A Catalog of (Recent) UN Atrocities

At Jewish World Review is a long-overdue call to dismantle the United Nations, by Melanie Phillips.

The most outstanding point of this article behind this call is how clearly and comprehensively it documents the misconduct of this evil organization since the October 7, 2022 pogrom in Israel.

I would guess that I have followed the news from Israel far more closely than the vast majority of my fellow non-Jewish Americans, and there were things I was unaware of. Here's one of them:

[A]s The Wall Street Journal reported this week, the U.N. official who tried to fight the world body's Orwellian hijack of the term "genocide" has now been forced out.

The United Nations has refused to renew the contract of Alice Wairimu Nderitu, the Kenyan special adviser on the prevention of genocide, because she has firmly maintained that Israel's war with Hamas is not genocide. She gave the world body a lesson in what genocide actually is. That was most definitely not what it wanted to hear.

The ensuing discussion will helpfully introduce the reader to a particularly execrable figure I did know about, but most probably won't: Francesca Albanese, the prolific "Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967," whose stand on the conflict is 180 degrees wrong.

There are parts I disagree with. For example, it unfortunately takes for granted the widespread notion that the aggressors in Gaza should receive aid shipments. That said it does put paid the ridiculous idea that Israel is committing a genocide by noting Gaza's wartime population increase.

This piece is otherwise, at less than five minutes of reading time, a good, short case for dismantling the UN on its disgraceful behavior concerning matters in the Middle East alone.

It is, alas, also at the same time only another brick in a very big wall Ayn Rand saw decades ago, for example, regarding its behavior during the Cold War, which prompted her to say:

When an institution reaches the degree of corruption, brazen cynicism and dishonor demonstrated by the U.N. in its shameful history, to discuss it at length is to imply that its members and supporters may possibly be making an innocent error about its nature -- which is no longer possible. There is no margin for error about a monstrosity that was created for the alleged purpose of preventing wars by uniting the world against any aggressor, but proceeded to unite it against any victim of aggression. The expulsion of a charter member, the Republic of China -- an action forbidden by the U.N.'s own Charter -- was a "moment of truth," a naked display of the United Nations' soul. [bold added]

And:

What would you expect from a crime-fighting committee whose board of directors included the leading gangsters of the community?

I completely agree with the author that "Standing against antisemitism means dismantling the United Nations." And ending antisemitism is itself part of the broader fight for the protection of the individual rights of everyone.

-- CAV