The relationship between Israel and the United Nations has a long and complicated history. In the days of the founding of Israel, the United Nations served as a great platform for Zionism to obtain wide recognition of the Jewish people’s right to self-determination.
Yet over time, its various bodies became a platform to attack, delegitimize and demonize the Jewish state, as well as to deny Jews the very right it once recognized. From UNESCO to the Human Rights Council, representatives of authoritarian and non-democratic countries turned the United Nations into a battleground in which Israeli and American diplomats constantly have to fight for Israel. “The latest round of such battle is happening under the guise of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, in which anti-Zionist and antisemitic opinions are institutionalized,” said JNS.
