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Europe fails to stand up for the Druze in Syria and falls for Hamas propaganda

The widening strategic disconnect between Israel and many Western governments – and the inability even to agree on basic facts – is a deeply troubling development

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July 23, 2025 13:26

Smoke rises in the distance as Bedouin and other fighters gather in the city of Sweida in southern Syria's Druze majority province on July 19, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Israel refuses to renew UN humanitarian chief’s visa over ‘biased and hostile conduct’

Jonathan Whittall will leave the country ‘in the near future’ and will not be able to return unless a future application is approved, Israeli officials confirmed

By Jacob Jaffa

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July 21, 2025 10:48

Israel has declined to renew the visa of Jonathan Whittall, head of the UN's humanitarian office in Jerusalem (Image: X/@UNOCHA_ar)

By Jake Wallis Simons

The UN’s anti-Israel inquisition is falling apart – finally

All three commissioners of the UNHRC’s “permanent inquiry” into Israel have abruptly quit after their colleague Albanese was hit with UN sanctions. If it was so easy to get rid of them, why wasn’t action taken sooner?

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July 17, 2025 12:52

Navi Pillay, former chair of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory in Geneva, on June 18, 2025. (Image: Getty)

By Yaakov Katz

UNIFIL is a complete failure and needs to leave Lebanon

A force that turns a blind eye to Hezbollah while tying the hands of the IDF does not help prevent war; it is a recipe for it.

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July 15, 2025 13:55

UNIFIL soldiers in the Hezbollah stronghold of South Lebanon (Getty)

Trump administration sanctions Francesca Albanese for ‘unabashed antisemitism’

Albanese authored a report, released last week, accusing companies and organisations of being complicit in Israel’s so-called “genocide” in Gaza

By JC Reporter

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July 10, 2025 08:52

Francesca Albanese, the UN's top advisor on Palestine, has seemingly suggested that the LA wildfires and Gaza War are 'connected' (Picture: Getty)

Google co-founder claims UN is ‘transparently antisemitic’ following report on tech firms’ role in Gaza War

Sergey Brin hit back at the global body’s claim that his company had profited from “genocide”

By Jacob Jaffa

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July 9, 2025 13:49

Google co-founder Sergey Brin claimed that the UN is 'transparently antisemitic' on an internal staff forum (Image: Getty)

Head of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation accuses UN of thwarting efforts to deliver aid

‘I'm surprised that something so simple as feeding people has become so controversial,’ GHF chairman Johnnie Moore said

By Imogen Garfinkel

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July 1, 2025 12:44

Johnnie Moore defended his foundation, saying 'most of the aid coming into the Gaza Strip right now is from us'. (Photo: Shannon Finney/Getty Images/Jewish News Syndicate)

By Jonathan Harounoff

From Devil’s Island to Gaza: Lies, rage and late corrections no one reads

When it comes to Israeli wars, truth is often the first casualty

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June 12, 2025 14:39

Truth bomb: the Al-Ahli hospital car park after it was hit by a rocket in October 2023. The media rushed to blame Israel but it later emerged the missile was fired by Palestinians (Image: Alamy)

UN accuses Israel of ‘extermination’ in Gaza over school strikes

A report from the global body’s inquiry into the Israel-Palestine conflict claimed that the Jewish State was engaged in a ‘concerted campaign to obliterate Palestinian life’

By Jacob Jaffa

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June 10, 2025 10:37

The UN has accused Israel of committing 'extermination' and trying to 'obliterate Palestinian life' in reference to IDF strikes on school facilities in Gaza (Pictured: The aftermath of an Israeli strike on the Yafa school building in Gaza City in April 2025; Image: Getty)

The numbers just don’t support the UN-backed Gaza famine report

UN-backed watchdog declares famine in Gaza City for first time

UN-backed watchdog lowers famine threshold in Gaza report

Hamas to be added to UN sexual violence ‘blacklist’

US terror victims sue Unrwa over alleged Hamas links

Nearly 90% of UN aid is intercepted before reaching intended recipients

Canada becomes third G7 nation to announce it will recognise Palestine at UN conference

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US terror victims sue Unrwa over alleged Hamas links

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UNIFIL is a complete failure and needs to leave Lebanon

Trump administration sanctions Francesca Albanese for ‘unabashed antisemitism’

Google co-founder claims UN is ‘transparently antisemitic’ following report on tech firms’ role in Gaza War

Head of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation accuses UN of thwarting efforts to deliver aid

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UN accuses Israel of ‘extermination’ in Gaza over school strikes