Anti-Israel hatred at the United Nations has long been noted by those who love the Jewish state. However, it’s important for Christians to understand that hatred of Israel not only makes the UN antisemitic, it also places the UN in opposition to God.
Anti-Israel attitudes at the United Nations have been growing stronger over the years to the point where it is not just the view being expressed by individual countries or groups of countries, but is part of the very fabric of the organisation.
This week a clear example of this happened when the UN’s exhibition for terrorist victims failed to mention a single Israeli victim. It is absurd to thing that less than a year on from the 7 October attacks, which is estimated to be the second largest terror attack in history after 9/11, is not even acknowledged by the UN. Furthermore, no Israelis are mentioned. Not the Munich Massacre of 1972, when Israeli athletes were brutally murdered by Palestinian terrorists at the Olympic Games, or the deadliest terror attack in South American history, the AMIA bombing, when a Palestinian terrorist blew himself up and killed 85 innocent people, mostly Jews and Israelis. None of these victims were mentioned because they were Israelis.
“There’s not a single mention of any attack carried out by Palestinians against Israelis,” Gilad Erdan, Israel’s Ambassador to the UN said. “We are about to mark one year since the massacre and the largest terrorist attack against Jews and Israelis since the Holocaust. Yet the UN doesn’t think it needs to be displayed on its walls.”
There is a display of a “Palestinian victim,” which the UN exhibit identifies as occurring in “Palestine,” Erdan noted, “so that people might think she was harmed in Israel, but when you read the fine print, it turns out she was actually injured in an attack in New Zealand.”
The UN is no longer hiding its Israel hatred, it is plain for everyone to see. But Israel has been disproportionately singled out by the main bodies of the United Nations for decades, particularly in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and the Human Rights Council (UNHRC). For example, in 2020 alone, the UNGA adopted 17 resolutions against Israel, compared to only 6 targeting other countries combined. This lopsided focus on Israel suggests a deeper issue than mere political disagreement; it hints at an institutionalized bias.
The IHRA definition of antisemitism highlights “applying double standards by requiring of it [Israel] a behaviour not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation,” is antisemitic.
That’s exactly what the UN is doing.
The UNHRC has a permanent agenda item (Item 7) focused exclusively on Israel. No other nation, no matter how egregious its human rights record, is singled out in this way. This obsessive scrutiny is disproportionate and indicative of a deeper animosity toward the Jewish state.
The UN’s disproportionate focus on Israel, to the exclusion of genuine human rights abuses in other parts of the world goes against the very tenets of the UN’s aims. Their antisemitism is blinding them from being effective in other areas.
“The UN’s obsession with Israel is well documented. The UN continues to be the epicenter of antisemitism.”– Mike Pompeo (Former US Secretary of State)
The Bible is clear that God will bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel. The UN is cursing itself with every condemnation of Israel. It is cursing itself every time it ignores Israel’s victims of terror. God loves the Jewish people, and He will not look away when His people are treated this way.
We should also be clear that opposition to Israel is not the same as opposing other nations. Israel is the only nation on earth that was established by God. Indeed, Psalm 83 reveals that those who conspire against Israel are not merely opposing the world’s only Jewish state (which in and of itself is a bad enough) but they are also rebelling against God Himself.
‘”They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” For they have consulted together with one consent; They form a confederacy against You:’ – Psalm 83:4-5
The Psalmist could be writing about the UN today. They are a confederacy against Israel and God.
The UN is actively working against God’s plans and purposes. It is highlighted most strongly with how it treats Israel and it is apparent at every level of the organisation.
Zechariah 2:8 warns, “For he who touches you touches the apple of His eye.” The UN, in persistently attacking Israel, is placing itself in opposition to God, which is a dangerous and spiritually perilous position.
