US envoy: PM right about ‘unfair focus’ on Israel, the UN as a whole isn’t antisemitic

Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief

US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaks during a Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on September 25, 2024. (Leonardo Munoz/AFP)
US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaks during a Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on September 25, 2024. (Leonardo Munoz/AFP)

NEW YORK — US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield agrees with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim during his speech earlier today that there is an unnecessarily large focus on Israel at the United Nations but rejects the premier’s assertion that the institution as a whole is antisemitic.

“We have raised concerns consistently of an unfair bias in the UN system as it relates to Israel. We have an inordinate number of meetings related to Israel compared to other regions in the world where we have sometimes even more problems, like Sudan is an example,” Thomas-Greenfield tells NBC News.

“I think the Prime Minister is right in the sense that there is an unfair focus on Israel. I will not comment on antisemitism,” she continues. “I have no doubt that there are individuals in the UN system or among member states that might apply to. I would not apply it to the entire UN system.”

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