Israeli Ambassador Gilad Erdan wears yellow Star of David to UN Security Council
The diplomat wore the symbol that the Nazis used to identify Jews as a gesture of protest against the organization's silence after the Hamas attacks.
Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, wore a yellow Star of David at the UN Security Council on Monday. The diplomat wore the symbol that the Nazis used to identify Jews as a gesture of protest against the organization's silence after the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7.
Erdan began his speech by comparing the terrorist attack against Israel with what happened when Jewish people were attacked by the Nazis. The Israeli ambassador claimed that the fact that the organization did not condemn the "atrocities" by Hamas showed that many UN representatives had forgotten part of modern history, specifically what happened "in the past 80 years":
He proceeded to take out the yellow Star of David labeled with the motto "Never Again" and placed it on his chest. The rest of his team did the same. At that time, reports Enlace Judío, the diplomat assured that Israel would use this symbol as a reminder of what happened in the Holocaust and that it had been repeated three weeks ago:
UN Secretary General António Guterres justifies the terrorist attack on Israel
Erdan's gesture and words come a few days after UN Secretary General António Guterres justified the terrorist attack on Israel by assuring that it happened due to the "suffocating occupation" that the Palestinian people have experienced for more than 50 years: