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ANALYSIS: The growing anger of Iran's election to the UN General Assembly’s Committee on Disarmament and International Security

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2GNCCYG New York, USA. 24th Sep, 2021. Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier addresses the 76th General Debate of the UN General Assembly at United Nations (UN) Headquarters. The 76th General Debate of the UN General Assembly is taking place this week. Some 80 heads of state and government are taking part. Steinmeier is the first German President to address the UN General Assembly in almost 40 years. The first and so far only Federal President to appear before the UN body was President Carstens in 1983. Credit: Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa/Alamy Live News

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Iran's election to UN role a 'disgrace' says Israel

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UN marks first 'Nakba Day' as Israel urges countries to boycott

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The UN must dismiss its 'Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories’

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Saudi Arabia blocks Israeli delegation from attending UN awards ceremony

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Top UN human rights official accused of 'extreme' anti-Israel bias

Craig Mokhiber has tweeted that Israel is conducting 'ethnic cleansing' of Palestinians and vocally supports the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions movement

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Top UN human rights official accused of 'extreme' anti-Israel bias

UN Mid-East envoy warns that Israelis and Palestinians are 'on the brink'

Tor Wennesland calls for international diplomacy to prevent further violence

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UN Mid-East envoy warns that Israelis and Palestinians are 'on the brink'

Israel diverts funding from the PA and gives it to terror victims instead

The move comes after the PA appealed to the International Court of Justice

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UN official denies 'Jewish lobby' comments were antisemitic

Francesca Albanese condemned 'politically-motivated attacks against my mandate'

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December 18, 2022 13:40

UN official denies 'Jewish lobby' comments were antisemitic

PM pledges UK support to Israel in key UN vote

The prime minister also confirmed that he will be visiting Israel next year for its 'landmark' 75th birthday

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PM pledges UK support to Israel in key UN vote

UK Ambassador to UN urges 'meaningful dialogue' as West Bank tensions escalate

Dame Barbara Woodward told a UN Security Council Debate that 'urgent' action was needed

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UK Ambassador to UN urges 'meaningful dialogue' as West Bank tensions escalate

Human rights course in Geneva taught by anti-Israel UN commissioner

The course will focus on holding Member States accountable on human rights, and will include “anecdotes from the experience of the lecturers”

By Daniel Ben-David

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Paris, FRANCE: Miloon Kothari, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing attends a press conference, 29 January 2007 in Paris, at the "Ministry of Crisis Housing", based in a building occupied since the end of December 2006 by three associations: MACAQ (Movement for Cultural and Artistic District Activities), Black Thursday and DAL (Right For a House). Kothari, who was in the capital to attend an OCDE meeting, prolonged his visit non officially to "better understand", he said, the housing situation in France. AFP PHOTO BERTRAND GUAY (Photo credit should read BERTRAND GUAY/AFP via Getty Images)

UN Commission of Inquiry declares Israeli occupation illegal, seeks ICJ opinion

The 28-page report makes no mention of Hamas, terrorism, or rockets fired at Israeli civilians

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A French member of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) stand to attention as he holds up the United Nations flag during a ceremony for the French contingent in their base in the southern town of Deir Kifa on March 28, 2012. France is planning to reduce its UNFIL force members by some 400 soldiers. AFP PHOTO/MAHMOUD ZAYYAT (Photo credit should read MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP/Getty Images)

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Lapid came to America — and nobody noticed

An Israeli PM visiting is usually big news but Lapid slipped in and out of New York barely noticed by most in the US

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NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 22: Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid gives a speech during the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at U.N. headquarters on September 22, 2022 in New York City. After two years of holding the session virtually or in a hybrid format, 157 heads of state and representatives of government are expected to attend the General Assembly in person. (Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

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UN rewards for Tehran regime insult its victims

Iran's election to UN role a 'disgrace' says Israel

This is a new low, even for the United Nations

UN marks first 'Nakba Day' as Israel urges countries to boycott

The UN must dismiss its 'Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories’

Fury as Amnesty oppose adoption of IHRA antisemitism definition

Saudi Arabia blocks Israeli delegation from attending UN awards ceremony

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