Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Again: Antisemitism, welcomed and cheered   Anne Bayefsky
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 will go down in history as the day the United Nations General Assembly provided a platform for a head of state to spew unadulterated, vile antisemitism - and the assembled nations of the world clapped.

The United Nations has become the largest global purveyor of antisemitism in the world today. In the full knowledge that the president of Iran denies the Holocaust and advocates the destruction of the U.N. member state of Israel, the U.N. invited him to mount the dais and gave him a megaphone.

Thursday, September 11, 2008
The UN's War on the War on Terrorism - September 11, 2008   Anne Bayefsky
Seven years after 9/11 the UN still cannot identify what counts as terrorism. On September 9, 2008 the President of the UN General Assembly Srgjan Kerim had this to say about the ongoing impasse. He congratulated states for their ability to "rise above ongoing debates on the definition of terrorism and agree on practical, operational steps that needed to be taken." This is a fairly accurate summary of the UN of the 21st century - no matter if you don't know who the enemy is or what principles you are fighting for, as long as we're all working together.

In the very midst of the city traumatized by 9/11, the United Nations continues to provide a global platform for terrorism rather than serve as an agent capable and willing to defeat it. The troubling nature of the UN's "anti-terrorism" performance is a stark reminder that democracies must look far beyond the UN to realize the lessons-learned from that terrible day.