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Photo: Volker Türk, UN Geneva (Flickr) - Reem Alsalem, UN Women (Flickr)
Philippe Lazzarini (UNRWA
Commissioner-General): Lazzarini has
repeatedly described Israel’s actions as
“genocide” and a “war crime,” and accused
Israel of using food as a weapon, while his
own organisation, UNRWA, employed dozens
of Hamas operatives and stored weapons in
its facilities. The links between Hamas and
UNRWA are extensive. In fact, the head office
of UNRWA was sharing power with a Hamas
base built directly below it. UNRWA staff
members took part in October 7th attacks,
including the kidnapping of Israelis, and there
are strong links to UNRWA’s school systems
being infiltrated with Hamas propaganda to
indoctrinate children to hate Israel.
Volker Türk (UN High Commissioner
for Human Rights): Türk claimed Israel bore
“significant blame” for Gaza’s famine risk
and might be guilty of war crimes. Again, he
made no mention of Hamas’s theft, hoarding,
reselling, or violent obstruction of aid, all
of which are hindering Israel’s attempts to
provide Palestinians with aid.
Craig Mokhiber, a now-resigned UN human
rights director, accused Israel of committing
a “textbook case of genocide” and called for
dismantling Israel’s “settler-colonial project.”
Firstly, language like this is effectively calling
for Israel’s destruction. Secondly, if Israel really
was committing a “textbook case of genocide,”
then why has the International Court of
Justice (ICJ) said that Israel isn’t committing
genocide? Why is the Irish government (which
is increasingly anti-Israel) trying to redefine the
meaning of the word ‘genocide’ if Israel was
committing genocide?
Anti-Israel hatred is part of the fabric of
the UN
Sadly, there are many anti-Israel and
antisemitic voices at the United Nations. It is
no wonder that the UN has been described
as the epicentre of global antisemitism and
the ‘theatre of the absurd,’ as Prime Minister
Netanyahu has called it in the past.
When the UN adopts the language
of genocide, blood libel, and Holocaust
inversion, and applies it exclusively to the
one Jewish state while ignoring the crimes of
Hamas, a real genocidal terrorist organisation,
it is no longer a neutral arbiter. It is actively
fuelling hatred.
As Bible-believing Christians, we
understand that we are living in the End
Times. We know that the nations are turning
against Israel, and it is apparent that the
United Nations is one way in which Satan
is turning hearts, minds, and entire nations
against Israel. We are seeing it play out before
our eyes.
“And it shall happen in that day that I
will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for
all peoples; all who would heave it away will
surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of
the earth are gathered against it.” (Zechariah
12:3)
The UN’s blood libel problem is a stain
on its moral authority, and a danger to
Jews everywhere. We may not be able
to change the UN, but we must raise
awareness so that Christians can pray for
Israel and the Jewish people around the
world and ensure that the Church is not
deceived by the UN’s lies.
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