Diaspora Ministry launches site collating United Nations bias against Israel in war against Hamas

The Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Ministry on Wednesday launched its first comprehensive international campaign aimed at exposing what it says is the United Nation's mechanism of bias against Israel ahead of the UN General Assembly's general debate, which is set to begin in New York on September 22.

The information presented on the website addresses alleged bias and manipulation, reports of famine in Gaza, UNRWA, accusations of genocide, and publications in which the ministry says the UN amplifies such claims.

The ministry's digital campaign, produced through the Government Advertising Agency, will focus on the United States and target journalists, diplomats, and decision-makers, aiming the direct them to the sources presented on the website.

The campaign will be accompanied by a new website the ministry launched after extensive research and data collection. The website brings together, in an accessible format, the ministry's work examining UN publications and the conduct of UN bodies since the October 7 attack.

According to the ministry, the website presents a broad picture of what it describes as a mechanism of bias against Israel and a system of falsehoods: information presented without sufficient context, claims that gain an authoritative status once they appear in UN publications, and the UN's subsequent amplification of those publications, which the ministry says strengthens misleading narratives.

The website compiles a large volume of information and enables journalists, diplomats, researchers, and decision-makers to follow six interconnected areas and examine the sources behind the findings.

Its launch will be accompanied by a campaign timed to coincide with international attention focused on the UN General Assembly in New York. The campaign videos will present issues examined on the website and direct viewers to the publications and sources cited there.

Site details UN information manipulation, toxic culture, manufactured narratives

The website is divided into six main sections.

The first, "Information manipulation by UN actors," details what the ministry describes as the adoption and dissemination of claims by UN officials, statistical distortions, and the omission of context considered essential to understanding the data. The website alleges that professional definitions were changed and statistical indicators manipulated in order to reach predetermined conclusions before they had been factually examined on the ground, particularly regarding claims of "starvation" and "genocide."

The second section, "Toxic institutional culture," focuses on what the ministry describes as language, statements, and patterns of conduct within the UN that allow one-sided positions against Israel to become embedded in the organization.

A third section, titled "The famine that wasn't," examines the data, forecasts, and messaging through which claims of famine in Gaza received institutional legitimacy and global attention. The ministry claims that this section demonstrates that the UN's presentation of the data is far removed from conditions on the ground.

The fourth section, "UNRWA compromised," compiles findings and allegations concerning Hamas infiltration of the agency and the conduct of UNRWA's leadership following related disclosures. It presents what the ministry describes as intelligence evidence indicating extensive infiltration of UNRWA by Hamas operatives, which it says involves at least 12% of the agency's employees in the Gaza Strip, alongside the discovery of terrorist infrastructure beneath UNRWA headquarters and facilities.

A fifth section, "Manufacturing a genocide narrative," examines how some of the gravest accusations against Israel were formulated and disseminated, as well as what the ministry describes as the false basis presented in support of them.

The final section, "Self-reinforcing ecosystem," tracks the way a claim passes between different actors and publications before returning to international discourse carrying an additional stamp of authority, even when its original source has not been independently verified again.

The website also seeks to expose what it calls a process of "propaganda laundering," described as a three-stage mechanism in which unsubstantiated data originating from Hamas is cited by UN agencies, such as OCHA, stripped of reference to its original source, and then disseminated to the public and international legal bodies as "verified UN facts."

The main findings highlighted in the campaign include allegations of internal silencing and persecution. The ministry says it documented pressure and harassment directed at individuals who sought to maintain what they considered factual accuracy, while those who adopted anti-Israel narratives were allegedly rewarded and promoted.

"For far too long, the world has treated the UN's stamp as a substitute for fact-checking. This website exposes how the poison machine against Israel works: A narrative enters the system, receives institutional authority, is quoted again and again, and influences the positions of governments, media outlets, and the public. Since October 7, the cost of this bias has been particularly high. Anyone can examine what lies behind the headlines," Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Minister Amichai Chikli said.

UN officials claim they were pressured to condemn Israel

Testimony and quotations from senior officials and experts who worked within UN mechanisms are presented as evidence of what the campaign describes as a culture of silencing, pressure, and data manipulation.

World Health Organization representative Dr. Michel Thieren is quoted as saying: "The terms 'genocide' and 'famine' were thrown around from the very beginning. The crimes were defined in advance, and then the organizations tried to prove them. For me, this is completely abnormal."

Alice Wairimu Nderitu, the UN's former special adviser on the prevention of genocide, is quoted as saying: "I was bullied and harassed every day... This never happened in any other war. Not in Ukraine, not in Sudan, not in Myanmar. The focus was always on Israel... By taking one side and condemning it every day, you completely lose the purpose for which the UN was established."

The campaign states that Nderitu refused to define the fighting as "genocide" without an authoritative legal determination, and that her UN contract was subsequently not renewed.

UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Dr. Alice Edwards is quoted as describing heavy pressure from UN colleagues aimed at preventing her from publishing an official letter documenting Hamas's crimes on October 7.

"There was a campaign to prevent the letter from being published. It was weeks of bullying and intimidation," she said.

Former UN sanctions coordinator Edmund Fitton-Brown is quoted as saying: "The reverence for the UN allows weak evidence, activists' assumptions, and ideological leanings to launder themselves and become mainstream and accepted opinion."

'The UN rewrites the truth'

The campaign's video series visually depicts what the ministry describes as the manipulation of information and systematic falsification. In the videos, hands working inside what is portrayed as UN headquarters cut up and reassemble headlines from major newspapers. Headlines such as "Humanitarian aid stolen by Hamas," "Stop Hamas terror," and "Hamas harms civilians" are physically altered so that the word "Hamas" is replaced with "Israel."

The campaign concludes with the message: "The UN rewrites the truth."

"The website is an information source that brings everything together, unlike individual publications that do not create the same effect. When you examine where the information came from and how it passes between the different actors, you understand the mechanism," Hadas Maimon, head of the Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Ministry's senior public diplomacy division, said.