When more than a hundred diplomats streamed out of the United Nations General Assembly as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the podium, the spectacle confirmed what patriotic Americans have long suspected: the UN no longer functions as a neutral arbiter, it functions as an echo chamber for anti-Western sentiment. The walkout was a dramatic rebuke of biased rhetoric aimed at Israel and a reminder that our diplomats are often presiding over a forum of bad faith theatrics rather than honest, security-focused diplomacy.
Watching the spectacle unfold in New York, any fair-minded citizen should be outraged that an institution founded to preserve peace has become a platform for political grandstanding and selective moral outrage. Western recognitions of a Palestinian state and the chorus of condemnation directed at Israel only underscore how the UN has drifted from its original purpose and now rewards grievance politics over truth. This inversion of values corrodes international law and leaves our closest allies exposed to institutionalized hostility.
That is why Alan Dershowitz’s blunt call for the United States to get out of the United Nations is not mere hyperbole — it is a sober recommendation born of frustration with decades of institutional bias. Dershowitz, a fierce defender of the rule of law and of Israel, told listeners that it may be time to throw the UN out of the United States and end our costly membership if the body refuses to act impartially. Conservatives who love America and believe in sovereignty should take that argument seriously rather than sneer at it as radicalism.
This is not just academic chest-thumping: recent American administrations have already begun pulling back from UN-affiliated agencies that proved hostile or useless to American interests, and the conversation over defunding or disengaging is mainstream conservative policy now. The Trump administration’s withdrawals and funding cuts to bodies like WHO and others showed that Washington can and should stop pouring cash into institutions that turn on us in moments of geopolitical strain. If the UN will not reform, then withdrawing U.S. support and influence is a legitimate, strategic option to protect our interests and our allies.
Practical conservatives should push for an orderly, principled disentanglement rather than a chaotic abandonment: immediate audits of American contributions, congressional hearings on UN bias, and redirecting saved funds to defense, humanitarian aid administered directly to vetted partners, and bolstering Israel’s security. We can keep open channels for the diplomacy that matters without subsidizing an institution that too often behaves like an adversary. The choice isn’t isolationism — it’s sovereignty and smart, American-first foreign policy.
Hardworking Americans deserve leaders who put our nation and our friends first, not bureaucrats in New York who lecture our country and enable our enemies. If the United Nations has become a vehicle for anti-American and anti-Israel posturing, then patriots must demand accountability and, if necessary, divorce. It’s time for Congress and the president to stop pretending that business as usual at the UN serves American interests, and to act like the proud, independent republic our founders intended.
