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The world’s worst human rights violators just gathered in NYC to lecture Israel

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Kendis, S. (2026, September 25). The world’s worst human rights violators just gathered in NYC to lecture Israel. Washington Examiner. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4742565/un-general-assembly-anti-israel-hypocrisy/

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Washington Examiner · collected 2026-09-25 · by Sarah Kendis

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During the United Nations General Assembly high-level week in New York City, critics argue that while Israel faces intense scrutiny and criticism for its actions, representatives from countries with poor human rights records are also present but receive less attention. The article highlights instances where speakers like U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and King Abdullah II of Jordan accuse Israel of various wrongdoings while ignoring their own nations' shortcomings or historical roles in regional conflicts. The piece critiques this perceived hypocrisy and double standards, suggesting that such criticism disproportionately targets Israel despite similar issues elsewhere.
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Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, addressed the UN General Assembly on September 26, 2026, despite facing significant criticism and protests from both within and outside the assembly hall. Netanyahu accused New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani of supporting Hamas terrorists and called him a war criminal, threatening to expose Mamdani during his speech at the UN. Mamdani had previously vowed to arrest Netanyahu if he visited New York but later admitted that he lacked the authority to do so.

Netanyahu's appearance came amid growing international condemnation over alleged Israeli war crimes in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Over 70 countries boycotted Netanyahu’s speech, staging a walkout during his address to highlight their disapproval. However, according to Israel’s UN ambassador Danny Danon, more than 100 delegations actually stayed in the room.

The incident underscores Netanyahu's political isolation as he faces an upcoming election in October 2026 and declining support for Israel among US voters. Polls indicate a loss of faith in Netanyahu domestically, with sixty percent of Americans now having an unfavorable view of Israel compared to forty-two percent in 2022. Meanwhile, Israeli forces continued controversial actions such as dropping "skunk water" on Palestinians in Gaza and demolishing homes in the West Bank.

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🔮 The level of misplaced esteem and bursting ego to consider themselves worthy of dictating how another country defends itself would be fairly impressive if not so utterly destructive.
🔮 As the script demands, Israel and its prime minister are continually railed against as both a genocidal state and war criminals, yet the U.N. is perfectly willing to entertain genuine war criminals, and the TikTok “humanitarians” gathered outside couldn’t be less interested in their stateside presence.
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American Israel Jewish U.N. anti-Zionist

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Israel GPE · 10× American NORP · 3× U.N. ORG · 3× Hamas ORG · 2× Jewish NORP · 2× Jordan GPE · 2× Judea GPE · 2× Samaria GPE · 2× anti-Zionist NORP · 2× United Nations General Assembly ORG · 1×

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Then President Emmanuel Macron of France, the next hopeful addition to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, was eager to try his hand at the pile-on, claiming that Hamas does not operate in Judea and Samaria, a blatant falsehood that not only advertised a lack of international understanding of terrorism, but a lack of domestic understanding on how to keep his own country from falling into an immoral abyss.
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🔮 As the script demands, Israel and its prime minister are continually railed against as both a genocidal state and war criminals, yet the U.N. is perfectly willing to entertain genuine war criminals, and the TikTok “humanitarians” gathered outside couldn’t be less interested in their stateside presence.
2026-09-25 · Washington Examiner
The world’s worst human rights violators just gathered in NYC to lecture Israel · assertive framing

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It’s United Nations General Assembly high-level week, and you know what that means: high-level dignitary pageantry, high-level meetings on sensitive issues, high-level decision-making for universal matters, and high-level hate against one particular nation. asserted
that → ’ → nation
This week has been an absolute metaphor for the entire anti-Zionist movement, perfectly encapsulating both its internal ideology and external activism, and broadcasting all of its moral shortcomings on the world stage in a trifecta of glaring hypocrisy. asserted
week → encapsulate → hypocrisy
To start, the movement standard of double standards has been on display as bright as the city’s marquees. asserted
standard → start → marquees
As the script demands, Israel and its prime minister are continually railed against as both a genocidal state and war criminals, yet the U.N. is perfectly willing to entertain genuine war criminals, and the TikTok “humanitarians” gathered outside couldn’t be less interested in their stateside presence. asserted
humanitarians → demand → presence
All those representatives of nations without basic freedoms and civil rights, freely walking American streets, staying in American hotels, and benefiting from American protection are blindly ignored in favor of a singular, demented focus on that single sliver of the region actually upholding such necessities. asserted
representatives → walk → necessities
Because in the doubly inverse and perverse model reserved only for this region, Israel must be demonized and dehumanized for self-defense, while its surrounding second-rate states are infantilized and enabled to commit all the human offenses for which anti-Zionists feign to fight. asserted
Zionists → reserve → -
Moving inside the hypocritical headquarters, one next finds the inevitable anti-Zionist habit of confession through projection, where every accusation against Israel somehow always ends up being the admission of one’s own failings. asserted
accusation → move → failings
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made sure to get everyone assembled against the Jewish state in his opening remarks. asserted
everyone → make → remarks
Yet while blaming Israel for allegedly hindering peace efforts, he conveniently forgot that his very own U.N. quite literally fomented the violence of Oct. 7 that ended the previous ceasefire, as well as has historically promoted decades of conflict in the region. uncertain
that → blame → region
King Abdullah II of Jordan followed with the complaint that Israel forcibly seized Judea and Samaria, seemingly forgetting that Jordan itself forcibly seized that territory in 1948, and is the reason why most of the world has come to call that land the “West Bank” in the first place. asserted
most → follow → place
Not satisfied with ending there, Abdullah also accused Israel of violations against the Arabs in the territory, though his family’s kingdom ironically revoked Jordanian citizenship and rights from that very population decades before. asserted
kingdom → end → population
Next up was President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran, who, among a buffet of ranting, accused Israel of deliberately targeting innocent civilians and neighborhoods, when it is his own satanic regime that has and continues to target and murder civilians both abroad in Israel and fellow Islamic nations, as well as at home in their own streets. asserted
that → accuse → streets
Then President Emmanuel Macron of France, the next hopeful addition to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, was eager to try his hand at the pile-on, claiming that Hamas does not operate in Judea and Samaria, a blatant falsehood that not only advertised a lack of international understanding of terrorism, but a lack of domestic understanding on how to keep his own country from falling into an immoral abyss. asserted
that → try → abyss
Not to be outdone, the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani of Qatar, the penthouse for Hamas itself, defamed Israel as “a stain of shame on the conscience of humanity,” apparently lacking any personal shame whatsoever for funding tangible terrorism against Israel as well as promoting intangible ideology throughout Western society. asserted
Amir → outdo → society
And last, but certainly not least in irony, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey had no plans to let a little international conference contain him to reality, denouncing Israel of having a “genocidal mindset” despite his nation’s own, well, you know. asserted
you → have → nation
Which brings us to Netanyahu’s own assembly speech: nearly 40 minutes of refreshing, unabashed mic drops, with no need to mince words over stark facts, nor any desire to lower oneself for those who cannot handle one’s strength, let alone pure existence. asserted
who → bring → strength
Unfortunately, it was an extremely sparse crowd in attendance, as so many spineless delegates just could not seem to bring themselves to stay and listen to such resolve. uncertain
delegates → seem → resolve
Once again, the staged walkout was an impeccable demonstration not only of the uselessness of the U.N. itself, but the third facet of anti-Zionist hypocrisy: an inherent dependence on hollow performance, in which superficial theatrics are substituted for genuine action, and internal meaning is derived from meaningless external displays. asserted
meaning → stag → displays
Ironically, such a shallow show only ends up serving as a reflection of their own intolerance, rather than their projected idea of intolerance speaking at the podium. asserted
show → end → podium
But for those who rely on burying truth and uplifting libel as their preferred brand of activism, not one moment can ever be spared to be reminded of the damning reality that does exist and their own fantasy that does not. asserted
that → rely → reality
This never-ending tantrum of hypocrisy, projection, and performance continues to make one thing abundantly clear, and it’s not an indictment of Israel’s actions. asserted
it → end → actions
The entire sham of the anti-Zionist movement exists solely to mask its adherents’ own utter sham of basic humanity. asserted
sham → exist → humanity
It compulsively virtue signals to the world to distract from its intrinsic ethical inadequacy. asserted
It → signal → inadequacy
It assigns lies to others of which only it is guilty. asserted
it → assign → which
It allows and condones horrific crimes against its population in order to excuse and promote crimes against others. asserted
It → allow → others
All in the effort to hide its uniting core that, under the veneer of empathy and altruism, lies a vacuum of all humanitarianism they seek to project. asserted
they → hide → humanitarianism
But like all other weeks of posturing in the streets or official halls, it ultimately means nothing against the determination of a country that continues to choose to rise above its tragedies, to turn one of its worst days in history into a launch pad for more secure days ahead, and to overcome, yet again, whatever was thrown at it by others, through taking control of itself. asserted
whatever → posture → itself
In the end, that kind of success is what the failed others just cannot handle. asserted
others → fail → what
And while they may certainly choose to walk out on a particular individual or general reality, Israel has made clear that, despite all empty seats and souls, it will never walk out on its future. uncertain
it → choose → future
A proud Jew and radical feminist, she writes and speaks about antisemitism and women’s issues in the world today. asserted
she → write → world
Her work has been published in sp!ked, Skeptic, the American Spectator, and the Federalist. asserted
work → publish → sp!ked
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