Israel and the UN: A History of Scrutiny

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For more than seventy years, the United Nations has been one of the central stages on which Israel's story has played out, from the 1947 partition plan to today's debates over UNRWA, the Human Rights Council, and the role of the Secretary General. Is the scrutiny Israel faces at the UN a legitimate exercise of international accountability, or has the institution held Israel to a standard it applies to no one else? In person events are open to Harvard ID holders only. Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch, and Kathryn Sikkink, Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy, bring very different vantage points to that question, one rooted in decades of monitoring the UN's treatment of Israel and the other in the study of how international institutions hold states to…

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