Waltz calls UN a 'cesspool for antisemitism' as Trump administration pushes major reforms

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz is calling for sweeping betterment astatine the satellite body, placing the combat against antisemitism astatine the apical of the docket arsenic the Trump medication pushes for changes crossed the institution.

In an exclusive on-camera interview, Waltz argued that confronting antisemitism should beryllium a cardinal pillar of immoderate overhaul of the U.N., alongside a broader instrumentality to what helium described arsenic the organization’s halfway ngo of bid and security.

"The U.N. has an atrocious past and grounds erstwhile it comes to antisemitism. Number one, it's a cesspool for antisemitism successful galore ways," Waltz said. "This medication is determined to combat it."

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U.S Ambassador to United Nations Michael Waltz speaks with Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon earlier a gathering of the United Nations Security Council to see a U.S. connection for a U.N. mandate to found an planetary stabilization unit successful Gaza, astatine U.N. office successful New York City, Nov. 17, 2025.  (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)

He framed the contented arsenic some urgent and historic, linking rising planetary antisemitism and the aftermath of the Oct. 7 Hamas violent attacks to what helium said indispensable beryllium a renewed committedness wrong planetary institutions.

"We person to unrecorded up to the mantra of ne'er again," Waltz said. "As we spot antisemitism connected the emergence astir the world… aft October 7th, successful particular, we person to unrecorded up to that mantra."

Waltz pointed to Holocaust remembrance and subsister grounds arsenic indispensable tools successful combating denial and humanities revisionism, saying acquisition indispensable beryllium cardinal to immoderate U.N. response.

"It's astir education. It's astir warring backmost connected these ridiculous denials of the Holocaust," helium said. "But astir importantly, portion we inactive person them, it's astir proceeding from the survivors and proceeding their idiosyncratic stories."

Memorials astatine the tract of the Oct. 7 Hamas panic onslaught connected the Supernova euphony festival adjacent Kibbutz Re'im, Israel, connected Monday, May 27, 2024. (Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg via Getty Images )

He added that U.N. forums should elevate subsister grounds alternatively than governmental messaging.

"My proposal to the U.N. is, get the diplomats and the politicians retired of the way, let's conscionable perceive from the survivors due to the fact that their stories are compelling, they are tragic, they request to beryllium heard and documented, and they surely can't ever beryllium denied," Waltz said.

The ambassador’s remarks travel arsenic the medication calls for broader structural betterment astatine the United Nations, including changes to however it approaches improvement aid, humanitarian operations and leadership.

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A presumption of the United Nations Headquarters gathering successful New York City, United States connected July 16, 2024. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Waltz said Washington wants to spot a much focused instauration centered connected struggle prevention and peacekeeping, with little reliance connected accepted assistance frameworks.

"I see, and I deliberation what the president sees, is simply a overmuch much focused U.N. that we person taken backmost to the basics of promoting bid and information astir the satellite and enforcing bid erstwhile struggle breaks retired done its peacekeeping forces," helium said.

The propulsion for betterment comes against the backdrop of longstanding disapproval from U.S. officials and watchdog groups implicit however Israel is treated wrong the U.N. strategy and concerns astir antisemitism linked to immoderate U.N.-affiliated bodies.

UNRWA, the U.N. bureau liable for Palestinian refugees, has faced mounting scrutiny successful caller years. Reports by acquisition monitoring organizations documented contented successful materials utilized successful UNRWA-linked classrooms that delegitimizes Israel oregon includes antisemitic themes.

Media investigations aft Oct. 7 further intensified attraction connected the agency, with allegations involving unit and militant ties triggering donor freezes and interior probes.

An autarkic reappraisal commissioned by the United Nations acknowledged neutrality challenges and recommended stronger oversight and vetting mechanisms.

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Photos released by the Israeli Defense Force amusement 3 individuals that the Israeli subject claims are Hamas terrorists wrong an UNRWA compound successful Rafah. (IDF)

Beyond UNRWA, critics person pointed to structural patterns crossed the U.N. system. Israel remains the lone state assigned a imperishable docket point astatine the U.N. Human Rights Council, mandating treatment astatine each session.

At the General Assembly, Israel has often been the taxable of much country-specific resolutions than immoderate different authorities successful galore yearly sessions.

Successive U.S. administrations person described that absorption arsenic disproportionate.

U.N. officials cull the characterization of organization antisemitism, arguing that scrutiny reflects the standard and duration of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle and humanitarian concerns, and pointing to reforms underway wrong agencies including UNRWA.

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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz raises his manus to ballot successful favour of a draught solution authorizing an International Stabilization Force successful Gaza connected Nov. 17, 2025. (Adam Gray/Getty)

Waltz said confronting antisemitism indispensable stay a precedence arsenic the U.N. prepares for enactment changes and debates implicit its aboriginal direction. He placed combating antisemitism wrong that broader betterment push, alongside different argumentation priorities and aboriginal enactment decisions astatine the satellite body.

"So those are conscionable immoderate of the things successful summation to… taking connected antisemitism… getting… good, beardown enactment successful the U.N. going guardant that we anticipation to get done during our clip here."