When UN Secretary-General António Guterres claims that the United States prioritizes its power over international law, he is not defending justice. He is projecting the moral collapse of the institution he leads.
The question the world must now ask is not about American power, but about Guterres’s abuse of power. Under his leadership, “international law” has been distorted into a political weapon – one used obsessively against Israel, while terrorist organizations and authoritarian regimes are excused, enabled, or elevated. That is not neutrality. It is not law. And coming from the head of the United Nations, it is a disgrace.
Let’s examine the facts.
The UN General Assembly has passed more resolutions condemning Israel than all other countries combined, including Iran, North Korea, Syria, China, Russia, and Venezuela. This is not rhetoric; it is a matter of public record repeated year after year. No other democracy, and no other nation under constant terrorist attack, is treated this way.
The UN Human Rights Council has maintained a permanent agenda item – Item 7 – dedicated solely to Israel. No other country is singled out in this manner. This alone should disqualify the council from being taken seriously as a human rights body.
Under the UN system, Iran – a regime that executes dissidents, tortures prisoners, oppresses women, arms Hezbollah and Hamas, and openly calls for Israel’s destruction – has been entrusted with leadership roles, including chairing UN forums related to human rights. That is not hypocrisy; it is moral obscenity.
At the same time, Hamas – a US- and EU-designated terrorist organization that murders civilians, kidnaps children, uses hospitals and schools as military infrastructure, and fires rockets indiscriminately at population centers – is repeatedly sanitized in UN language as a “party to the conflict,” while Israel’s right to self-defense is questioned, constrained, and condemned.
This inversion is not accidental. It is systemic.
Exposing the UN’s moral inversion
Guterres has not merely presided over this corruption; he has normalized it, defended it, and amplified it. In doing so, he has used his position to advance an ideological agenda that singles out the Jewish state for delegitimization while shielding those who commit the most egregious human rights violations.
Anti-Zionist obsession at the United Nations has become indistinguishable from antisemitism in practice. When the world’s only Jewish state is uniquely targeted, denied the right of self-defense, and subjected to standards applied to no other nation, the conclusion is unavoidable.
Israel does not wage war against civilians. Hamas does.
Israel builds bomb shelters. Hamas builds tunnels under children’s bedrooms.
Israel warns civilians to evacuate. Hamas forces them to stay.
Any legal framework that erases these distinctions is not international law; it is propaganda.
International law was meant to restrain barbarism, not protect it; to defend human life, not terror infrastructure; to uphold truth, not political theater.
By weaponizing international law against Israel and tolerating terror in the name of false balance, Guterres has disgraced the office he holds and accelerated the United Nations’s descent into irrelevance.
The world deserves better.
The victims of terrorism deserve better.
And the Jewish people, who know all too well where institutionalized bias can lead, deserve better.
History will remember who stood for justice, and who turned law into a tool of moral inversion.
The writer is the founder and CEO of the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce.