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:

At the United Nations Nothing Justifies Terrorism, Except Palestinian ‘Frustration’ February 3, 2016
Finding excuses for demonizing Jews, discriminating against Jews, delegitimizing Jewish self-determination, and just plain old Jew-hatred, is thousands of years old. It has a name, anti-Semitism.
UN fails to learn lessons of Holocaust. It focuses on showmanship January 27, 2016
How can one square what will clearly be interpreted as a call to arms with the Secretary-General’s repeated statement that “nothing can justify terrorism
Anne Bayefsky with Daniel Henninger of WSJ’s Opinion Journal January 21, 2016
"Definitions of “terrorism” and “violent extremism” are the prerogative of Member States..."
IAEA reports Iran sought nuclear bomb and is still lying. December 4, 2015
Yet Obama prepares to drop Iran sanctions
Nothing Personal About Obama’s Consistent Hostility Toward Israel November 9, 2015
The only question left is how much more blood the president can extract from Israel in his last twelve months
The UN’s Anti-Israel Playbook Gets Help from the US Ambassador (videos) October 20, 2015
President Obama threw Israel under the bus
A Parade of Horribles, with Obama in the Middle September 30, 2015
Over and over, the leader of the free world thought that this was the time and place to apologize for his country and for his fellow Americans
Iran deal: Why won’t Obama reveal terms and conditions as Congress gets ready to vote? September 8, 2015
The Obama legacy will be an age of nuclear proliferation amongst demagogues, despots, strongmen, kings and all their terrorist proxies.
Huckabee is Right: Iran Nuclear Deal Brings us Closer to Catastrophe of Holocaust Proportions July 31, 2015
The President’s deal, with this enemy, takes Israel to the brink of a catastrophe of Holocaust proportions. What else should we call nuclear war?
Obama’s huge Iran hostage sellout: The administration gives a pathetic performance at the UN July 22, 2015
Just not credible
Obama Dashes to the United Nations, Circumvents Congress, on Iran Deal July 16, 2015
It is time to stop saying the rub is that Iran can’t be trusted. It is the Obama administration that can’t be trusted to put America first.
Anne Bayefsky Faces Off Against the UN’s Gaza “Commission of Inquiry” (video) June 30, 2015
Geneva, Switzerland
Shocking UN Report Calls for Arrest of Israelis Around the World June 23, 2015
The U.N. has reached a new low. The United States should start by resigning from the Human Rights Council effective immediately.
UN Secretary-General Weighs Lumping Israel In With ISIS and Al Qaeda June 6, 2015
To date, painstaking casualty analyses by Israeli sources – Hamas is refusing to produce a full list of its fatalities – indicate approximately 1,100 civilian casualties in Gaza
UN says Israel, not Iran, North Korea or Syria worst violator of human rights March 27, 2015
There is an alternative conclusion. We note with disappointment that the United States legitimizes this travesty and empowers the real enemies of human rights.
Top Violator Of Women’s Rights Around The World?  It’s Israel Says UN March 20, 2015
Not Syria, Not Saudi Arabia, Not Sudan, Not Iran
Searching for Criminals Everywhere but the Crime Scene March 14, 2015
President Obama and Iran:
Scandal Rocks the U.N. February 6, 2015
A Report on Human-Rights Violations Has Been Compromised Not Once But Twice
How the UN Mixes Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and Israeli War Crimes February 6, 2015
A Soviet-Arab cabal succeeded in deleting “anti-Semitism” from the draft of the 1965 convention on all forms of racial discrimination as a trade-off for omitting Zionism from the treaty’s list of racist offences.
William Schabas Disgraced, But His Disgraceful UN Handiwork Remains February 4, 2015
It is no accident that a Council notorious for applying double-standards to Israel embraced Schabas, or that a lawyer like Schabas embraced the Council
Kumbaya Won’t Save Us From Islamist Terror and Hate January 12, 2015
Sympathy for Jews and journalists is perceived competition. So they came out to thump their chests and cry “me too!”
UN: Turning back the clock to pre-1948 is the real endgame December 17, 2014
Apparently, a direct attack on the legitimacy of the UN member state of Israel is now interpreted in UN circles as consistent with the principles of the United Nations.
UN Marks Human Rights Day by Promoting Violation of Human Rights December 11, 2014
How many more stabbings, rapes, and killings of Jews around the globe will it take to end American tolerance for incitement to racial and religious intolerance at the United Nations?
The world body places the blame almost everywhere but at the criminal culprits themselves October 15, 2014
At the UN, the buck never stops with radical Islamists or the governments that support them.
At UN Netanyahu Challenges ‘Brazen Lies’ Told by Obama and Abbas September 30, 2014
Unfortunately, plain talk at the U.N. is as unwelcome as it is unusual.
Anne Bayefsky speaks @ the UN about UN antisemitism September 9, 2014
The Continuing United Nations War Against the Jews August 9, 2014
The UN formula for ravaging Israel by ignoring the criminal actions of its foes – and the foes of the civilized world – is breathtaking.
Gaza & the UN war criminals August 8, 2014
The ugly truth: the UN encourages terrorism
Depravity at the UN Human Rights Council July 24, 2014
The light years between the UN “human rights” machinery and genuine human rights is pretty obvious.
Ban Ki-moon’s Shameful Message in Israel’s Hour of Need July 22, 2014
One rule for Israel and another for everybody else, evidently appeals to both the UN and the Obama administration