Another annual UN General Assembly session sees the customary criticism of Israel by international leaders who neglect actual genocides while promoting defamatory claims against Israel. The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, and others of his ilk distinctly characterized Israel as the genocidal capital of the world.

¹In his concluding UN speech on September 23, 2026, he once again focused on Israel and the alleged “genocide” in Gaza and the West Bank. Guterres said it was the worst he had seen during his tenure as Secretary-General. Guterres might benefit from a renewed education in truth, especially regarding genocides, mass murders, and destruction.

The Director of UN Watch, Hillel Neuer, offers a perspective on Guterres’s accusations and highlights the evident bias directed at Israel. ²In a September 23, 2026, interview with ILTV’s Caleb Ben-David, he reiterated that Guterres and, to some extent, the UN, seem to have short memories and fail to mention atrocities in places like Sudan, Syria, Yemen, Ethiopia, Congo, and so many other countries.

Gitnux, an independent statistical research company, provides interesting statistics on global political violence and deaths spanning decades or just a few years. In their ³2026 report on political violence statistics, the number of deaths from civil wars in Syria, Ethiopia, DR Congo, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen is staggering. Guterres and the other UN global speakers who defamed Israel must have missed the “worst” while purposely concentrating on the Gaza and West Bank genocide narrative. To refresh their memories, here are some eye-opening ³statistics:

Syrian Civil War (2011-2023) 614,000 deaths

Ethiopia (2020-2022) 600,000 deaths

Somalia (1991-2023) 500,000 deaths

DR Congo (since 1996) 6.9 million deaths

Yemen (2014-2024) 377,000 deaths

Nigeria’s Boko Haram has caused 350,000 deaths to date

South Sudan (2013-2020) 383,000 deaths

Mexico’s Cartel (since 2006) 400,000 deaths

North Korea (since 1990) 400,000 deaths, 120,000 detainees

China (since 2017) 1 million detained Uyghurs

Such devastating numbers should prompt the UN to focus on other parts of the world where genocide is occurring rather than on Israel, which responded to a pogrom on October 7, 2023, and still has to respond to decades of terrorist attacks against its population by Hamas, its sympathizers, and Hezbollah. It should be noted that neither Gaza nor the West Bank was included in this report.

Although Guterres’s remarks were distinctly provocative, if not blatantly ignorant, none were more ignorant than ⁴France’s Macron’s remarks that Hamas has never struck the West Bank. This buffoon must not have read any newspapers, because on Sunday, September 20, the eve of Yom Kippur, a Palestinian gunman and terrorist shot and killed Netanel Shukrun, an Israeli settler with six kids, and wait for it, a........

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