This is a moment of disgrace for the international community. It has proved that there is no bottom to the pit of hostility, hypocrisy and racism directed against Israel. When such displays of hostility come from the various bodies of the United Nations, where there is an automatic majority of oppressive and backward regimes, the results are a foregone conclusion. Between 2015 and 2026, for example, the UN General Assembly adopted 187 resolutions against Israel, compared with just 90 against all the other countries in the world combined.
Of all the UN bodies, the Human Rights Council is probably the most active. It is the body that appoints commissions of inquiry, most of which focus on Israel. And as a matter of routine, anyone fortunate enough to be appointed to one of these commissions, a position that comes with a respectable salary and international prestige, must first meet one essential requirement: a profound and deeply rooted hostility toward Israel.
Navi Pillay
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One of the stars of these institutions is Navi Pillay, the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Human Rights Council appointed her to chair the commission investigating the situation in Israel and the Palestinian territories. On September 22, 2024, the commission submitted a 28-page report to the UN General Assembly. Israel is mentioned 277 times. How many times is Hamas mentioned? Zero. The word "terrorism" does not appear in the report either.
The human rights representatives at the UN, from countries such as Yemen, Sudan, Iran and North Korea, liked what they saw and appointed Pillay to head another commission, which in March 2025 submitted a report with the following title. Brace yourselves: "More than a human can bear: Israel's systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since 7 October 2023." This is what a report on sexual violence looks like when written by the defense lawyers of sex offenders.
Most democratic countries, to their credit for once, did not support the establishment of these commissions, because they knew Pillay's conclusions had been written in advance. They had good reason. She had previously signed a petition calling for "sanctions against the apartheid state of Israel."
UN Watch, led by Hillel Neuer, a remarkable one-man powerhouse, launched a campaign to remove Pillay from the UN and published a detailed report documenting her conduct. The pressure led to the resignation of Pillay and two other members of the standing commission investigating the situation in the Palestinian territories. But Pillay was not finished. In September 2025, she delivered yet another report, an outright blood libel, claiming that Israel had committed genocide.
Pillay is not alone on the international stage. Richard Falk, a former UN Human Rights Council special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, and Francesca Albanese, the current rapporteur, stand alongside her and many others on this stage of hatred and disgrace. Even so, Pillay has few rivals when it comes to hostility toward Israel, a country whose very existence she opposes.
What is even more disturbing is that Pillay was not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize despite being consumed by a profound hatred of Israel. She was chosen precisely because hostility toward Israel is such a central part of her work. And even now, while serving as an ad hoc judge in the Myanmar case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the UN's highest court, she is attempting to change and broaden the rules governing the crime of genocide to pave the way for Israel's conviction.
We thought the international community had already reached the bottom of the barrel. We were wrong. And when the most prominent defender of hatred toward Israel is now awarded the highest honor of all, it is not only Goebbels who must be smiling in his grave. Orwell, too, must be turning in his.