The UNs crusade against Israel is fueling the pro-Hamas left

A smirk laid bare the United Nations’ unremitting hostility toward the state of Israel and its people.Last week UN Special Rapporteur Reem Alsalem sat stone-faced and silent as she reluctantly listened to wrenching testimony from Ilana Gritzewsky, a young Israeli woman abducted and viciously raped by Hamas during its Oct.7 atrocities.“Even now, the feeling of being violated and powerless still lingers,” Gritzewsky said, her voice breaking.The Jordanian diplomat — whose mandate is to prevent “violence against women and girls” — let out an exasperated sigh in response.Moments later, Gritzewsky pleaded with her: “Will you look at me?”And Alsalem finally did so, a smirk playing on her lips.Her chilling cruelty can be interpreted in only two ways.Either she believes Gritzewsky was lying, in keeping with the rapporteur’s claim last November that “no independent investigation found that rape took place on the 7th of October.”Or she believes that Gritzewsky and the other Israeli women subjected to grotesque sexual violence and mutilation by those Hamas terrorists got what they deserved.Whatever the answer, Alsalem’s callous demeanor encapsulated the loathing with which UN appointees regard Israel, and their embrace of the wildest assertions made by Palestinian propagandists.Because the problem isn’t Alsalem’s alone: It is institutional and structural.And its impact is not limited to the UN, as the current surge of far-left anti-Zionists in US domestic politics demonstrates.In the last month, the UN’s human rights bureaucracy has stepped up its crusade to convict Israel of the crime of genocide.On June 16 Vanessa Frazier, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, placed the Israel Defense Forces on a blacklist of armed forces that abuse children.That list also includes the Russian Army and ISIS — but not Turkey, despite the horrors inflicted on the Kurds, including children, by its armed forces.Tellin...