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UN Watch demands democracies explain election of human rights abusers to UN positions

In UN Watch's press release, the NGO cited the UN's Economic and Social Council's (ECOSOC) recent nomination of Iran to the UN’s Committee for Program and Coordination.

|ByTZVI JASPER
UN HIGH COMMISSIONER for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet makes a speech at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, in February.
UNITED NATIONS Secretary-General Antonio Guterres smiles while speaking with Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer inside 10 Downing Street in central London, Britain, January 16, 2026.

Guterres faces backlash for congratulating Iranian regime, UN Watch demands transparency

According to Iran's state outlet, Guterres extended congratulations to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, describing the day as an opportunity to reflect on the country's path.

|ByTZVI JASPER
United Nations Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, attends a press conference at the European headquarters of the UN in Geneva, Switzerland, September 15, 2025.

Georgetown University severs ties with UN’s Francesca Albanese over antisemitic remarks

Georgetown University has removed Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur, following her antisemitic remarks, including justifying the October 7 attacks, after a campaign by UN Watch.

|BySHOSHANA BAKER
FRANCESCA ALBANESE, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, speaks at the UN in Geneva in September. Her antisemitic record and support for terrorists led to condemnation and sanctioning by the US, the writer notes.

UN's Broken Chair: How Geneva became ground zero for global antisemitism - opinion

The fight against antisemitism will not be won through appeasement or compromise but by directly confronting the institutions that lend it credibility and the totalitarian partners who sustain them.

|ByDANIEL Y. RADOMSKI

UNHRC cuts off UN Watch for quoting antisemitic posts by UNRWA teachers

The UNHRC cut off UN Watch for quoting antisemitic posts by UNRWA teachers, saying it was an unacceptable personal attack.

OCTOBER 3, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Deputy Minister, Alvin Botes delivers a National Statement at the Annual High Level Panel on Human Rights Mainstreaming under the theme “Thirty years of implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: challenges and opportunities”, at the UNHRC, Geneva.

UNRWA to probe 10 staff for anti-Israel speech

The agency has been under fire for incitement in teaching material at its schools and in employee social media posts.

AUGUST 8, 2021ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
A Palestinian teacher conducts a class for students in an UNRWA-run school that reopened after the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions were eased, at al-Fari'ah refugee camp, in the West Bank April 12, 2021.

Over 100 UNRWA teachers incite violence, antisemitism online - report

A total of 113 instances of incitement obtained by UN Watch from the public social media pages of the UNWRA employees shows that many celebrated and promoted violence.

AUGUST 3, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Palestinian employees of United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) take part in a protest against job cuts by UNRWA, in Gaza City September 19, 2018.

US boycotts fail to shake UNHRC’s anti-Israel bias

The UN as an organization has never found a formula that both allows for full democratic participation of all member states, while at the same time protecting against undue bias.

FEBRUARY 9, 2021ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
United Nations' High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet adjusts her glasses during the opening of 45th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European UN headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland September 14, 2020.

UN official who was caught in sex act in Tel Aviv traffic condemned

Stéphane Dujarric, the spokesman for the UN's Secretary General, António Guterres, characterized their behavior in the 18-second as "abhorrent"

JUNE 27, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Dizengoff St. traffic

Jordan, Palestinians confident UNRWA’s mandate will be renewed

The UN is currently investigating the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) following charges of ethical misconduct.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
SEATS NORMALLY occupied by the United States delegation are empty one day after the US announced its withdrawal from the UN’s Human Rights Council, at the United Nations in Geneva on June 20, 2018

UNRWA staffers share antisemitic content with no consequences, NGO says

According to the UN Watch report, the latest cases bring the total number of staff members uncovered posting similar messages to one hundred.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019ByROSSELLA TERCATIN
A Palestinian woman walks with her children near an entrance of the UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) health center in the Shuafat refugee camp in east Jerusalem October 10, 2018

Danon to UNSC: Ramallah following Tehran in seeking Israel’s destruction

Palestinians: Envoy lying about normalized Arab ties

AUGUST 22, 2019ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
"This is the deed to our land," stated Danny Danon, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations as he read from the Bible at the Security Council, April 29, 2019

Palestinians revive charge Zionism is racism at U.N. hearing

“What we face is the Zionist movement," PLO Ambassador to the UN in Geneva Ibrahim Khraishi said.

AUGUST 15, 2019ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Anti-Israel demonstrators at the World Conference on Racism in Durban, South Africa, in 2001; Muslim anti-Zionism is picking up from where Christian antisemitism left off.

Name: Becca Wertman, ID: Fighting boycotts

“I knew that the Canadian government and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had come out a number of times against BDS, even referring to the campaigns as a ‘new form of antisemitism in the world.’

JUNE 27, 2019ByJOSH ARONSON
Becca Wertman