United Nations at fault for spike in anti-Semitism across US, Israeli envoy says

The sudden surge in anti-Semitism throughout the U.S. and Europe apparently has its origins in an anti-Israel United Nations resolution from 1975, according to Israel's Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism Michael Cutler-Wunsh.

The increase in anti-Semitism throughout the West appears to have dramatically increased since Hamas' attack against the Jewish state on October 7. Since that time, many students and professors in colleges and universities have expressed their support for Palestine, claiming that Israel is attempting to annihilate the Palestinian people.

"We have to understand that the U.S. is experiencing such massive growth in antisemitism, and we see not only the antisemitism that fueled the atrocities of 10/7, but those that actually fueled the responses to the atrocities of 10/7 across North American campuses, on the streets and online," Cotler-Wunsh said. "It is part of a decade’s-long process."

"The world before 10/7 and the world after it, like 9/11, cannot continue as if nothing happened."

Fox News Digital reported that Hamas' slaughter of 1,200 people on October 7 is viewed as Israel's version of the 9/11 attacks that took place in the U.S.

Cotler-Wunsh took aim at the United Nations for passing what she characterized as an anti-Semitic resolution in 1975 that equated the philosophical position of Zionism with racism.

However, the report noted that the "Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination" resolution was canceled in 1991.

In an article published in late 2021, Aaron Jacob wrote that the United Nations declaring Zionism to be a "form of racism and racial discrimination" was the "worst resolution ever adopted by the UN regarding Israel. Previous UN resolutions had stated that racism should be eliminated. If Zionism is a form of racism, then Zionism, and the state it created, Israel, must be eradicated, too."

"I would say the strain of antisemitism that is anti-Zionism, the negation of Israel's very right to exist across North America … began with the 1975 Zionism is racism resolution," Cotler-Wunsh said. "Soviet propaganda passed at the U.N. has become mainstream across North American campuses in the name of progress."

"The U.N. bears tremendous responsibility. And if I would add to that, the post-atrocities of 10/7, the fact that no U.N. body has condemned unequivocally not the rape, not the bludgeoning, not the mutilation, not the abduction of thousands of civilians, undermining its own mandate."

When Cotler-Wunsh was asked what can be done to stifle the spread and perpetuation of anti-Semitism, she said the first move was to define what it is. She went on to point to the definition provided by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.

According to the Israeli envoy, the IHRA defines anti-Semitism as "[t]he dehumanization, the delegitimization and the double standards applied again" to the Israel.

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