THE UNITED NATIONS IS ILLEGITIMATE
On November 11, 2026, the UN General Assembly voted — 144 votes — to elect Iran’s Islamic regime to the Committee for Programme and Coordination, for a three-year term starting January 1, 2027. That committee shapes UN priorities on women’s rights, disarmament, and counter-terrorism.
A regime that kills women for defying it now helps decide what the UN does about women’s rights.
An institution that does this has no moral authority. We will not pretend otherwise.
THE HYPOCRISY, IN THE UN’S OWN NUMBERS
UN General Assembly, 2015–2025: 187 resolutions against Israel. 90 against every other country combined. Source: UN Watch Database.
In 2026, the UNGA is expected to adopt 12 resolutions on Israel, and 8 on the entire rest of the world.
In 2025: 15 resolutions on Israel, 11 on the rest of the world. Zero on Sudan — where more than 150,000 people have been killed and 12 million forced from their homes.
UN Human Rights Council, since 2006: 116 resolutions against Israel. 45 against Syria. 18 against Iran. 14 against Russia.
Israel is the only country with a permanent agenda item — Item 7 — at every regular session of the Human Rights Council. No other country has one.
China: 0 UN General Assembly resolutions, 2015–2025. Sudan: 0. Hamas: 0.
THREE EXAMPLES
1. Iran, again. In December 2022, the UN removed Iran from the Commission on the Status of Women after Mahsa Amini was killed in custody and women were shot in the streets for protesting. Four years later, the same UN put Iran on the committee that sets priorities on women’s rights.
2. Saudi Arabia. In 2017, the UN elected Saudi Arabia — where women were then barred from driving — to a 2018–2022 term on that same Commission on the Status of Women, the UN body dedicated to gender equality.
3. Hamas, never condemned. On October 27, 2023, twenty days after October 7, the General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for a truce — 120 to 14 — without mentioning Hamas at all. A Canadian amendment to condemn Hamas and demand the hostages’ release failed to reach the required two-thirds majority. Hamas was not named in a General Assembly resolution until June 2025, and even then it was not condemned for October 7.
This is not a body that lost its way. This is a body that chose this way.