Close Window United Nations Archive  Archived Press Releases Date ADL Calls on U.S. to Pull Out of U.N. Human Rights Council Following 'Hypocritical and Biased' Votes Condemning Israel 03/22/12 ADL Troubled by U.N. Participation in "One-Sided" Middle East Conference on Jerusalem 02/28/12 ADL Welcomes U.N. Resolution Condemning Syrian Government's Brutality 02/17/12 ADL Welcomes U.S. Decision to Close Embassy in Damascus 02/06/12 ADL Commends UNESCO For Withdrawing Funding From Palestinian Magazine; Calls For Further Action 12/23/11 ADL Dismayed By European U.N. Ambassadors' Statement Placing Onus On Israel For Negotiations 12/22/11 ADL Calls Annual Anti-Israel Spectacle At U.N. A 'Farce';Says Palestinians Should Be Held Accountable For Failure To Negotiate 11/29/11 ADL: U.N. Agency 'Incapable Of Acting Responsibly' On Iranian Nuclear Threat 11/18/11 ADL Calls On U.S., France, Germany And U.K. To 'Deliver On Promise' For Tough Iran Sanctions 11/10/11 UNESCO Vote on Palestinian Membership 'Shortsighted, Premature and Irresponsible' 10/31/11 UNESCO Executive Board Recommendation that 'Palestine' Be Admitted as a Full Agency Member 'Dangerously Inappropriate' 10/05/11 ADL And ACWJ Honor Muslim President Of Senegal For His Commitment To Religious Pluralism 09/27/11 Spain Signals Shift In Mideast Policy With U.N. Speech Underlining Commitment To Israel 09/27/11 Quartet's Call for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations Laudable, But Attempt to Dictate Agenda 'Cause for Concern' 09/25/11 ADL Applauds Netanyahu's Speech to the U.N.; Says Palestinian Leader's Desire For Peace 'Rings Hollow' 09/23/11 ADL Says Iranian Leader's Latest Anti-West Diatribe Makes A Mockery Of The U.N. 09/22/11 ADL Welcomes President Obama's 'Direct And Urgent' Call To Palestinians To End U.N. Gambit 09/21/11 ADL Calls On Honduras to Clarify Position on Palestinian Statehood; Urges Central American States to Support Direct Negotiations 08/05/11 ADL Calls on U.N. to Take Immediate Action to Stop Syria's Violent Crackdown 08/03/11 ADL Urges Action After U.N. Official Posts Anti-Semitic Cartoon On His Personal Blog 07/07/11 ADL Urges U.N. to Withdraw Biased Report on Clashes at Israel-Lebanon Border 07/07/11 ADL Welcomes U.S. Decision To Avoid 'Durban III' 06/02/11 ADL Lauds U.S. Impact on U.N. Human Rights Council; Urges Action to Counter Body's Anti-Israel Bias 03/28/11 ADL To U.N. President: General Assembly Wrong Forum For Film On Arab-Israeli Conflict 03/14/11 ADL Welcomes U.S. Veto Of 'Flawed' Security Council Resolution On Israeli Settlements 02/18/11 U.S. Should Publicly State It Will Veto U.N. Security Council Resolution On Settlements 01/28/11 ADL Calls on U.N. Member-States to Avoid 'Durban III' 12/24/10 ADL: U.N. Vote to Commemorate Durban Conference "Outrageous and Shameful" 11/24/10 ADL Applauds UNESCO Decision to Withdraw Support from World Philosophy Day in Iran 11/09/10 ADL Urges UNESCO To Remove Endorsement of World Philosophy Event in Iran 11/04/10 ADL Concerned Over UNESCO's Biased Resolutions Against Israel 11/01/10 ADL: UN Human Rights Council Report On Gaza Flotilla "Undeniably Biased" 09/27/10 U.N. Security Council Resolution On Iran "A Springboard" For Additional Sanctions 06/09/10 ADL Commends U.S. Efforts to Increase Pressure On Iran At United Nations 05/21/10 ADL Praises Countries For Walking Out On Ahmadinejad Speech 05/03/10 U.N. Demonization Of Israel 'Deja Vu All Over Again' 03/25/10 ADL Says European Parliament Decision To Endorse Goldstone Report 'Outrageous' 03/11/10 ADL Calls On U.N. Security Council To Adopt Tougher Sanctions Against Iran 03/05/10 ADL Welcomes Israel's Entry Into U.N. Coalition Of Liberal Democracies 01/26/10 ADL Unsurprised By U.N. Vote To Formally Endorse Goldstone Report 11/06/09 ADL Praises Moral Stance Of Congress In Rejecting Biased Goldstone Report 11/04/09 ADL's Foxman To Richard Goldstone: Repudiate The Report 11/03/09 UN Human Rights Council Vote to Endorse Goldstone Report 'Outrageous' 10/16/09 ADL Commends UN Delegates Who Walked Out On Ahmadinejad 09/24/09 UNESCO Vote A Victory For International Understanding Through Culture And Education 09/22/09 Goldstone Report Is Fundamentally Biased; US And World Community Should Reject Findings 09/15/09 ADL Issues Open Letter To UNESCO; Urges Members To Reject Candidacy Of Farouk Hosni 09/14/09 Statement on 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Mary Robinson 08/03/09 ADL: Secretary-General Sends Wrong Message to U.N. Anti-Israel Committee 07/22/09 ADL to Ban Ki-Moon: U.N. Should Dismantle Anti-Israel Committee 07/20/09 ADL Calls On World Leaders To Reject Egyptian Culture Minister's Candidacy For UNESCO 06/01/09 ADL Recognizes Nations Who Took Moral Stand Against The Anti-Israel Durban II Hatefest 04/20/09 ADL Concerned With Obama Administration Decision to Join UN Human Rights Council 03/31/09 ADL Praises Italy's "Admirable Leadership" In Withdrawal from Durban Review Conference 03/05/09 ADL Applauds U.S. Decision Not to Participate in Durban Review Conference 02/27/09 ADL Calls On U.S. and Others Not to Participate in Durban Review Conference 02/16/09 ADL Calls On Responsible Nations To Withdraw From Tainted U.N. Durban II Conference 01/26/09 General Assembly President Unfit To Participate In U.N. Holocaust Ceremony 01/23/09 ADL: UN Human Rights Council Resolution Reveals "Cancerous Bias" Against Israel 01/13/09 U.N. Security Council Resolution On Israel-Hamas Ceasefire "Deeply Flawed" 01/09/09 UN Statement on Israel Action Against Hamas 'Sheer Hypocrisy' 12/28/08 ADL: U.N. Gen. Assembly President's Anti-Israel Bias Calls Into Question His "Fitness To Serve" 12/11/08 ADL Derides 'Anti-Israel Spectacle' At UN; Calls On Ban Ki-Moon To Speak Out 11/25/08 ADL Welcomes Israel's Decision Not to Participate in 'Tainted Proceedings' of U.N. Racism Conference 11/19/08 U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Unfairly Blames Israel, Gives Hamas A Pass 11/18/08 ADL To Ban Ki-Moon: 'Ahmadinejad Must Not Go Unanswered' 09/24/08 Ahmadinejad's Speech To The U.N. Puts His Anti-Semitism On Full Display 09/23/08 Archbishop Tutu's Report On Gaza Shelling 'Nonsensical And Outrageous' 09/19/08 ADL Calls UNICEF Decision To Reject Jewish Donor "Selective Discrimination" 06/24/08 ADL Says Libyan U.N. Representative's Remarks Equating Israel With Nazi Germany 'Deeply Insulting' 04/24/08 New U.N. Human Rights Rapporteur For Palestinians A "Singularly Inappropriate" Choice 04/09/08 U.N. Security Council's Inaction On Jerusalem Terrorist Attack "Shocking" 03/07/08 ADL Calls On President Of U.N. Human Rights Council To Speak Out Against Anti-Israel Report 02/28/08 ADL Says "Shameful" U.N. Human Rights Council Resolution Against Israel "Another New Low Point" 01/24/08 ADL Welcomes U.S. Ambassador's Vote Against U.N. Body Singling Out Israel 11/20/07 ADL Welcomes U.N. Secretary General's Order to Investigate Rocket Attacks on Israel 11/09/07 ADL Tells U.N. Secretary General: Remarks To Biased U.N. Conference "Disappointing" 08/31/07 On Anniversary Of Capture, ADL Urges International Community To Press For Immediate Release Of Israeli Soldiers 06/22/07 ADL Says U.N. Human Rights Council 'At It Again' After Israel Declared Permanent Agenda Item 06/19/07 ADL Calls On Members Of U.N. Human Rights Council To Reject The Institutionalizing Of Discrimination Against Israel 06/15/07 U.N. Secretary-General Holds Talks with ADL on Middle East Issues 04/05/07 Proposed U.N. Human Rights Mandate To Probe Israel 'A Disgraceful Abuse Of Power' 03/19/07 Latest U.N. Human Rights Report A "Vicious Screed" Against Israel 03/01/07 ADL Welcomes Passage of U.N. Resolution Condemning Holocaust Denial 01/26/07 ADL to Uncommitted U.N. Ambassadors: Support Holocaust Denial Resolution 01/23/07 ADL Urges U.N. Secretary-General: Speak Out Against Iran's Holocaust Denial 01/12/07 ADL Mourns the Passing of Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick 12/08/06 John Bolton's Tenure At U.N. Marked By 'Fairness, Moral Clarity' 12/04/06 ADL Blasts Appointment Of Desmond Tutu As Head Of U.N. Fact Finding Mission To Gaza 11/29/06 ADL Deems 'Reform' of U.N. Human Rights Council 'A Failure' in Wake of Latest Anti-Israel Votes 11/28/06 ADL Praises U.S. For Vetoing "Misguided" U.N. Security Council Resolution On Israel 11/13/06 Kofi Annan's Planned Meeting With Ahmadinejad "Demeans And Degrades His Office" 08/30/06 ADL Denounces UN Human Rights Council Anti-Israel Resolution as False and One-Sided 08/11/06 ADL Labels Kofi Annan's Statements on Israel 'Blatantly One-Sided' 08/09/06 ADL To Kofi Annan: Don't Rush To Judge Israel 07/27/06 U.N. Security Council Resolution Condemning Israeli Operations 'Shameful' 07/14/06 U.N. Human Rights Council Predictably Blames Israel While Giving Hamas A Pass 07/06/06 U.N. Human Rights Council Takes Two Steps Back 06/30/06 ADL Urges UNESCO to Ensure That Auschwitz Is Designated As "German" Camp 04/10/06 ADL: Vote to Create A New UN Human Rights Council Not True Reform But Could Prove to Be More Responsible and Reliable Than Its Predecessor 03/15/06 U.N. Human Rights Official Uses Status To Promote Anti-Israel Bias 03/10/06 ADL Hails U.N. Passage of Resolution Establishing Holocaust Memorial Day 11/01/05 As 60th General Assembly Convenes, ADL Meetings Urge Reform of U.N. And Fair Treatment of Israel 09/12/05 ADL Asks UN Agency to Cite Disciplinary Action Taken After Disclosure that Its Funds Were Used for Anti-Israel Propaganda 08/17/05 ADL Calls on U.N. Human Rights Commissioner to Take Action in Wake of Colleague's Statements Against Israel 07/25/05 ADL Calls for Abolition of U.N. Committee for Its "Extreme And Unmitigated" Hate Against Israel 07/15/05 ADL to Annan: Reconsider Support for Anti-Israel Conference 07/11/05 ADL Urges Resignation of U.N. Food Rapporteur In Wake of Remarks Comparing Israelis To Nazis 07/11/05 ADL Welcomes Resolution Calling For The UN To Condemn Anti-Semitism 06/07/05 UN Human Rights Commission Again Fails In Its Mandates 04/18/05 ADL Welcomes Annan Initiative to Reform U.N. 03/23/05 ADL Calls U.N. Bethlehem Report Shocking and Flagrantly Biased 12/21/04 ADL Welcomes Inclusion of Anti-Semitism in U.N. Resolution 11/23/04 ADL to U.N.: Dismiss Official with Overt Bias Against Israel 10/15/04 ADL: U.N. Reaches 'New Low' in General Assembly Anti-Israel Vote; EU Support 'Makes A Mockery' of Its Role in the Peace Process 07/21/04 ADL Welcomes U.N. Leadership on Anti-Semitism; Says Nations Must Stop Denying the Problem 06/21/04 ADL Commends Hungary for Rejecting U.N. Body's Anti-Israel Agenda 06/16/04 U.N. Representative's One Sided Accusations Against Israel Appalling 05/21/04 U.N. Passes Another Biased Resolution Against Israel 05/07/04 U.S. Praised for Veto of Anti-Israel Security Council Resolution 03/26/04 U.N. Human Rights Commission's Vote Against Israel 'Tragically Predictable' 03/24/04 ADL Welcomes Kofi Annan's Statement On Anti-Semitism 01/14/04 European Nations Commended for Opposing Palestinian Challenge to Israel's Credentials at U.N. 12/19/03 Biased U.N. Resolution on Israel's Security Fence Undermines The Hague 12/08/03 ADL Condemns Secretary General's Report on Israel's Security Fence 12/01/03 ADL Outraged by Egyptian Efforts to Weaken U.N. Resolution on Children's Rights 11/20/03 ADL Criticizes U.N. Endorsement of Road Map Peace Process 11/19/03 ADL Concerned at Kofi Annan's Support for Unofficial Mideast Peace Initiatives 11/10/03 U.N. Resolution on Religious Intolerance Omits Anti-Semitism 11/10/03 U.N. Report on Arab Development Tainted By Criticism of Israel 10/24/03 ADL Commends U.S. Veto of One-Sided Security Council Resolution Against Israel 10/15/03 U.N. Human Rights Report Biased Against Israel 09/30/03 European Nations Fail Israel In 'Disappointing' Vote at U.N. 09/19/03 ADL Commends U.S. for Veto of Anti-Israel UN Resolution 09/16/03 U.N. Secretary General's Message to Anti-Israel Forum "One-Sided and Counterproductive" 09/04/03 ADL to Kofi Annan: Upcoming Palestinian Conference Will Serve as Anti-Israel Propaganda Forum 08/26/03 ADL Mourns The Loss of Sergio Vieira De Mello 08/19/03 ADL to UN Human Rights Commission: Examine Human Rights Issues Proportionally, Respectfully And In A Constructive Manner 03/10/03 ADL Commends U.S. Move Against Libya Chairing UN Human Rights Body; 'Shine a Spotlight on Human Rights Offenders, Don't Legitimize Them' 01/14/03 ADL Condemns Passage of Six Anti-Israel U.N. General Assembly Resolutions 12/04/02 ADL Deeply Disappointed By U.N. Resolution on Racism, Calls It 'A Troubling Expansion of Durban Declaration' 11/27/02 ADL: Anti-Israel UN Security Council Resolution Detrimental, U.S. Abstention Disappointing 09/24/02 ADL Commends President Bush's Message To International Community On Iraq Calling It 'Clear And Forceful' 09/12/02 ADL: Palestinian Summer Camps Teach Terror Tactics, Espouse Hatred Some Found to Be Funded by UNICEF 09/09/02 ADL Welcomes New UN Human Rights Commissioner, League Leaders Hope to Establish Better Relationships 08/08/02 ADL Says U.N. Report on Jenin 'Shouldn't Have Been Written' 08/01/02 ADL Calls on Members of UNESCO to Seize Opportunity to Condemn Anti-Semitism 05/20/02 ADL Calls U.N. Resolution Against Israel 'Biased And Politicized' 05/08/02 ADL: UN Human Rights Commission Endorses a 'Green Light' for Terrorists 04/23/02 ADL Says U.N. Envoy's Comments About Conditions In Jenin "One-Sided" 04/19/02 ADL Denounces UN Human Rights Commission Anti-Israel Resolution 04/16/02 ADL To Kofi Annan: Stop U.N.'s Use As Platform For Anti-Israel Propaganda 04/11/02 ADL Deplores Algerian Comparison of Israelis to Nazis at UN Meeting, Calling It "Blatant Anti-Semitism" 03/21/02 ADL Says Kofi Annan's Letter To Israel "Astonishing" Calls on U.N. to Avoid One-Sided Statements 03/19/02 ADL Says Kofi Annan's Statement to U.N. Security Council "Outrageous And Counterproductive" 03/13/02 ADL to UN Human Rights Commission: Stop Blatantly Singling Out Israel 03/12/02 ADL: U.N. Should Not Intervene in Middle East Conflict 12/22/01 ADL: U.N. "Emergency Session" Serves to Encourage Arab & Palestinian Theatrics on the World Stage 12/21/01 ADL Calls on European Union Members to Reconsider Attending Fourth Geneva Convention 11/26/01 Conspiracy Theories and Criticism of Israel in Aftermath of Sept. 11 Attacks 11/01/01 ADL Outraged at Syria's Election to U.N. Security Council 10/8/01 ADL Urges Congress To Reject Incindiary Language Against Jews, Israel At Upcoming U.N. Conference Against Racism 7/31/01 ADL Launches New Web Resource, Issues Call to Conscience For U.N. Meeting On Racism 7/24/01 ADL to Vatican: Let The Truth Be Told Open Holocaust Files to Scholars 7/23/01 ADL Calls G-8 Proposal For International Observer Force In Middle East "Counterproductive" 7/20/01 ADL to Kofi Annan: Release U.N. Videotape To Israel 7/11/01 ADL: U.S. Removal from U.N. Human Rights Commission Confirms the Highly Political and Cynical Nature of the Body and its Proceedings 5/4/01 ADL Says U.N. Human Rights Commission Unfairly Singles Out Israel for Criticism 4/18/01 ADL Applauds U.S. Veto of One-Sided U.N. Security Council Resolution 3/28/01 ADL Welcomes U.N. Vote to Reject International Force in Israel 12/19/00 ADL Says UN Human Rights Chief Has Accepted 'Hook, Line and Sinker' Palestinian Strategy; Calls Her Report Distorted and Detrimental 11/27/00 ADL Urges U.N. Security Council to Reject Arafat’s Call for a "Protection Force" in Israel 11/9/00 ADL Condemns U.N. Human Rights Commission Resolution Accusing Israel of 'War Crimes' 10/20/00 ADL Urges World Leaders to Reject Expected U.N. General Assembly Anti-Israel Resolution 10/18/00 ADL Says Israel’s Admission to U.N. Regional Group An Historic Step 5/31/00 ADL BACKGROUNDER: Israel and the United Nations 1998-1999: The Fourth Geneva Convention and Resolution 181 9/14/99 ADL Dismayed by UN Resolution Applying the Fourth Geneva Convention to the "Occupied Territories" 7/15/99 ADL Deplores UN Resolution Recycling 1947 UN Partition Plan 4/29/99 ADL Outraged by U.N. Resolution Calling for Conference of Geneva Convention 2/10/99 ADL Says Kofi Annan Brings "New Perspective and Moral Authority" to U.N. Calls Meeting with Secretary General "Highly Productive" 1/20/99 ADL Welcomes UN Resolution Calling Anti-Semitism Racism 12/10/98 ADL Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights 12/8/98 ADL Condemns UN Human Rights Committee Report on Israel 12/4/98 ADL Urges U.N. Human Rights Commission to Reevaluate Candidacy of Supporter of Holocaust Denier for Award 9/3/98 ADL Condemns Efforts To Politicize International Criminal Court 7/20/98 ADL Condemns Harsh UN Security Council Statement On Israel’s Jerusalem Plan 7/14/98 ADL Applauds Administration For Support Of Israel In UN Urges U.S. To Unequivocally Oppose Unilateral Declaration Of Palestinian Statehood 7/8/98 ADL Troubled By UN Partiality On Israel’s Jerusalem Plan 6/24/98 ADL Criticizes U.N. Secretary General's Comments During Middel East Tour 3/27/98 ADL Calls Israel's Omission From UN Report Biased Treatment. 3/2/98 Universal Postal Union Promises ADL To Stop Omitting Israel From International List 9/11/97 ADL Protests Israel's Omission From Universal Postal Union List 8/29/97 ADL Outraged By UN. Passage Of Anti-Israel Resolution. Calls International Interference Harmful To Peace Process 7/16/97 ADL Calls On United States And Europeans To Counter Proposed Anti-Israel Resolution At United Nations 7/10/97 ADL Calls On Un Head To Condemn "Blood Libel" Against Israel Made By Palestinian Observer To UN Human Rights Commission 4/18/97 ADL Deplores Passage Of  Anti-Israel UN Resolution 3/13/97 ADL Says UN General Assembly Session On Jerusalem Building Project Will Undermine Israeli-Palestinian Negotiating process 3/11/97 ADL Calls Upcoming Security Council Discussion On Har Homa Unnecessary And Harmful; Urges U.S.. To Help Move Peace Process Forward 3/4/97 ADL Calls UN Report on Incident at Base in Lebanon One-Sided 5/10/96 ADL Applauds U.S. for Voting Against Anti-Israel UN Resolutions 4/26/96 ADL Disturbed that United Nations-Run Facility May Have Provided Environment for Recruitment and Training of Terrorists 3/08/96 Close Window