Israel Rejects UN Accusation, Tightens Diplomatic Separation

(SeaPRwire) –   Israeli officials have strongly condemned the United Nations, accusing the global body of adding Israeli entities to a sexual violence blacklist that also counts the terrorist group Hamas among its entries.

“We are done engaging with this UN Secretary-General. Guterres has placed Israel on the same blacklist alongside Hamas, ISIS and the most depraved terrorist organizations across the world. This is a moral disgrace that proves Guterres has lost all credibility entirely,” Israel’s ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon said in a statement shared with Digital.

A spokesperson for Danon confirmed Israel is officially freezing relations with the secretary-general’s office for as long as Antonio Guterres holds the position.

Danon asserted Guterres made the choice to include Israeli entities on a blacklist covering sexual violence in conflict zones, a decision that prompted the freeze of relations with the U.N. Secretary-General’s Office.

“We are a robust democracy. We invited United Nations representatives to travel to Israel to investigate these ridiculous allegations. They chose not to come. They opted to continue their campaign targeting Israel. We already saw lies published in The New York Times, and now we see another lie coming from the U.N.,” Danon said in a video shared with Digital.

“We are done with this Secretary-General,” he concluded.

The United Nations has not confirmed that Israel was added to the sexual violence blacklist. The U.N. also did not respond to an inquiry from Digital.

Digital also contacted The New York Times to request comment on the matter.

The Jerusalem Post was first to report Wednesday night that the Israeli Prison Service will be included on the U.N.’s list of actors that commit sexual violence in conflict zones.

In early May, The New York Times published an opinion piece by writer Nicholas Kristof that accused Israeli prison guards of carrying out institutionalized sexual abuse against Palestinian prisoners. Kristof cited a 2025 U.N. report that labeled the alleged Israeli sexual abuse of Palestinians “standard operating procedures towards Palestinians.”

Israeli officials firmly rejected the core claims of the piece, and accused Kristof and the Times of blood libel, threatening to sue the outlet in American courts.

“In an unfathomable inversion of reality, and through an endless stream of baseless lies, propagandist Nicholas Kristof turns the victim into the accused. Israel -— whose citizens were the victims of the most horrific sexual crimes committed by Hamas on October 7, and whose hostages were later subjected to further sexual abuse -— is portrayed as the guilty party,” the Israel Foreign Ministry wrote in a post on X in response to the Times piece.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry released further comment Thursday on the reported U.N. blacklisting.

“Over the past year, Israel’s Ambassador to the UN and the Israeli delegation held a series of meetings with U.N. representatives and provided documents, data, as well as a detailed response to all the allegations that were raised. Despite this, the U.N. Secretary-General chose to advance a political decision and include Israel alongside Hamas and terrorist organizations,” the foreign ministry wrote in a statement shared with Digital.

“The shameful and absurd U.N. decision to include Israeli entities in the annex to the CRSV report is further proof of the UN’s true nature: a politicized and corrupt organization that has abandoned its founding principles and systematically targets Israel as its primary mission. This decision is yet another example of the UN’s long-standing, institutionalized hostility toward Israel. Today’s decision must be understood in its true context: an attempt to create a fake symmetry between Israel and the real sexual atrocities committed by Hamas. This is its sole motivation. The person behind this farce is Antonio Guterres,” the statement continued.

“This is the same Guterres who sought to ‘contextualize’ the October 7 massacre, who covered up the involvement of UN employees in those atrocities, and who has dragged the UN to its lowest point. Guterres is now exploiting his final months as Secretary-General to fabricate baseless accusations against Israel, completely devoid of any factual merit. Israel has comprehensively, thoroughly, and unequivocally refuted these allegations. Given that António Guterres has chosen to violate every standard of honesty, integrity, and professionalism, Israel has decided to sever all ties with the Secretary-General’s Office and will wait until a new UN Secretary-General is appointed,” the statement concluded.