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July 3, 2026, 10:47 am

Shabbat Shalom: To Those Who Carried the Principles When Institutions Failed

For generations we believed that institutions would safeguard the principles upon which a civilised society depends. Increasingly, they have failed to do so

By Leo Pearlman

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

July 3, 2026, 10:34 am

Jewish groups plan to protest Ben-Gvir’s arrival in NYC. Will he show?

Israeli and UN officials tell JTA that the controversial national security minister has not made plans to come as of now

By Joseph Strauss JTA

Jonathan Harounoff, who will step down as Israel’s international spokesman to the United Nations on 1 July.

June 19, 2026, 5:29 pm

Jonathan Harounoff to leave top UN role after two years representing Israel

British-Iranian spokesman says giving a voice to hostages and Iranian dissidents was his proudest achievement at the UN

By Annabel Sinclair

May 28, 2026, 6:45 pm

UN places Israeli entities on sexual violence blacklist alongside Hamas

Israel freezes ties with UN Secretary-General’s office after move condemned as a “moral disgrace” by ambassador Danny Danon

By Annabel Sinclair

Jerusalem on VE Day, 1945 (United States Library of Congress)

March 17, 2026, 3:25 pm

The falsehood at the heart of the claim that ‘Britain gave away Palestine’

The claim now circulating in Westminster is not merely wrong, but a deliberate distortion, part of a decades-long campaign to rewrite history

By Gary Cohen

Jonathan Harounoff speaks at the Cambridge Union

December 2, 2025, 6:12 pm

I told Cambridge Union the truth about Palestine many did not want to hear

Jonathan Harounoff argued against a Cambridge Union motion last week that 'This House Believes that the international community has failed/betrayed Palestine'. Here is his speech

By Jonathan Harounoff

Food aid is delivered to displaced people in Zamzam camp in North Darfur. Photo Credit: WFP/Mohamed Galal

November 3, 2025, 12:55 pm

Why is Israel condemned while far greater horrors go unseen?

UN hyperbole over Gaza contrasts starkly with near silence on Darfur and Syria’s mass atrocities

By Alex Brummer

UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl at a Gaza school. A new UN Watch report accuses Hamas of infiltrating UNRWA’s education system. Photo Credit: Wissam Nassar/dpa/Alamy Live News

September 25, 2025, 4:09 pm

Report exposes Hamas infiltration of UNRWA schools in Gaza and Lebanon

New investigation claims Hamas chiefs held senior UNRWA posts, turning classrooms into “incubators of hate”

By Annabel Sinclair

September 22, 2025, 9:22 am

OPINION: The United Nations of capitulation

Recognising a Palestinian state at this juncture sets the precedent that violence and terror are rewarded at the world’s highest stage

By Jonathan Harounoff

A Jewish Yemenite family crossing a desert to leave the country, 1949 (National photo collection of Israel)

September 17, 2025, 4:46 pm

OPINION: 99 percent of Jews from Arab lands were forced to leave. The world must hear us

One of the largest examples of ethnic cleansing in modern history is barely acknowledged and hardly known about

By Dr Stanley Urman

l-r, Chris Sidoti, Navi Pillay, Miloon Kothari

September 16, 2025, 11:34 am

Israel condemns ‘distorted and false’ UN Commission accusation of genocide

The three members of the commission announced their resignations in July to take effect later this year, reportedly to try and avoid US sanctions

By Jewish News Reporter

The UN's General Assembly Hall (Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Basil D Soufi)

August 8, 2025, 3:37 pm

OPINION: What really happened at the UN last week?

Avi Meyerstein argues that the proposals at the recent UN conference on the two-state solution should be engaged with by Israel and Jews worldwide - not rejected

By Avi Meyerstein

July 29, 2025, 5:16 pm

Saudis slam door on Israel ties without Palestinian state

Riyadh rules out normalisation while Gaza burns, insisting statehood is the only path to peace

By Annabel Sinclair

View of Iran’s nuclear facility. Photo Credit: Wikipedia / Hamed Saber (CC BY 2.0)

July 16, 2025, 11:33 am

UK, France and Germany set August deadline to restore Iran UN sanctions

European powers warn they’ll trigger “snapback” unless Tehran makes real nuclear progress

By Annabel Sinclair

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese

July 10, 2025, 9:10 am

US announces sanctions against controversial UN Special Rapporteur

Francesca Albanese, a vehement critic of Israel whose past statements include mention of a 'Jewish lobby', has held her current role since 2022

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