Free Somaliland… From the UN + Repost: “Sharing from Israel”
Like you, when I saw the headline about Israel recognizing Somaliland, my reaction was: “WTF is Somaliland?”
Sure, I had heard of it in passing, but I detest pretending I’m an expert on something the moment it becomes trending. Instead of pulling a (Modern Family) Mitchell, “You never heard of TROGA?” I did a tiny bit of research.
Here is what I found: Somaliland isn’t some chaotic quasi-state, or worse, a hashtag masquerading as a nation. It is a functioning, stable, self-governing democracy in a part of the world where that is rare. It has elections. It has protests over elections. It has its own currency. It has flaws, because it exists in reality, not the dreams of the “antizionists” who refuse to acknowledge child suicide bombers were a real issue.
Somaliland is trying to build something real for its citizens instead of treating them like expendable props. And this angers those who really, really want to use people in distant wars to deflect from their own lives. It angers these losers so much, they responded to calls to recognize a state with every conspiracy they could get dumb people to believe.
The UN, the world’s largest defender of “colonial borders,” was really upset about a state being recognized that doesn’t replace the Jewish state. Which brings me to a great breakdown I saw on the Somaliland recognition meltdown: a LinkedIn post by Mitchell Schneider that directs to his Substack.
Again, for the sake of honesty, I’ll mention that I did not subscribe to Mitchell two month old substack, “Sharing from Israel”. However, the preview I’m sharing below and Mitchell’s daily posts since make it look great. Given access and permission, I’d share the full piece. You absolutely should read his Substack and tell me what I’m missing out on: Somaliland and the UN Meltdown.
presumably Chat GPT generated artwork that accompanied the piece
Somaliland and the UN Meltdown (Preview)
Mitchell Schneider; Dec 30, 2025
Yesterday, the UN Security Council held an emergency session. Not about Iran's nuclear program. Not about North Korea. Not about actual threats to international peace. About Israel recognizing Somaliland as an independent state.
Here's what Somaliland actually is. A functioning democracy that declared independence 34 years ago. Thirty-four years. It holds regular elections. In 2024, the opposition won and there was a peaceful transfer of power. That was one of only 5 such transitions in Africa that year. Freedom House scores it 43 out of 100. It meets every legal criterion for statehood under international law.
Somalia, the country it broke away from, scores 8 out of 100. Eight. It's been in continuous anarchy since 1991.
Israel recognized a democracy that earned recognition through 3 decades of peaceful governance. The UN held an emergency session to condemn it. 21 countries issued condemnations.
Now let me tell you what happened 3 months ago.
On September 21-22, 10 countries announced recognition of "Palestine" in a coordinated wave. The UK, Canada, France, Australia, and 6 others. First time any G7 nation had ever recognized Palestine.
What did they recognize? An entity that has never existed as a state. Gaza is run by Hamas, the terrorist organization that massacred 1,200 people on October 7. The West Bank is run by Mahmoud Abbas, an 89-year-old dictator whose 4-year term expired 16 years ago. No unified government. No defined borders. No capacity to govern. Zero criteria for statehood met.
The UN response? They hosted the summit where 6 countries made their announcements. France and Saudi Arabia co-chaired it. The General Assembly endorsed it 142 to 10. They called it "historic." No emergency session. No condemnations. Celebration.
In 2024, the UN passed 17 country-specific condemnation resolutions. 17 were about Israel. That's 85% of all country-specific condemnations directed at one country.
This isn't peacekeeping. This is obsession. And this Somaliland case is just the latest example of a pattern that's been going on for decades.
I laid out the full case here: https://lnkd.in/dJiTFi2k
If global activism had even ten percent consistency, Somaliland would be celebrated as a rare, fragile success story in a brutal region. Instead, the same people who enthusiastically defend authoritarian theocracies like IRGC, and treat Palestinian political movements as beyond criticism no matter how violently they govern, suddenly become rigid legalists when a relatively stable, comparatively pluralistic Somali state asks to be acknowledged.
Apparently, “self-determination” is sacred… unless the self-determining people are inconvenient to a preferred narrative.
Somaliland’s crime isn’t illegitimacy. Its crime is not bending to the anti-Israel death cult.
Like “Free Tibet”, Somaliland just isn’t fashionable. It isn’t wrapped in the right slogans. It isn’t leveraging the ongoing fraud controversies in Minnesota and seeking donations through social media bots. And so, a place with elections, institutions, and citizens trying to build something functioning gets ignored, while calamities wrapped in revolutionary branding get endless sympathy. Meanwhile, rational people would prefer to live in Somaliland over Somalia.
If the world had consistent standards, the choice would be obvious: support territories that actually try to protect and improve the lives of their people. Recognize functioning realities instead of emotional theatrics. And maybe stop pretending that propping up failed regimes while dismissing working ones is anything close to moral clarity.
Fortunately, whether people like it or hate it, Somaliland and Israel exist.
