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Anne Bayefsky

Anne Bayefsky is director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust. Follow her @AnneBayefsky.

Most Recent Articles by Anne Bayefsky:

Trump's wise to quit the UN “Human Rights” Council

Trump's wise to quit the UN Human Rights Council President Trump has rightly decided to terminate U.S. membership on what UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo today called the “misnamed” UN “Human Rights” Council. The move comes after the administration gave the Council 17 months to get serious about reform and to stop spreading antisemitism under the false flag of promoting human rights.
- Wednesday, June 20, 2018





Will Trump seek UN or American applause at his UN debut?

As Trump mounts the U.N. General Assembly stage this week for the first time, one measuring stick cuts to the chase: will ‘make America great again’ shrivel into a futile search for applause lines?
- Monday, September 18, 2017

Look Who Will Be Joining the U.N. Human Rights Council

The U.N. Human Rights Council has an election coming up in October, which can mean only one thing: A new slate of human rights abusers are poised to be elected to the U.N.'s top human rights body. The council already currently includes such human rights luminaries as: China, Cote d'Ivoire, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela. They will be joined—at minimum—by the notorious Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Angola.
- Thursday, September 7, 2017


Germany's dangerous stand against US, Israel must be stopped

Israel and the Trump administration have a German problem, ironically manifesting itself on Israel’s 69th birthday. Just as President Trump’s emissaries and his UN Ambassador Nikki Haley are rightly insisting that Israel-bashing at the UN cease, Germany is moving in the opposite direction.
- Tuesday, May 2, 2017


U.N. Human Rights Council Quicksand: Get Out or Drown

The U.N. “Human Rights” Council starts its main annual session on Monday in Geneva with elected members and human-rights aficionados such as Saudi Arabia, China, and Qatar settling into their seats.
- Monday, February 27, 2017

The French-Obama-Arab-UN Attack in the Offing

President Obama has gone rogue and only one man can protect American democracy in the next few days: the President-elect. On January 15, 2017, with only five days left after 2,917 days in office, President Barack Obama is planning once again to feed Israel to the international wolves. The move is intended to tie the hands of President Donald Trump and is a direct repudiation of the will of the American electorate who rejected Obama's calamitous foreign policy and a repeat performance by his secretary of state.
- Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Diplomatic terrorism at the UN, courtesy President Obama

The vicious condemnation of Israel at the UN Security Council on December 23, 2016 is a watershed moment in U.S.-UN relations – albeit not as President Obama hoped. Following the vote of fourteen in favor and one American abstention, Palestinian representative Riyadh Mansour and American Ambassador Samantha Power exchanged a telling handshake. Evidently, President Obama believes that he has put one over on Israel, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the incoming Trump administration. But here’s another possibility: treachery at the UN will not be cost free.
- Sunday, December 25, 2016


A Wake-up Call to American Businesses and Taxpayers

U.S. companies are in for a shock as President Obama takes aim once again at Israel in the final month of his presidency. In the coming days, he is expected to direct his team at the United Nations to vote for U.S. funding of "BDS," the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign aimed at financially ruining Israel and smearing the companies with which it does business.
- Thursday, December 22, 2016

Trumpism for International Dummies: Obama Multilateralism was a Hot Mess

There is a cure for the hysteria gripping foreign capitals and diplomatic salons after a Trump win: soul-searching. For the explanation of why Americans demanded a fresh start can be found as much in the chambers of international diplomacy as it can in Washington corridors.
- Thursday, November 17, 2016

Obama's Post-election Surprise: Stabbing Israel in the Back at the UN

It is time to talk about the post-election surprise: a bitter President Barack Obama stabs Israel in the back on his way out the door. There is a very real danger the president will dramatically change long-standing, bipartisan foreign policy by refusing to exercise the United States’ veto power at the United Nations Security Council on a devastating anti-Israel resolution.
- Saturday, November 12, 2016

Terrorized New Yorkers Host Terror-Enabling Regimes at UN

The leaders of terror-sponsoring states are currently descending on Manhattan for the annual opening of the UN General Assembly and their words are guaranteed to be blasted across the global airwaves. It is about time we made the connection between the terror-enablers in Turtle Bay and the terrorism in the streets beyond.
- Tuesday, September 20, 2016

All Jews out of Palestine is not a peace plan

The Obama administration is furious about Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's recent objection to Palestinian plans for a state with "no Jews." In a video posted on September 9, 2016, Netanyahu made the obvious comments that the Palestinian effort to purge all Jews from the West Bank amounts to "ethnic-cleansing" and "ethnic cleansing for peace is absurd." The State Department responded by shooting the messenger, calling Netanyahu's remarks "inappropriate and unhelpful."
- Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Anti-Semitism, Brought to You by the United Nations

The United Nations was founded as a global pact among states, but over the decades in the name of transparency and to further the aim of globalization, it has opened its doors to more than 6,150 non-governmental organizations (NGOs). While governments wring their hands over incitement to terror and dangerous uses of social media, they ignore the alarming focal point within arms' reach: the United Nations.
- Wednesday, September 7, 2016

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