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Yesterday at 1:41am Israeli Standard Time, UN Watch, a non-proft organization that monitors UN activities, posted a video to its Facebook Page. Alerted to the post, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu took a look. Quickly sharing the clip on his Facebook Page, he thanked the featured speaker. Soon Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs was distributing the except throughout all of its social media channels. Less than 12 hours later, it has drawn almost 4 million views.

The video, inserted just below, is a four minute clip of the US Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikey Haley, speaking at a press conference in New York last Thursday, 16 February. Fresh from her inaugural attendance at a meeting of the UN Security Council, she calls begins by calling it "strange."

The first thing I want to do is talk about what we just saw in there. ...The Security Council is supposed to discuss how to maintain international peace and security. But at our meeting on the Middle East, the discussion was...

...not about Hizballah’s illegal build-up of rockets in Lebanon;

...It was not about the money and weapons Iran provides to terrorists;

...It was not about how we defeat ISIS;

...It was not about how we hold Bashar al-Assad accountable for the slaughter of hundreds and thousands of civilians.

No, instead, the meeting focused on criticizing Israel, the one true democracy in the Middle East. I am new around here, but I understand that’s how the Council has operated, month after month, for decades.

Having taken aim, Haley fires.

I’m here to say the United States will not turn a blind eye to this anymore. I am here to underscore the ironclad support of the United States for Israel. I’m here to emphasize the United States is determined to stand up to the UN’s anti-Israel bias. We will never repeat the terrible mistake of Resolution 2334 and allow one-sided Security Council resolutions to condemn Israel. Instead, we will push for action on the real threats we face in the Middle East.

VIRAL VIDEO CLIP OF US AMB TO UN AT A PRESS CONFERENCE ON 16 FEB 2017. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW

As for Israel and the Palestinians, the UN's "double standards are breathtaking."

We stand for peace. We support a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that is negotiated directly between the two parties, as President Trump reiterated in his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu yesterday. The outrageously biased resolutions from the Security Council and the General Assembly only make peace harder to attain by discouraging one of the parties from going to the negotiating table.

Incredibly, the UN Department of Political Affairs has an entire division devoted to Palestinian affairs. Imagine that. There is no division devoted to illegal missile launches from North Korea. There is no division devoted to the world’s number one state-sponsor of terror, Iran. The prejudiced approach to Israeli-Palestinian issues does the peace process no favors. And it bears no relationship to the reality of the world around us.

The double standards are breathtaking. Just a few days ago, the United States sought unsuccessfully to have the Security Council condemn a terrorist attack to Israel, where the terrorist opened fire on people waiting for a bus and then stabbed others. The Security Council would not hesitate to condemn an attack like that in any other country. But not for Israel. The statement was blocked. And that’s downright shameful.

The UN’s anti-Israel bias ...is long overdue for change. The United States will not hesitate to speak out against these biases in defense of our friend and ally, Israel.

The double standards are breathtaking. Just a few days ago, the United States sought unsuccessfully to have the Security Council condemn a terrorist attack to Israel, where the terrorist opened fire on people waiting for a bus and then stabbed others. The Security Council would not hesitate to condemn an attack like that in any other country. But not for Israel. The statement was blocked. And that’s downright shameful.

Israel exists in a region where others call for its complete destruction and in a world where anti-Semitism is on the rise. These are threats that we should discuss at the United Nations as we continue working toward a comprehensive agreement that would end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

But outside of the UN, there is some good news. Israel’s place in the world is changing. Israel is building up new diplomatic relationships. More and more countries recognize how much Israel contributes to the world. They are recognizing that Israel is a beacon of stability in a troubled region, and that Israel is at the forefront of innovation, entrepreneurship, and technological discovery.

It is the UN’s anti-Israel bias that is long overdue for change. The United States will not hesitate to speak out against these biases in defense of our friend and ally, Israel.

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Brian Schrauger is the Editor-in-Chief of The Jerusalem Journal. He can be contacted at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.