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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:


Searching for Criminals Everywhere but the Crime Scene

This article by Anne Bayefsky originally appeared in PJ Media. In the twisted world of American politics, President Obama has spent years empowering successive brutal, xenophobic Iranian regimes, each installed after bogus elections. And yet he slams GOP congressmen — who are trying to avoid the lethal consequences – for enabling Iranian “hardliners.”
- Saturday, March 14, 2015

Scandal Rocks the U.N.

This article by Anne Bayefsky originally appeared in National Review. Four days ago, on February 2, the head of a U.N. commission of inquiry created to investigate war crimes in Gaza was forced to resign after it was revealed that he had taken money from the PLO for providing legal advice. William Schabas’s U.N. job was to expose war criminals and recommend how to hold them “accountable.” William Schabas’s PLO job was to show them how to use the International Criminal Court (ICC) to hold Israeli war criminals accountable. He didn’t think there was a problem.
- Friday, February 6, 2015

How the UN Mixes Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and Israeli War Crimes

Institute for Contemporary Affairs Founded jointly with the Wechsler Family Foundation
No. 605 January-February 2015
  • While focusing on anti-Semitism has been studiously avoided by the United Nations, the subject of the Holocaust has served as the consolation prize.
  • The United Nations does not want to deal with anti-Semitism because the organization would be exposed as the global platform for anti-Semitism. The foreign policy of the majority of nations today condones and even promotes anti-Semitism.
- Friday, February 6, 2015

William Schabas Disgraced, But His Disgraceful UN Handiwork Remains

This article by Anne Bayefsky originally appeared on National Post. Canadian lawyer William Schabas was forced to resign as chair of the UN Human Rights Council’s “independent” inquiry on the Gaza war Monday after it was discovered he had been paid to provide legal advice to the PLO as recently as 2012. In one fell swoop, Schabas has managed to embarrass and disgrace not only himself, but the whole UN apparatus that appointed and promoted him.
- Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Kumbaya Won't Save Us From Islamist Terror and Hate

This article by Anne Bayefsky originally appeared on Fox News. The warm feelings on display in Paris and elsewhere around the world Sunday in response to the horrors of the past week, unfortunately, will do next to nothing to change the tide against Islamist terrorism. That explains why world leaders who support terrorism have no problem supporting Paris.
- Monday, January 12, 2015

UN: Turning back the clock to pre-1948 is the real endgame

This article by Anne Bayefsky originally appeared in the Jerusalem Post. Incitement against the Jewish state is directly related to the stabbings, raping and killing of Jews inside and outside of Israel. But doing something to stop it requires confronting a very troubling fact: the global epicenter for incitement is the "human rights" leviathan, the United Nations.
- Wednesday, December 17, 2014

UN Marks Human Rights Day by Promoting Violation of Human Rights

This article by Anne Bayefsky originally appeared on Fox News. Sixty-six years ago was the high water mark of global disapproval of xenophobia, and racial and religious discrimination. On December 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and then gave Eleanor Roosevelt a standing ovation for her leading role. Today, this statement of principle would never pass.
- Thursday, December 11, 2014


At UN Netanyahu Challenges 'Brazen Lies' Told by Obama and Abbas

This article by Anne Bayefsky originally appeared on Fox News. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chose not to let President Obama’s bold allegation that Israelis were not interested in peace go unanswered in his speech Monday at the UN. “Brazen lies spoken from this very podium against my country” is how Netanyahu described the remarks of previous speakers, when he addressed the U.N. General Assembly.
- Tuesday, September 30, 2014


The Continuing United Nations War Against the Jews

This article by Anne Bayefsky originally appeared on JPost. On August 6, 2014, the United Nations convened the entire global community for an unusual day-long “informal” session of the General Assembly. The purpose: to demonize the Jewish state and emasculate its right of self-defense.
- Saturday, August 9, 2014

Gaza & the UN war criminals

This article by Anne Bayefsky originally appeared on Fox News. As the terrorist organization Hamas breaks yet another ceasefire, it operates with the firm belief that it will be protected on the international stage. That’s because the modern United Nations has become an instrument of war, just seven decades after it was founded “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.”
- Friday, August 8, 2014

Depravity at the UN Human Rights Council

This article by Anne Bayefsky originally appeared on The Jerusalem Post. The UN Human Rights Council held a special session in Geneva on July 23, 2014 to declare effectively that Israelis do not have human rights. The vote was 29 in favor, 1 against and 17 abstentions.
- Thursday, July 24, 2014

Ban Ki-moon's Shameful Message in Israel's Hour of Need

This article by Anne Bayefsky originally appeared on The Jerusalem Post. It is hard to imagine two more unwelcome, uninvited visitors to Israel in the middle of a war against Palestinian terrorists than UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and US Secretary of State John Kerry. But even more unwelcome is that they are working together.
- Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Undermining Israel's right to self-defense: The UN pathology

This article by Anne Bayefsky originally appeared on The Jerusalem Post. The 20th century job description of the United Nations was “to maintain international peace and security” based on “the sovereign equality of all its members,” and to do “nothing [to] impair the inherent right of self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a member of the UN.”
- Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Israel crisis: Obama's obscene moral relativism

This article by Anne Bayefsky originally appeared on FoxNews. As Palestinian terror dramatically escalates, the Obama administration is working hard – not to defeat the terrorists, but to tie Israel’s hands behind its back.
- Saturday, July 12, 2014




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