“The United Nations,” Eleanor Roosevelt said shortly after its founding, “is our greatest hope for future peace.” The UN was birthed from the most cataclysmic war in modern history—a war in which the genocide of world Jewry was an animating feature of the West’s enemies. But nearly eight decades later the UN is a collaborator in another attempted genocide of Jews.
Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that instead of bringing peace, the United Nations has brought murder and terror to the land of Israel. These are strong words, but the evidence bears them out.
On November 4, 2024, the Israeli Foreign Ministry informed the UN that it was withdrawing from the 1967 agreement recognizing the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA). The move came after the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, passed legislation to curtail the UNRWA’s operations in Israel, the West Bank (Judea and Samaria), and the Gaza Strip.
(Read the rest of CAMERA’s Nov. 22, 2024 Op-Ed at Providence Magazine)