U.N. Unleashes Holocaust Revisionism Before Yom HaShoah

As Israel and Jewish communities worldwide prepare to observe Yom HaShoah on April 24th, the United Nations faces criticism for its handling of Holocaust remembrance.

The U.N.’s recent actions, including a Yom HaShoah event and a new exhibit, have raised alarms over apparent efforts to disconnect the Holocaust from Israel and dilute its historical significance.

On April 21, 2025, the U.N. Department of Global Communications hosted a Yom HaShoah commemoration at its New York headquarters without inviting Israeli representatives. Israel, which established the remembrance day in 1955, was notably absent from the event and entirely unmentioned.

A new U.N. “Holocaust” exhibit outside the Security Council chamber further omits references to Israel, even in sections addressing the Holocaust’s aftermath and remembrance.

Positioned next to an exhibit titled “The United Nations and the Question of Palestine,” it appears to draw parallels between the Jewish experience during the Holocaust and Palestinian narratives—a comparison that is dramatically misleading.

The exhibit also replaces iconic images, such as Buchenwald survivors or a Jewish boy facing a Nazi rifle, with generic slideshows emphasizing “hatred and prejudice” broadly.

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2020, a Roma speaker was invited to speak to the General Assembly and stated that “It is time now, 75 years since the ending of the Second World War…that the very definition of the Holocaust is corrected.”

Thus, according to the U.N. permanent exhibit: “the Holocaust was the state-sponsored, ideologically-driven persecution and murder of six million Jews across Europe and half a million Romas and Sinti by Nazi Germany (1933-1945) and other racist states. Nazi ideology built upon preexisting antisemitism and antigypsyism.”

Fast forward to 2025, and the U.N. now defines the Holocaust as the persecution of six million Jews and half a million Roma and Sinti, a shift from Yad Vashem’s definition, which emphasizes the “unprecedented genocide” targeting Jews specifically.

These changes align with a broader U.N. pattern, including past comparisons of Israeli policies to Nazi actions and claims of a “Palestinian Holocaust.” Such rhetoric, deemed antisemitic by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, undermines the Holocaust’s unique historical weight.

Historical Anti-Israel Bias

The U.N.’s history of antisemitism is closely tied to its treatment of Israel.

In 1975, the General Assembly passed Resolution 3379, declaring Zionism “a form of racism and racial discrimination.”

Pushed by the Soviet Union and Arab states, it was repealed in 1991 after the Soviet collapse, but its legacy lingers as a low point, with former Secretary-General Kofi Annan calling it such.

Since then, the U.N. has been accused of disproportionate focus on Israel.
Emergency Special Sessions of the General Assembly have been called solely to condemn Israel, whilst atrocities in Tibet, Rwanda, or Bosnia prompted no such action.

The U.N. Human Rights Council has launched multiple inquiries into alleged Israeli crimes, often ignoring context like Hamas’s actions, while figures like Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese have drawn criticism for comparing Israelis to Nazis and justifying Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack.

Ongoing Challenges

The U.N.’s actions often contradict its stated commitment to fighting antisemitism.
The 2001 Durban conference on racism singled out Israel, with U.S. Congressman Tom Lantos, a Holocaust survivor, calling it a “sickening display of hate for Jews.”

UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, has been exposed for distributing antisemitic educational materials and inciting violence against Israel.

Groups calling out the UN, such as UN Watch, have highlighted several incidents, like antisemitic booklets distributed at the U.N. Human Rights Council in 2023, glorifying terrorism.

Conclusion

As Yom HaShoah approaches, the U.N.’s actions continue to cast a shadow over efforts to honor the six million Jewish victims and reinforce the lessons of “never again.”

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