Danny Danon

The United Nations is in the midst of a profound crisis of legitimacy.

Nothing has more starkly illuminated this institutional decay than recent public comments made by Reem Alsalem, the U.N. special rapporteur on violence against women and girls. The comments were so reckless and so corrosive that they demand a decisive response from Secretary-General António Guterres and the world body he leads.

Earlier this month, Alsalem took to social media to cast doubt on the sexual violence, torture and gender-based crimes that survivors, investigators, journalists, medical personnel and multiple U.N. bodies have documented in connection with the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Her post did not merely misinterpret the evidence. It flatly contradicted i

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