The UN’s War on Jewish Success ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Thursday, April 03, 2025

The UN’s War on Jewish Success

(This is a continuation of my "Unified Field Theory of Antisemitism" series.)

Jews have been accused of the worst crimes of each era: killing God, poisoning wells, controlling governments, staging world wars.

Today the accusations are just as ludicrous, but they are mounted faster than ever. Perhaps the most visible source of antisemitism today is the international community and non-governmental organizations.

Since the United Nations was created, the world has gone through phases of condemning highly publicized crimes - and sooner or later, Israel gets accused of the same crimes.

Colonialism changed from acceptable to criminal in the years after World War II. The Arab nations accused Israel of colonialism before Israel even existed. Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam, the chairman of the Arab League, said to the Anglo American Commission in 1946, "The Zionist, the new Jew, wants to dominate and he pretends that he has got a particular civilizing mission with which he returns to a backward, degenerate race in order to put the elements of progress into an area which wants no progress. Well, that has been the pretension of every power that wanted to colonize and aimed at domination."

Racism became the new evil in the 1960s, with the civil rights era. By 1975, UN passed a resolution declaring Zionism a form of racism.

In the 1980s, states began sanctions against South Africa for its apartheid policies. The 2001 Durban conference, organized during the 1990s, accused Israel of apartheid

More recently, the number of accusations against Israel have turned into a tsunami: if white supremacism is bad, then Israel must be guilty of "Jewish supremacism." If genocide is the ultimate evil, then Israel must be guilty of that heinous crime.

It was not only UN resolutions that have been hijacked just to be used as ammunition against Israel. International law itself has been changed just for Israel and Israel alone. The Rome Statute changed language from the Geneva Conventions to apply specifically to Israeli settlements - and in doing so it elevated the status of Jews building homes on their ancestral homeland, the most anti-colonial act one can imagine, into a war crime.

The UN Commission on Human Rights became increasingly anti-Israel year after year. From the 1970s through 2002, fully one third of its country-specific resolutions were directed at Israel, while it ignored the worst violators of human rights. In 2002, during the height of the spree of terror attacks that was murdering hundreds of Israelis, it passed a resolution not to condemn Palestinian suicide bombers but to affirm the "legitimate right of the Palestinian people to resist the Israeli occupation." The world's human rights body all but legitimized terror.

The UNCHR was disbanded in 2006, not because of its anti-Israel focus but because it consistently elected members of the worst human rights violators, including Sudan during its ethnic cleansing in Darfur. The two are related, though: when anti-Israel and pro-terror policies become normalized by international bodies, it never ends there.

The UNCHR's replacement, the United Nations Human Rights Council, is even worse. Beyond its massively disproportionate obsession with Israel in its resolutions, it also has a standing item on its agenda, item 7, dedicated to criticizing Israel. No other nation has such an item. Moreover, in 2021 the UNHRC established a permanent Commission of Inquiry (COI) against Israel that is the first and only such COI that has no time limit. Millions of dollars are spent every year by this commission alone.

The UN works closely with non governmental organizations. Human rights organizations like Amnesty and Human Rights Watch share the UN's obsession with Israel, dedicating more and larger reports accusing Israel of more crimes than any other nation over time. Amnesty's report on mass murders, rapes and displacements of civilians in Darfur in 2016 was only slightly longer than their report condemning Airbnb for allowing listings of Jewish-owned homes in Judea and Samaria in 2019. Their priorities are immoral.

There is literally no aspect of human existence that is not weaponized against Israel. The Palestinians have signed international treaties that they admit they have no interest in upholding but their meetings are ideal places to attack Israel for its supposed violations of environmental rights, women's rights, children's rights, preserving the oceans. The world soccer federation FIFA is forced by their rules to debate Israel's membership endlessly at the behest of Israel's enemies.

Institutions like the UN and major NGOs promote a universalist vision of global norms that are meant to override and supersede traditional notions of national sovereignty. They say that they must to this to enforce minimal human rights standards, but the examples of major human rights violators that can force their own agendas on world bodies prove that politics trumps the honesty, fairness and equality they claim to be fighting for.

Their disproportionate focus on Israel reveal more than this, though. Once you look past their distortions and lies, it becomes clear that Israel is a shining success story of human rights and of liberal ideals. It is especially impressive given the constant war footing forced on the Jewish state. Israel's ability to maintain its security in the face of international laws that are applied to it alone; its ability to provide equal rights to its Arab minority, its heroic attempts to minimize civilian casualties among its enemies under the most difficult wartime circumstances any Western nation ever faced, shows that it isn't Israel's failings that cause such unbridled hate - but Israeli success.

The UN and NGOs have utterly failed to change the attitudes and activities of the worst human rights violators. The are not merely impotent in the face of the crimes against humanity - they tacitly accept them.

Meanwhile, a particularist Jewish state succeeds where even the most admired countries fail. This Jewish and Israeli success is a threat to their philosophy.

Nearly every nation in the Middle East declare themselves to be Arab and/or Muslim states without any concern from the UN and NGOs. They consider the Jewish state, however, to be a violation of their ideals. The reason isn't because of Israel's self-definition but because of Israel's success at building a society of equal rights for all its citizens - something that these self-declared moral arbiters cannot accept.