The U.N. Continues its Anti-Israel Offensive

"The United Nations is at it again, finding any means within its power to hurt Israel. The UN is planning to allow many millions of dollars of UN funding, meant to assist the Palestinian Authority in development work, to be used instead to help the Palestinians pursue legal action against Israel in international forums. A document entitled the 'United Nations Development Framework State of Palestine 2018-2022' states that such assistance is to include training and technical advice to enable the Palestinians to 'effectively access international accountability mechanisms' and 'hold Israel accountable for its violations under international law.'...

This so-called 'development framework' is a sham. It represents an outrageous abuse of the UN development assistance budget, estimated to be approximately $250 million annually. The Trump administration cannot allow this misuse of U.S. taxpayer funded contributions to the UN to go unchallenged...

The United Nations is complicit in the Palestinians' campaign to demonize, delegitimize and discriminate against Israel. The UN continues to demonstrate its anti-Israel bias with its allocation of development money to support Palestinian legal actions against Israel and its threats to blacklist companies doing even a shred of business in Israeli settlements or East Jerusalem even if those companies employ Palestinians...

It is time for the Trump administration to use the financial leverage of the United States as the UN's largest funder to put a stop to UN practices that operationalize such bias once and for all."