Sometimes the obvious is so obvious that people forget to state it. So let me observe something that happened this week that almost nobody in the Western press thought worth reporting.
The United Nations Human Rights Council maintains a permanent dedicated agenda item for one country on earth. Not for Iran, which executed more than 1,900 of its own people last year and has spent four decades projecting power across the Middle East from Tehran to Beirut to Yemen through militias and proxies. Not for Russia, not for China, not for North Korea. For Israel. The item was created in 2006. Since then, the Council has held repeated special sessions on Israel, far more than on any other country on earth. The first special session ever convened on Iran was only held in January 2026. The item runs three times a year, every session, automatically, no vote required to keep it on the agenda. It’s called Agenda Item 7, and if you want to understand what the Human Rights Council actually is and what it is actually for, Agenda Item 7 tells you everything you need to know.
This week, while this item was in session in Geneva, a Kuwaiti journalist named Jasem Al-Juraid walked to the lectern as a civil society invitee brought to Geneva by UN Watch, the organization that has spent 20 years finding the voices this room was built to keep out, and said the following.
“Mr. Chair, I heard the term ‘colonizers.’ But who are the real colonizers? A Jewish Kingdom ruled in Judea for a thousand years. We, the Arabs, took this land. Who Arabized Egyptians, Phoenicians, Persians and Amazighs? It was us, the Arabs.”
He wasn’t finished.
“So why does the council enshrine a lie by keeping a permanent agenda item on Palestine, while ignoring the indigenous heart of Israel returning home? Let us be clear about who is actually defending our sovereignty. Today, Israel is a fighter for peaceful nations, freeing Gaza from Hamas and saving Iranians from the Islamic Republic. What Israel is doing to the IRGC, stopping a genocidal regime from acquiring nuclear weapons, is a gift to humanity. There are 57 Islamic countries and only one Jewish state. Despite the ongoing hateful desire to eliminate it, Israel has not only survived, it has thrived. I don’t believe in miracles, but this is one.”
“So I ask the UN: when will you end the ritual of condemning Israel? Is it not time, instead, to learn from Israel? How to defeat terror, defend free societies, and pursue peace.”