An Iranian helicopter pilot who defected to Turkey last year has threatened to move to Israel and work against the Iranian government if it does not stop harassing his wife and son, the Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. Maj. Ahmad-Reza Khosravi, who flew for the Iranian Security Service, told the Times that he fled Iran after...

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Former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton rejected the idea of having the United Nations impose a peace deal on Israel and the Palestinians in an interview published Monday in the New York Jewish Week. Gary Rosenblatt, editor of the Jewish week, wrote that the positions Clinton shared in the interview...

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Last month, while visiting refugee camps in southern Algeria, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described Morocco’s 1975 annexation of Western Sahara as “occupation.” In doing so, he broke an unspoken UN rule. Allegations of occupation are not used when describing China’s relationship with Tibet, nor Russia’s relationship with Ukraine, nor...

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A United Nations office has coordinated the donation of millions of dollars to NGOs that are highly critical of Israel, and has helped those groups disseminate their information, a new report by the watchdog group NGO Monitor has documented. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is responsible for “bringing...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday in a video address at the AIPAC Policy Conference that given the UN’s “shameful record” of bias against Israel, the United States must reject any UN-backed plan to impose a negotiation framework for Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. Netanyahu pointed out that Israel is the only country that is “permanently...

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The European Union and the United Nations have delayed any decision to impose sanctions on Iran after the Islamic Republic and its allies argued that its ballistic missile tests last week don’t violate the UN Security Council resolution that implemented last year’s nuclear deal, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Monday. Russian Ambassador to...

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Iranian civil life has been marked by an increase in executions, a “widening crackdown” on freedoms, the disqualification of thousands of candidates for public office, and ongoing discrimination against minorities and women, the UN’s investigator into the human rights situation in Iran reported Thursday. UN rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed’s report (.pdf) covered executions, freedom of expression,...

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JNS.org – Samantha Power, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, this week sounded an unusually strong—and therefore welcome—warning about the continuing bias against Israel in the corridors of the world body. On a visit to Israel, Power spoke publicly about the experience of ZAKA, an Israeli humanitarian aid...

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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power blasted the UN on Monday for its systemic prejudice against Israel, saying that “bias has extended well beyond Israel as a country [to] Israel as an idea.” Speaking before a model UN at a school in Even Yehuda in Israel, Power pointed out that “Israel is just not treated like...

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Hamas, the Iran-backed terrorist group that rules the Gaza Strip, has prohibited a senior United Nations official from leaving Gaza, the Associated Press reported Thursday. A UN source told the AP that Mahmoud Daher, the head of the World Health Organization’s Gaza office, was barred from exiting the strip due to a newly-instituted bureaucratic rule. Hamas, which has ruled...

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