Israel Condemned by U.N. Twice as Many Times as Rest of World: Report

A new study conducted by a watchdog organization found that Israel was sanctioned by the United Nations twice as many times as the rest of the world combined in 2023.

Whereas the Jewish state was the target of 14 General Assembly resolutions, the remaining member states, including authoritarian regimes such as North Korea, Russia, Syria, and Iran, were denounced only seven times. The United States was also condemned for its blockade of Cuba, U.N. Watch reported on Tuesday.

Israel was targeted by three resolutions on Tuesday alone, for being “the only country to be censured under the ‘Sustainable Development’ agenda item,” the report argues, for an oil slick that impacted Lebanon. Another resolution accused the Jewish state of exploiting Palestinian natural resources, and the last alleged that the country stonewalled “the Palestinian people” and their right “to self-determination.”

Among the other resolutions Israel was singled out for were its failure to unilaterally withdraw from the Golan Heights as well as its alleged failure to protect civilians or uphold “legal and humanitarian obligations” amid its ongoing war in Gaza.

By comparison, Russia got by with only one motion condemning its invasion of Ukraine. China, which, according to the United States, has placed Uyghur Muslims in concentration and reeducation camps, was not sanctioned at all.

“The UN’s latest assault on Israel with a torrent of one-sided resolutions is surreal,” Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based group, said upon the report’s publication on Wednesday. “It’s absurd that in the year 2023, out of 21 UN General Assembly resolutions that criticize countries, 14 of them — two-thirds — were focused on a single country: Israel. Make no mistake, the purpose of the lopsided condemnations is to demonize the Jewish state.”

“This demonization fuels the antisemitic agitators in America today and around the world who are threatening Jews on campus, at community centers, and at their businesses.”

In early November, UN Watch released a bombshell investigation documenting that nearly two dozen U.N. Rights and Works Agency (UNRWA) employees celebrated the Hamas slaughter of Israeli civilians.

Shortly after thousands of Hamas terrorists flooded across the Israeli-Gaza border on October 7, UNRWA staffers and affiliated teachers shared on social media their celebrations and justifications of the atrocities, according to UN Watch’s report, “UNRWA: Hate Starts Here.”

“Allah is Great, Allah is Great, reality surpasses our wildest dreams,” wrote Osama Ahmed, a UNRWA teacher in Gaza, in a characteristic Facebook post.

The publication documents numerous senior-ranking members of the organization gloating about the October 7 atrocities, including Rawia Helles, the director of a training center in Khan Younis, a town in the southern Gaza Strip. Helles applauded the depraved acts of Palestinian terrorists, calling one operative a “hero” and “prince” for his actions. She was also featured in a UNRWA appeal on YouTube in October, raising awareness about the organization’s work. Mohammad Adwan, an English teacher within a UNRWA-funded institution in Rafah, justified the Hamas attack against “a people that Europe wanted to get rid of.”

“We have owned this land for thousands of years. Our ancestors were the ones who planted its olive trees for hundreds of years until a people came that Europe wanted to get rid of, so they sent them to occupy our homes and displace our ancestors with massacres,” Adwan wrote four days after the Hamas invasion. “What we do is resistance, regaining our rights and defending our land, and what they do is called occupation and colonialism (I think the West understands this word well).”

Rafiq Kuheil, another English teacher affiliated with UNRWA, wrote, “7th, October, 2023! Sculpture the date! ❤️,” on Facebook.

The publication shared close to two dozen screenshots and translations of UNRWA employees reveling in the deaths of Israeli civilians. The report was issued one day before the German government decided to release nearly $100 million in funding to the organization after an internal review it conducted.