US shuns UN’s Nakba Day event over anti-Israel bias

Chris

Administrator
Staff member
US shuns UN’s Nakba Day event over anti-Israel bias
According to Israel’s mission to the UN, the United States was among 45 countries that boycotted the two UN Nakba Day events.
By TOVAH LAZAROFF

The Biden administration confirmed it stayed away from the two events to mark the 75th anniversary of Nakba Day at United Nations headquarters in New York due to anti-Israel bias on the part of the organizers, even though it provides major financial assistance to Palestinian refugees.

The United States “did not attend this event organized by the Committee on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, and we never planned to attend this event,” the spokesman for the US Mission to the UN Nathan Evans said in response to a query by The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.

more........... https://www.jpost.com/international/article-743251
 
Back
Top