“Let my people go!” It’s time to liberate Israel from the oppression of the UN

Tomorrow night, Pesach begins. The Jewish people celebrate God’s liberation of His people from oppression in Egypt. Today, the Jewish people need to be liberated from the oppression in the United Nations.

The United Nations works on the principle of “one state, one vote”. There are 193 member states. UN General Assembly Resolutions require a simple majority. Important issues, including many of those on Israel/Palestine, require a two-thirds majority – ie. 129 votes required.

A majority of UN member states hold to official policies that are anti-Western. A significant number of states do not even recognize Israel’s existence. And some (such as Iran and Turkey, and states in their sphere of influence) officially seek to eliminate the Jewish state.

First there are the five regional groups. Israel was not accepted into any of these groups – until 2014 when it finally became a member of the “Western European and Others” group (WEOG). In other words, Israel was until very recently not even acknowledged as a full member of the UN. Then there are several ideologically driven groups that are responsible for drafting and sponsoring anti-Israel resolutions in the UN. The most influential are the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the Arab League, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Group of 77, and the African Union. Even the European Union over the last 50 years has adopted increasingly pro-Palestinian policies that criticize Israel in harsh terms.

“A majority of UN member states hold to official policies that are anti-Western.”

Over the last two years, these blocks of nations have collaborated to adopt a strategy of using the General Assembly to weaponize the International Court of Justice (the UN’s highest judicial institution) to issue opinions and rulings that attack Israel’s right to secure borders and self-defence.

Remarkably, many of these resolutions were adopted after the invasion of Israel by Hamas and other Islamist extremist groups on October 7^th 2023. It is quite clear that the physical attacks on Israel from Gaza, Lebanon and the West Bank are coordinated, and that those driving those attacks (especially the revolutionary regime in Iran) are also behind the attacks on Israel in the UN and international courts.

Significantly, there is also an informal group of nations who are increasingly willing to make a stand against this manipulation of the international legal system. They include: the United States, Argentina, Hungary, Czech Republic, Italy, Albania, and Fiji and several other Pacific Island nations.

On 19 July 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) fulfilled the request of the UN General Assembly (Res. 77/247) to render an Advisory Opinion about “Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem”. In a one-sided Advisory Opinion in July 2024, a majority of members of the Court declared Israel’s presence in East Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip to be “illegal”. This (non-binding) opinion rewards the Palestinians (as proxies of Islamist radical groups and Iran) for using violence instead of negotiating and threatens the UN’s primary objectives of maintaining world peace and security.

“These are politically-driven resolutions that totally ignore the massive problem presented by extreme Islamist terrorism.”

Since then, the UN has adopted resolutions to push for establishment of a Palestinian state in the entirety of those territories. UNGA Resolutions ES-10/24 (September 2024) and A/79 L/23 (November 2024) seek to compel Israel to withdraw its military and civilian presence from the “Occupied Palestinian Territory”, and to effectuate the speedy realization of a Palestinian state in fulfilment of the “two state solution”. They call on all member states to support these demands by applying pressure on Israel through legal, diplomatic and economic measures. Resolution A/79 L/23 calls for an international conference to implement the “two states solution” in New York in June 2025.

These are politically-driven resolutions that totally ignore the massive problem presented by extreme Islamist terrorism—not only for Israel, but for regional and global stability and security. They proceed from a number of false legal assumptions. And they ignore the culture of corruption and the influence of radical Islamism within the Palestinian society and institutions – including the Palestinian Authority.

All of the above is in addition to the cases against Israeli leaders at the International Criminal Court (ICC), and the “genocide” cases that have been brought against Israel in the ICJ. The main genocide one is the case that South Africa brought against Israel in December 2023 under the Genocide Convention. South Africa has strong links with Hamas, and there is significant evidence that it was financed by Iran to bring the case to the ICJ. A recent report by ISGAP concludes: “South Africa’s anti-Israel stance, culminating in its application to the ICJ, is part of a politically motivated maneuver that is both lacking in merit and nurtured by its relations with Hamas, Qatar, and the Iranian regime.”

Let us pray this week for all the UN member states as they prepare for the conference in the UN in June 2025. May there be UN member states who will have the courage to stand up against the attacks on Israel’s existence as a Jewish state. Let us pray for the leaders of the nations, and for the Peace of Jerusalem, and the coming of the Prince of Peace. 

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