Ami Horowitz

During the course making my movie U.N.Me I have come across countless acts of absurd behavior by the U.N. This week gives us yet another shining example of such farce.

The United Nations recently held an election for its new women's rights group called, unimaginatively, U.N. Women, which...

This week, under the watchful eye of UNIFIL, the United Nations peacekeeping force in Southern Lebanon, there was a fatal border skirmish between the Lebanese Army and the Israeli Defense Forces. This tussle reminds us of one of the great absurdities of the United Nations: Hezbollah, widely known as the...

"Your actions are not only deplorable, but seriously reprehensible... Your action is without precedent and in my opinion seriously embarrassing to yourself."

While this may read like a transcript of a conversation between my high school principal and me, this was in fact a memo written by outgoing chief of...

While Yiddish, the German-Slavic language used by the Jews of old Europe, has all but died out, there is an orphan word that has been adopted by almost every culture in the world: chutzpah. This word, an allusion to one's own shameless and impertinent audacity, is the one...

When I received the call from Raul Niño Zambrano from the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, known internationally as IDFA, asking us if we would screen our film U.N. Me in competition, I was unsure how to receive this news.

See, this is my first...

I have recently completed a movie called U.N. Me - http://www.unmemovie.com - which chronicles my adventures in trying to figure out exactly where the United Nations went wrong in its pursuit of peace and a more prosperous world. Obviously it's a dark comedy.

Although we already wrapped up...

It is becoming increasingly the norm for Internet readers to rely on blogs as a primary source of information. With this new found competition that moves faster and relies less on journalistic objectivity, traditional media outlets have found themselves losing influence. In an effort to mimic the speed and impact...