The brilliant move by Israel puts the notoriously anti-Israel UN in an awkward position. In 2023, the U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, “previewed the United States’ priorities for the 78th session of the UN General Assembly and, along with Ambassador Lipstadt, highlighted the United States’ efforts to counter antisemitism and anti-Israel bias at the […]
Was the Killing of Qusai Jamal Ma’atan a ‘Terror Attack’?
The Biden administration on Monday [August 21] equated Palestinian terrorist attacks to “settler violence” in a month when four Israelis have been gunned down in such attacks, three of them this week. More on this wrongheaded equivalence can be found here: “US equates Palestinian and settler terror as four Israelis gunned down,” by Tovah Lazaroff, […]
US supports Saudi appointment of envoy to Palestinians in Jerusalem, after Israel rejected it
It is up to Israel to accept the appointment in Jerusalem, which it has flatly rejected. It is also up to Israel to negotiate the terms of normalization with Saudi Arabia. As it stands, the Saudis demand that certain concessions to Palestinians be made first, which have also been ruled out by Israel. No other country […]
UN removes Islamic Republic of Iran from women’s rights panel
People are celebrating this, and that’s fine, but remember: the Islamic Republic of Iran didn’t just start oppressing women a few months ago. The Islamic Republic of Iran has always oppressed women. It was oppressing women when it was put on this women’s rights committee in the first place. So don’t start assuming that the […]
Biden: ‘We’re Gonna Free Iran’
New in PJ Media: Was Old Joe Biden signaling yet another expensive project for the already weary and overburdened American taxpayer? We’ve already forked over billions upon billions to free Ukraine, and now there’s another captive nation whose liberation we have to bankroll? And while we’re busy underwriting all this freeing of everyone else, who […]
Iran slams Russia’s Suspension from the UN Human Rights Council
Iran and Russia have been strengthening their alliance to evade American sanctions “and create a mutually beneficial black market.” At least 70 Iranian companies and 250 “big holding and influential Russian business people” attended a recent joint conference in order to work on ways to collaborate. It is to be expected that this powerhouse alliance […]
Biden Sends Nearly $1 Billion to Afghanistan Since Taliban Takeover
The Taliban’s greatest asset isn’t opium. It’s our foreign aid. Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Over two decades the United States and its international partners poured billions in humanitarian aid into Afghanistan. Much of that aid […]
American Ambassador to UN Deplores Sheikh Jarrah Evictions
On January 19, exactly one day before the UN adopted “by consensus” a resolution on the need to combat Holocaust Denial, the American Ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, deplored “unilateral steps” by both Israel and the Palestinian Authority, including “evictions.” A report on her speech to the UN Security Council is here: “US […]