The speaker of Iran’s parliament said that his nation must confront the United States and prepare “a plan for the launch of a nuclear plant for enrichment,” Iranian media reported on Wednesday. Speaker Ali Larijani said that his parliament “is warning the US administration and its House of Representatives and...

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A school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency hid a map depicting what it referred to as “historic Palestine” — a territory that encompasses Israel — on the occasion of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s visit to the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. The map, draped with a white sheet, was visible in photos...

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During his final trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories as Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon emphasized that peace can only come through “direct negotiations” between the two parties. “No solution can come through violence, it must be based on mutual respect and the recognition of the legitimate...

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The United Nations’ bias against Israel has meant that the international organization “has lost credibility, lost common sense, and more than anything lost its most important asset – its integrity,” former Israeli finance minister Yair Lapid said in a speech Monday night. Lapid, the leader of the centrist Yesh Atid party, the...

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The likely murder in January 2015 of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who was investigating Iran’s role in Argentina’s worst-ever terror attack while Iran was negotiating to have United Nations sanctions lifted, “arguably most benefited Iran” as it stopped Nisman’s investigation before he was able to fully disclose his findings to the Argentine government or the UN, a report...

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A United Nations commission ruled on Thursday that ISIS is committing genocide against the persecuted Yazidi religious minority in Syria, The New York Times reported. “Genocide has occurred and is ongoing”, Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, the chairman of the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, told reporters. “ISIS has...

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At least four Arab nations voted in favor of Israel’s successful and historic candidacy to head a major United Nations committee, the pan-Arab newspaper Al-Quds al-Arabi reported earlier this week. Committee chairs are normally approved by consensus, but Danon’s candidacy, sponsored by the Western Europe and Others group of UN members, was protested by...

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The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is hardly an outlet of Israeli hasbara. Indeed, the headline finding of its latest “Fragmented Lives: Humanitarian Overview 2015” report makes its stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict quite plain: “the Israeli occupation,” says the press release, “is the “main trigger...

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While human rights are violated worldwide and thousands have been killed in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen, only Israel “has its record inspected at every single session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC),” the Associated Press reported Monday. From all the nations in the world, only Israel is subject to a permanent agenda...

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Israeli food products with Hebrew labeling have been delivered to a displaced persons camp near the rebel-controlled Syrian city of Quneitra, the Syrian news website Zaman al-Wasl reported Thursday. The food was distributed via Jordan, the report said, adding that this was not the first time this had occurred. The extreme need for aid in...

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