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Israel has taken the decisive and overdue step of immediately severing all ties with three more United Nations agencies and international bodies, as Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar has made abundantly clear.
The organizations in question are the so-called UN Alliance of Civilizations, UN Energy, and the Global Forum on Migration and Development. According to the Foreign Ministry, the UN Alliance of Civilizations "allegedly seeks to promote intercultural and inter-religious dialogue but has not invited Israel to participate, and has instead for years been used as a platform for attacks against Israel."
UN Energy, for its part, stands exposed as little more than a "wasteful organization [that] reflects the excessive and inefficient bureaucracy of the UN." Meanwhile, the Global Forum on Migration and Development "erodes the ability of sovereign nations to enforce their own immigration laws."
These latest measures follow Israel's earlier withdrawal from four other UN entities: the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children in Armed Conflict (severed in June 2024 after it blacklisted the IDF), UN Women (which ignored "all cases of sexual violence committed against Israeli women on Oct. 7th, 2023," prompting Israel to cease cooperation in July 2024), UNCTAD (which "authored dozens of virulent anti-Israel reports," from which Israel has long been disengaged), and ESCWA (which "issues virulent anti-Israel reports annually, and serves as a basis for further anti-Israel resolutions").
The pattern is unmistakable. Year after year, these bodies, cloaked in the language of neutrality and human rights, have served as reliable vehicles for hostility toward the Jewish state. Israel, quite rightly, has grown weary of pretending otherwise.
Time for a UN divorce.
This latest decision comes in the wake of similar moves by the United States, which has withdrawn from dozens of international organizations riddled with the same pathologies. Foreign Minister Sa'ar has instructed the Foreign Ministry to examine, in consultation with relevant government ministries when necessary, the continued cooperation between Israel and other such bodies. Further decisions, the ministry confirms, will follow.
And then there is good ol' UNRWA.
This latest decision comes in the wake of similar moves by the United States, which has withdrawn from dozens of international organizations riddled with the same pathologies. Foreign Minister Sa'ar has instructed the Foreign Ministry to examine, in consultation with relevant government ministries when necessary, the continued cooperation between Israel and other such bodies. Further decisions, the ministry confirms, will follow.
And then there is good ol' UNRWA.
Earlier this month, Israel passed new legislation, Bill 6786-2025, cutting off electricity, water, and communications to UNRWA facilities. The Knesset approved the measure in its third and final reading with 59 votes in favor and only seven against. MK Boaz Bismuth, chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, introduced the bill by calling UNRWA a "partner in terrorism" and a "terrorist organization." He spoke plainly of UNRWA's participation in the October 7 massacre and declared that "UNRWA has for years been posing as an aid agency when, in fact, it is an arm of Hamas – terrorists in disguise under the auspices of the United Nations."
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UNRWA, predictably, denounced the move as "outrageous and illegal." But the truth has a way of cutting through the noise. When an agency that was meant to alleviate suffering instead perpetuates conflict and shelters those who commit atrocities, the time for polite cooperation has long passed.
Israel's actions are not impulsive. They are the sober recognition that many of these international institutions have become little more than platforms for moral inversion and diplomatic theater.
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UNRWA, predictably, denounced the move as "outrageous and illegal." But the truth has a way of cutting through the noise. When an agency that was meant to alleviate suffering instead perpetuates conflict and shelters those who commit atrocities, the time for polite cooperation has long passed.
Israel's actions are not impulsive. They are the sober recognition that many of these international institutions have become little more than platforms for moral inversion and diplomatic theater.
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