The UN Sides With Hamas
In its charter, the United Nations swears to “maintain international peace and security” and “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.” So why has it sided with Hamas against Israel? The office of the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights took to X this week to indirectly accuse the Jewish state of war crimes. Ever since Hamas began the conflict with its barbaric mass rape, slaughter and kidnapping of Israeli civilians, the United Nations has demanded a cease-fire — i.e., Israel unilaterally stops attacking in exchange for zero concessions from Hamas.
The General Assembly rejected a resolution to condemn Hamas for the savage attacks; indeed Secretary-General Antonio Guterres justified the terror atrocities that killed 1,400 by saying they “did not happen in a vacuum.”
This is nothing new. The UN specializes in condemning the Jewish state. In some cases for defending itself from Palestinian terror; in others — such as its notorious 1975 “Zionism is racism” General Assembly resolution — merely for existing.
Consider morally wretched absurdities like the recent appointment of Iran — where women are beaten to death by governmentsanctioned brute squads for failing to cover their hair — to chair a body within the Human Rights Council.
If the United Nations wanted peace, it would not back Hamas, which is still — along with Hezbollah and the Houthis — launching rockets at Israeli civilians.
A Hamas rocket struck an Israeli kindergarten Friday. Where are the thunderous calls for that to stop?
Imagine a world where the United Nations threatened to cut off aid to Hamas unless it released the hostages it’s holding. They’d walk free the next day.
Sadly, that’s beyond imagining. The body is institutionally anti-Israel, anti-democracy and anti-America. It may be time, in other words, for the United States — the largest single UN funder — to turn off the tap absent a dramatic change.
No more pretense that Hamas and Israel are morally equivalent, that America is Iran’s mirror image — or that free, democratic nations must kowtow to the butchers and jailers of the world.