I’m not asking this for political effect, I’m just checking on claims.
Elsewhere, someone has made the claim to me that the UN has passed a few resolutions condemning Israel for attacks on Palestinian leaders, but has never passed a resolution condemning Palestine for attacks on Israeli civilians.
A. Is this claim true?
B. Is there more to the story than this claim’s phrasing makes evident?
As far as I know, it’s correct to say that the UN has never passed a resolution specifically for the purpose of condemning Palestinian terrorism against Israelis.
The UN has passed several resolutions (and introduced others that were vetoed) condemning terrorism in general. It has also condemned and “demanded immediate cessation of” Palestinian terrorism in a number of its resolutions about the Middle East (e.g., SC 1397 (2002)).
Insofar as the UN is chiefly about international governance and evaluating the activities of its member nation-states, it can’t “condemn Palestine” in the same way it can condemn Libya or Iraq or Israel, because Palestine isn’t a nation.