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Source: https://jcpa.org/why-the-un-and-international-institutions-must-now-be-placed-on-trial/
Why the UN and International Institutions Must Now Be Placed on Trial
(Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs) Dr. Dan Diker - The United Nations, established in the aftermath of the Nazi Holocaust to respond to and prevent crimes against humanity, has subverted its founding charter, rationalizing aggression by Iran-backed proxies like Hamas, while failing to uphold Israel's right to self-defense as a UN member and even equating the Jewish and democratic state to the terror groups trying to destroy it. The morally disfigured responses by UN bodies to Oct. 7 reflect a decades-long trajectory of corruption in its demonization, delegitimization, and double standards regarding Israel. Since 2015, the UN General Assembly's 140 resolutions against Israel dwarf those against all other nations combined, a stark double standard. The UN Security Council's failure to unequivocally condemn Hamas's October 7 attack epitomizes the UN's hypocrisy. Resolution 2712, passed on November 15, 2023, called for humanitarian pauses but omitted mention of the attack. Responding to the corrupt UN-led international system demands U.S.-led pressure. Tools at the U.S.'s disposal include cutting the U.S. 25% share of the total UN budget; promoting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Working Definition of Antisemitism and its Israel examples; designating Hamas, Iran, and other Iranian proxies as terror entities; and rallying the Community of Democracies (CoD), first initiated in 2000 by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright, to unite democracies by defending sovereign rights and fighting disinformation as a caucus group within the UN. The UN's failure to uphold its 1949 recognition of Israel's self-determination, and to protect the principle of sovereign equality, necessitates radical reform or a new legal-political framework altogether. The writer is President of the Jerusalem Center.