By Abdul Masih —
Because of its name, the United Nations holds a lot of weight. It is seen as official, unbiased, a referee who doesn’t take sides, who adheres to moral principles. Media can rely on U.N. data and expert opinions, right?
Actually, wrong. As the Israel-Hamas War has shown, the United Nations is anything but fair. In fact, it’s substantially anti-Israel, even while it lavishes love on such flagrant human rights violators as Iran.
Instead of providing trustworthy information, the U.N. “laundered” the exaggerations, misrepresentations and outright lies of Hamas, according to the Hoover Institution. Hamas lost the hot war but won the propaganda war, thanks to the U.N.:
- When Hamas accused Israel of genocide by famine, the U.N. parroted and even amplified outlandish claims.
- After an errant Hamas rocket fell on a Gaza hospital AND then Hamas blamed Israel, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres essentially backed up Hamas’s false claim calling it a “strike” and saying he was “horrified.”
- The U.N.’s Francesca Albanese published “Anatomy of a Genocide” on March 25, 2024 — a report that used the word “genocide” 57 times and not once mentioned “Hamas” or “terrorism.” The report failed to mention that Hamas started the war AND was holding hostages for hundreds of days after. No mention was made of Hamas’s documented use of human shields.
- U.N.’s agency UNRWA had on payroll participants in the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre.
- The U.N.’s UNIFIL didn’t appear to do anything to prevent Hezbollah’s arsenal buildup in Lebanon, and some say UNIFIL helped Hezbollah. From 2006, Hezbollah swelled its storage of rockets from 15,000 to 100,000. War tunnels and weapons caches were found near UNIFIL and U.N. posts.
- The U.N. legitimized death toll of 36,000 Gazans AND repeated the claim it was 70% women and children. Later, the death toll was downgraded by over 10,000, and the percentage of women and children was lowered to 54%.
- The U.N. Human Rights Council has condemned Israel 112 times, more than Syria, Iran, Russia and Venezuela combined.
In the Gaza War, the U.N. promoted a narrative that stoked anti-Israel hostility and whipped up international antisemitism.
By the time events and statistics get clarified, the public has seized upon, accepted and remembered the lies. No update comes to the mind and hearts of millions of people.
The United Nations is worse than careless, unreliable, error-prone or bureaucratically incompetent. Its hostile activism seeks to destroy Israel and favor the terrorists who would commit actual genocide.
