In March, the United Nations compiled a “black list” of Israeli companies doing business in the West Bank. In some pro-Israel circles, it appeared part of a larger trend: the UN singling out Israel for condemnation. But on May 31, Israel’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations and the World Jewish Congress hosted what they…
– The interior minister of France criticized his country’s recent vote at a U.N. agency for a resolution that critics said ignored Jewish historical ties to Jerusalem and its holy sites. Bernard Cazeneuve spoke of his objection to France’s April 16 vote at UNESCO, the Paris-based U.N. organization dealing with education, culture and heritage, at an…
JERUSALEM — A United Nations official in the Middle East turned down Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s offer to host a seminar on the Jews’ connection to the Temple Mount. The UN’s special Middle East envoy, Nickolay Mladenov, told the French news agency AFP that the “UN staff in Jerusalem know the history of the region,…
Senior Palestinian officials, including some from Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party, are criticizing the Palestinian Authority president’s decision to postpone consideration of a UN Security Council resolution condemning settlement construction. For the past several weeks, the Palestinians have been telling both Western diplomats and the media that they intend to demand a vote on the resolution,…
The liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz has urged Barack Obama to back a Palestinian resolution at the United Nations — and to ignore Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s calls for a veto. The resolution, expeceted to be oonsidered later this month, calls for a resumption of direct talks and a one-year deadline for an agreement on a…
New York — An exhibition on Israel at the United Nations headquarters will include a panel on Zionism, one of three that the international body had previously deemed “inappropriate.” Calling the reinstated panel a “clear win for Israeli diplomacy and a victory for the truth about Israel,” Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations,…
The United Nations has censored an exhibition about Israel set to go on display at the organization’s headquarters in New York. Three of the 13 panels in the exhibition “Israel Matters,” which is set to open Monday, will be deleted, the U.N. decided over the weekend. The censored panels deemed “inappropriate” are on the subjects…
TORONTO (JTA) — Canada’s foreign affairs minister has called on the United Nations to review the appointment of a Canadian law professor with a history of anti-Israel bias to a key United Nations job. Government minister Stephane Dion is questioning the appointment of Michael Lynk, a law professor at Western University in London, Ontario, as…
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