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My Word: Guterres and the gutless United Nations

Israel is never far from the UN spotlight as the 'bad guys,' while an entire department is dedicated to promoting the Palestinian narrative.

The United Nations Security Council meets on the situation in the Middle East at UN headquarters in New York City, on February 18.
Israel begins dismantling UNRWA facility, January 20, 2026.

‘Unacceptable’: Eleven foreign ministers condemn Israel over UNRWA HQ demolition

View of the Temple Mount (Al Aqsa mosque) in Jerusalem's Old City, November 19, 2025.

Re-liberating Jerusalem: Why Israel must assert sovereignty over its capital, now - opinion

 Members of the United Nations peacekeepers (UNIFIL) look at the Lebanese-Israeli border, as they stand on the roof of a watch tower ‏in the town of Marwahin, in southern Lebanon, October 12, 2023.

UN spends approximately $100 million in funding to target Israel yearly, new report shows


Letters to the editor, May 12, 2025, Mendacious definition

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

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Pro-Palestinian shift: Expanding the Trump plan to 1948 refugees - opinion

Thanks to UNWRA, many descendants of Palestinians displaced in 1948 are still refugees throughout the Middle East.

 PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY President Mahmoud Abbas holds up maps of the Palestinian compromise, addressing the UN Security Council, in 2020. But after the 1947 Partition Plan, local Arab leaders encouraged Palestinian Arabs to flee, says the writer.

Millionaire refugees: The charged debate over UNRWA’s defining policy and its future

UNRWA AFFAIRS: Who qualifies as a Palestinian refugee? And should this status be inherited indefinitely – even by millionaires?

 TODAY, UNRWA’S registry lists over six million refugees. Here, a Palestinian woman walks past a wall bearing the agency’s logo at a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah in southern Gaza.

Ireland's badge of dishonor in its phony war with Israel - opinion

A week of escalating tensions in the Ireland-Israel phony war, marked by diplomatic clashes, embassy closure, and controversial statements.

 Relations between Israel and Ireland.

UNRWA schools in Gaza: Principals, staff identified as members in terror units - report

A new report highlights the involvement of UNRWA educational staff in Hamas militant activity, inflammatory and inciting ‘educational’ material.

 Twelve UNRWA school principals who are members of Hamas's military wing.

Are Israel’s new anti-UNRWA laws problematic to implement? - opinion

Though the motives behind the new legislation are certainly understandable and justifiable, perhaps a little more thought should be given to the actual implementation of the two new laws.

 Israeli soldiers operate next to the UNRWA headquarters, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in the Gaza Strip, February 8, 2024.

Israel voids UNRWA contract, orders agency shut in three months

The move was carried out following the law passed by the Knesset last week, which stipulated that Israel would sever all ties with UNRWA.

 A damaged sign is pictured at the headquarters of UNRWA, following an Israeli raid, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Gaza City, July 12, 2024.

Conservative party urges EU to cut funding for UNRWA, designate agency as terrorist org

Martín Frías urged the EU to show “clarity and determination” in addressing what he described as UNRWA’s “ongoing relationship with the terrorist group Hamas.”

 EU FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF Josep Borrell arrives to attend an EU-Israel Association Council in Brussels in 2022. ‘We really want to see Europe standing up and recognizing the right of Israel to protect itself,’ Szijjarto says.

Nine hours, 14 floors, enemies on all sides: IDF soldiers recount raid into URNWA facility in Gaza

By the time they reached the fifth floor, the situation intensified. An IED struck their armored vehicle, injuring some of the team members.

 IDF soldiers raiding a 14-story-tall building in an UNRWA facility in the Gaza Strip filled with Hamas terrorists, October 22, 2024.

Israel Land Authority to transform UNRWA complex into major housing development

The project to turn the UNRWA Jerusalem complex into over a thousand apartment units is underway, ILA announced.

 A damaged sign is pictured at the headquarters of UNRWA, following an Israeli raid, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Gaza City, July 12, 2024.