The UN has made no secret of its antagonism against the state of Israel. Its recurring anti-Israel resolutions speak for themselves. In May, 45 countries boycotted a UN Nakba Day event. Yet despite the UN’s animus toward Israel, the latest news about the UN’s denial of Jewish history for thousands of years, and denial of the continued Palestinian attacks against Israelis, shows that UN antisemitism has reached a new level.
“The UN’s History of the ‘Question of Palestine’ Omits Every Palestinian Attack on Jews,” United With Israel, August 13, 2023:
The UN has a webpage where it shows a timeline on the “Question of Palestine.”
It is extremely biased.
It starts with “1885 — The term ‘Zionism’ first coined by the Viennese writer, Nathan Birnbaum.”
There is no mention of Jewish history in the region for thousands of years. No mention of Jewish kingdoms. No mention of the centrality of Eretz Israel and Jerusalem to Judaism. No mention of the Bible.
But after that, it simply ignores or whitewashes every single act of terrorism by Palestine’s Arabs.
It doesn’t mention the murderous Palestinian pogrom against Jews in 1929.
It says, “1936/1939 — Palestinian rebellion against the British Mandate and Jewish immigration.” But not that Arabs murdered Jews, just that it was a “rebellion.”
It doesn’t say anything about the Arab League boycott of Jews.
It doesn’t mention any Arab attacks on Jews in 1947-48. No outbreak of hostilities hours after the UN Partition resolution, no mention of the constant attacks on Jewish civilians, no mention of the Hadassah Hospital convoy massacre, or the many other attacks on Jewish civilians — but it does mention Deir Yassin, and exaggerates the number of dead as “hundreds.”
There were scores of fedayeen attacks by Palestinian Arabs against Israel in the 1950s and 60s. Not one incident is mentioned.
But the UN describes the 1966 As-Samu incident, where Israeli and Jordanian troops battled after a land mine killed three IDF soldiers, as a “massacre” of Palestinians; 15 Jordanian soldiers and three civilians were killed. It was not a massacre by any definition.
There is not one mention of Palestinian airplane hijackings in the 1960s and 1970s…..
Donovan Nuera says
Any mention of the Palestinian Massacre of the Israeli Olympic Team in 1972 in Munich? I am not sure how ANYONE could overlook that.
I cannot wait until we move the UN HQ to with middle of Congo or CAR and out of New York.