# Does the UN ever condemn palestine? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 28, 2004, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-un-ever-condemn-palestine/236885 "2004-03-28T06:47:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-un-ever-condemn-palestine/236885/1 "2004-03-28T06:47:15Z")
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? -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-un-ever-condemn-palestine/236885/2 "2004-03-28T07:24:52Z")
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)](http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2002/sc7326.doc.htm)). 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.