António Guterres

UN Secretary-General António Guterres devoted a major part of his General Assembly address to the war in Gaza. He said the scale of death and destruction is unprecedented, criticized settlement expansion, and warned of “ethnic cleansing.”

A new analysis from the Jewish People Policy Institute reviewed more than 1,100 statements by UN Secretary-General António Guterres since 2017, finding Israel is mentioned the most—and more negatively—with the tone intensifying in recent years.