications for regional diplomacy and counterterrorism policy.
Featured in the Hindustan Times, “‘State sponsor of terror’: Pakistan invites burn in 4 seconds after lawyer mentions Osama at UN,” September 13, 2025:
Hillel Neuer, who is executive director of UN Watch, was speaking about countries ‘harbouring terrorists’ when Pakistan rep interrupted.
Featured in Firstpost, “‘Mr President, Pakistan is another state sponsor of terror’: When UN Watch ED got 4 seconds to finish speech,” September 13, 2025:
Pakistan was once again humiliated at the international level, this time in just 4 seconds by the Executive Director of UN Watch, Hillel Neuer. Here’s how it went down.
Featured in Sky News, “‘There is not famine’: UN’s report of famine in Gaza called out as ‘complete fraud’ ,” September 10, 2025:
UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer says the IPC, which declared famine in Gaza, was a ‘fabricated report’…’There are objective measures and standards that are used normally to determine if there’s famine, and in this report, it was politically motivated to fabricate a finding of famine,’ Mr Neuer told Sky News host Chris Kenny.
Quoted in the Washington Examiner, “Trump administration not in a Palestinian state of mind, ” September 5, 2025:
Hillel Neuer, the executive director of UN Watch, a human rights nongovernmental organization and U.N. watchdog group, is worried by the recognition trend. ‘The declarations won’t create a state, but they are more than symbolic,’ he said. Neuer added that recognition by key Western democracies ‘marks a profound diplomatic shift.’ Until now, he said, the recognition by some 150 countries came mostly from Muslim and non-Western states. ‘The danger for Israel is that these new votes will lend legitimacy to a unilateral move that rewards Hamas’s Oct. 7 atrocities and entrenches rejectionism rather than fostering genuine peace negotiations and maximizing pressure for the hostages’ release,’ Neuer said.
Quoted in the New York Sun, “Media-Cited ‘Genocide Experts’ Who Accused Israel of Crimes Against Humanity Turn Out To Be Anyone With $30,” September 4, 2025:
‘The more you learn about it, the International Association of Genocide Scholars has about the same scholarly authority as the International House of Pancakes,’ quipped a human rights attorney, Hillel Neuer, the executive director of a prominent NGO watchdog group, UN Watch.
Quoted in The European Conservative, “EU Told It Is Harming Europe’s Own Interests by Punishing Israel,” September 17, 20225:
A researcher at the monitoring group UN Watch added that it was ‘filled with fake data, fake intent, fake evidence’ and ‘erases Hamas.’
Quoted in VOA Farsi, “UN Watch: Human Rights Council is ‘obsessed with demonizing Israel’,” September 18, 2025:
In response to these statements, the UN Watch NGO accused the UN Human Rights Council of being ‘obsessed with demonizing Israel,’ saying that ‘every session of the Council has a standing agenda item against Israel,’ while ‘no other country, not the Islamic Republic of Iran, not Russia, not North Korea, is given such attention.’
Quoted in Sky News, “UN called out for ‘cherry picking data’ based on ‘Hamas claims’ to declare famine in Gaza,” September 10, 2025:
UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer says the IPC which declared famine in Gaza, used ‘cherry-picked data’ based on ‘Hamas claims’. Last month, the IPC issued a report which declared the Famine Review Committee had determined that famine is currently occurring in Gaza. Critics say the body changed its standards and criteria in order to declare a human-induced famine in parts of Gaza.
Quoted in Bild, “Controversial UN report accuses Israel of ‘genocide,'” September 16, 2025:
And according to the UN-critical observer organization ‘UN Watch,’ Chris Sidoti of Australia complained in a speech to the Human Rights Council (2022) that Jews “throw around accusations of anti-Semitism like others throw rice at a wedding.
Quoted in Sky News, “War in Gaza continues due to Hamas’ constant attacks on Israel,” September 10, 2025:
UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer says Israel is ‘not trying to harm the population’ in Gaza and wants to eradicate Hamas. ‘All of this can end now if Hamas releases the hostages, lays down their arms,’ Mr Neuer told Sky News host Chris Kenny. ‘The war is going on because Hamas continues to attack Israel.’
Quoted in The Canadian Press, “Facing global isolation at UN, a defiant Netanyahu says Israel ‘must finish the job’ against Hamas.”
Netanyahu’s message was simultaneously applauded by UN Watch, a non-governmental group long supportive of Israel. ‘His address had a dual tone: defiance in the face of terror, but also a vision for peace with Arab neighbors, and even with a free Iran one day,” the group’s executive director, Hillel Neuer, said in a statement.’
Quoted in The Jewish Chronicle, “Francesca Albanese sued for defamation by US charities after ‘UN immunity ends’,” September 9, 2025:
The UN has invoked her immunity as one of its officials and called on the US to remove the sanctions against her. However, human rights lawyer and director of watchdog UN Watch Hillel Neuer suggested that this has expired: ‘She can now be sanctioned and she can be sued,’ Neuer said.
Quoted in The Canadian Jewish News, “As the UN General Assembly meets this week, they’ll have a vocal new critic: Linda Frum,” September 8, 2025:
Former senator Linda Frum has been appointed the new chair of UN Watch, a Geneva-based non-governmental organization that has, for decades, exposed an alleged anti-Israel bias on the global stage. In the last few years, UN Watch has directed its lens in particular toward the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, which employed at least nine staffers who were possibly involved with the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel—and who were subsequently fired in the summer of 2024.
Quoted in Times of India, “Triple Blow! Pakistan Humiliated By Israel, India And UN Watch Over Osama, Terror Links At The UN,” September 13, 2025:
Pakistan is reeling after a hat-trick of humiliation at the United Nations. Israel’s envoy Danny Danon delivered a knockout punch, reminding the world that Osama bin Laden was sheltered and killed on Pakistani soil. Days earlier, UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer branded Islamabad a “state sponsor of terror” in just four seconds.
Featured in Zee News, “Meet Hillel Neuer: Human Rights Lawyer Who Humiliated Pakistan In 4 Seconds At UN Over Terrorism,” September 13, 2025:
The most striking moment came when Neuer mentioned Pakistan’s long-standing ties to terrorist groups. As he outlined Qatar’s support for Hamas since 2012, he was interrupted by a Pakistani delegate, who accused him of violating UN norms and leveling baseless allegations. However, the chair allowed Neuer to continue.With just seconds left, Neuer delivered a stinging rebuke, ‘Mr President, Pakistan is another state sponsor of terror.’ The remark, lasting only four seconds, left Pakistan visibly embarrassed on the global stage and ignited widespread reaction online.
Quoted in 21 News, “Former Hamas prisoner Rami Aman denounces the compromises of Al Jazeera, UNRWA and Amnesty International,” September 15, 2o25:
His testimony, collected by the Geneva-based NGO UN Watch , sheds a harsh light on the stifling of peaceful voices, Hamas’s stranglehold on all aspects of daily life, and the compromise of international institutions supposed to help the civilian population, such as UNRWA and certain media outlets like Al Jazeera.
Quoted in Religion News, “Christian Zionist organizations sue UN Palestinian rights watchdog for defamation,” September 11, 2025:
Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, a human rights watchdog organization, said Albanese has been waging ‘economic lawfare’ against Israel for years. He called the lawsuit ‘an important step in showing that those who spread defamatory lies under a false U.N. banner, whipping up anti-Jewish hatred and violent attacks worldwide, will finally face accountability.’
Quoted in World Israel News, “Gaza dissident exposes UN, Amnesty Int’l complicity with Hamas,” September 15, 2025:
In an exclusive interview published Monday by the non-profit group UN Watch, Rami Aman took aim not only at Hamas, but also at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the Qatari media outlet Al Jazeera, and Amnesty International, accusing the latter of colluding with Hamas to have him imprisoned.
Quoted in Israel Hayom, “Lawsuit against UN envoy Francesca Albenza in the US: ‘Accuses us of responsibility for genocide in Gaza,'” September 9, 2025:
Albanese, who previously claimed diplomatic immunity by virtue of her position at the UN, is seemingly in an unclear official status.This is because while the UN technically renewed Albanese’s mandate in April, experts, including UN Watch Director-General Hillel Noyer, argue that Albanese’s renewal of appointment ‘was never legally done,’ and is therefore not valid.
Quoted in CBN Israel, “U.S. State Department Makes a Momentous Decision,” September 4, 2025:
UN Watch, a non-profit watchdog that holds the UN accountable to its founding principles, provides a sobering perspective. Reviewing the UN Human Rights Council’s record from 2006 through 2024, UN Watch notes that the body passed 108 resolutions against Israel, compared to 45 against Syria, 15 against Iran, 10 against Russia, and only 4 against Venezuela. The imbalance is staggering. Very simply, the UN does not hold dictatorships to the same standard it imposes on Israel.
