Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting concerning issues in the Middle East, at U.N. headquarters in New York, Feb. 20, 2018. Abbas is also the head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization....
By Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS
• Published December 13, 2018
The U.N. General Assembly narrowly defeated a resolution last Thursday that would have condemned Hamas for its terror campaign against Israel. Three days later, a Palestinian gunman opened fire on a group of Jews waiting at a bus stop near the West Bank...
The United States has rightly withdrawn from the United Nations Human Rights Council, with U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley calling it a “cesspool of political bias.” She added, accurately, that the Geneva-based council is a “hypocritical and self-serving...
You didn’t read about it in the New York Times or hear about it on “CBS Evening News.” The European Union didn’t praise it, and the United Nations didn’t acknowledge it. But last week, Israel dismantled yet another Jewish settlement.Of course,...
Clearly, the United States has installed a new sheriff at its mission to the United Nations: Ambassador Nikki Haley, the former Republican governor of South Carolina.Not since Daniel Patrick Moynihan rose in 1975 to denounce the infamous General Assembly...
Who is to blame?On Dec. 23, the United Nations pulled out all of its anti-Semitic and anti-Israel ammunition and passed Resolution 2334, a very one-sided, biased, and inaccurate statement. For decades the United States vetoed anti-Semitic U.N. resolutions...
With the passing of U.N. Resolution 2334 and the start of a new administration in Washington, we have seen a growing division among American Jews concerning Israel. This division is increasingly along partisan lines and proceeding with greater intensity....
Last week, the Jewish Community Relations Council of St. Louis (JCRC) sent out an email communication regarding the U.S. abstention on U.N. Security Council Resolution 2334 passed on Dec. 23. I would have expected our JCRC to strongly denounce the resolution...
It’s been hard to miss all of the Israel-related activity of the past week. The U.N. Security Council passed a one-sided resolution, from which the United States abstained. The next day Secretary of State John Kerry gave a lengthy speech directed primarily...
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published January 4, 2017
The polarization and vicious rhetoric on so many issues in 2016 made us feel like the middle was hollowing out of society. It seemed like everywhere, from the world stage to our Missouri backyard, people were lining up on opposite sides of a deep chasm,...
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published December 28, 2016
The world is still reeling from the surprise failure of the United States to veto a United Nations Security Council resolution last Friday, that strongly criticized Israel’s settlements in the West Bank and which broke with the longstanding usual habit...
In June, the Jewish Light reported the startling news that Israel had just been elected to chair the United Nations Legal Committee, the first time Israel was selected to head a U.N. permanent committee. Perhaps it is time to take another look at an...
